- Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Dr Who (15 Oct 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0426203852
- ISBN-13: 978-0426203858
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.8 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 246,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A story featuring the further adventures of the time traveller Dr Who, as he journeys through time and space with a variety of companions. This work is based on the television series of the same title.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
#### SPOILERS AHOY!!! ####
I was really enjoying this tale, until the penultimate and ending scenes between Ace and the Doctor and then between the Doctor and Benny. I adore the manipulative 7th Doctor and this tale had bucket loads of it, but with this book, as with the TV episodes towards the end of McCoy's tenure as the Doctor, you also got to understand that a care for Ace's welfare was always in amongst the Doctor's manipulations.
Yes, he was a really bad Gallifreyan in this Book with manipulations galore going on, but when it came down to it, he risked his own life to try and rescue Ace. He needed Jan's help, and he used Jan's love for Ace to get that help, but then Jan would have helped anyway had he known Ace was in trouble - and towards the end of the book Ace used Julian to help her. So is Ace as bad as the Doctor when it comes to manipulation? *shrug* - But this is what I enjoy about reading, the questions that can arise during a story.
The only bad thing I can say about this book, and yet sadly, for me, it is a humungous bad thing, and that is the handling of Ace leaving and Benny joining as the Doctor's companion.
I was severely jarred out of the story, because in this book Benny's joining the Doctor implied that the only motivation behind the Doctor ever risking his life to keep his companions alive is because he doesn't want to be alone, which I think (putting it politely) is complete and utter rubbish.
...And Ace's leaving the Doctor, while understandable, was so rushed that it was painful to read and, in my opinion, unforgiveable.
All in all, for the most part I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but the penultimate and ending scenes I thought were so poorly constructed and executed that they completely spoilt all that had gone on before.
If you were to stop reading before the penultimate and ending scenes, then I'd recommend this book to anyone, but if you want to know how Ace leaves and Benny joins the Dcotor, then I can't in all honesty recommend it at all - Sorry.
:-)
I was really enjoying this tale, until the penultimate and ending scenes between Ace and the Doctor and then between the Doctor and Benny. I adore the manipulative 7th Doctor and this tale had bucket loads of it, but with this book, as with the TV episodes towards the end of McCoy's tenure as the Doctor, you also got to understand that a care for Ace's welfare was always in amongst the Doctor's manipulations.
Yes, he was a really bad Gallifreyan in this Book with manipulations galore going on, but when it came down to it, he risked his own life to try and rescue Ace. He needed Jan's help, and he used Jan's love for Ace to get that help, but then Jan would have helped anyway had he known Ace was in trouble - and towards the end of the book Ace used Julian to help her. So is Ace as bad as the Doctor when it comes to manipulation? *shrug* - But this is what I enjoy about reading, the questions that can arise during a story.
The only bad thing I can say about this book, and yet sadly, for me, it is a humungous bad thing, and that is the handling of Ace leaving and Benny joining as the Doctor's companion.
I was severely jarred out of the story, because in this book Benny's joining the Doctor implied that the only motivation behind the Doctor ever risking his life to keep his companions alive is because he doesn't want to be alone, which I think (putting it politely) is complete and utter rubbish.
...And Ace's leaving the Doctor, while understandable, was so rushed that it was painful to read and, in my opinion, unforgiveable.
All in all, for the most part I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but the penultimate and ending scenes I thought were so poorly constructed and executed that they completely spoilt all that had gone on before.
If you were to stop reading before the penultimate and ending scenes, then I'd recommend this book to anyone, but if you want to know how Ace leaves and Benny joins the Dcotor, then I can't in all honesty recommend it at all - Sorry.
:-)
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Paul Cornell deserves some credit as it is he who first introduced Professor Berniece 'Benny' Summerfield to the world of Doctor Who. Benny and Ace sparked well off one another in their adventures together; the former even meriting her own official spin-off series once the 'New Adventures' range petered out. It has to be said though that 'Love and War' does not represent either The Doctor or Ace's finest hour - the latter becomes involved with Jan, a traveller who has arrived with his friends on the planet 'Heaven', an apparent paradise and resting place for weary wanderers and we see a smitten Ace coming almost to blows with The Doctor who is seemingly opposed to the burgeoning romance - I say it is not their finest hour because of the mawkish and insipid tone throughout and the self-referential portrayal of the characters which fails to develop either one of them in any way.
The story's monsters: 'The Hoothi' have the potential to be memorable but are underused, whilst a fleeting and irrelevant mention of The Doctor's old enemy 'The Rani' and a sub-plot that never really gets going, only serve to hinder the narrative further.
Full marks for bringing us the spunky 'Benny' but little else to inspire or intrigue.
The story's monsters: 'The Hoothi' have the potential to be memorable but are underused, whilst a fleeting and irrelevant mention of The Doctor's old enemy 'The Rani' and a sub-plot that never really gets going, only serve to hinder the narrative further.
Full marks for bringing us the spunky 'Benny' but little else to inspire or intrigue.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
An important piece of Doctor Who history, sort of, as the last on-screen companion of the classic series gets-killed-off-or-does-she? (this isn't a spoiler, honest, it's a question that's asked within the first 20 pages of the book) and the introduction of new companion Benny mark the real beginning of the New Doctor Who Adventures proper.
Revelling in the things that they couldn't do on screen, there's sex, blood, guts, and gore, none of it particularly ground-breaking but the white worm-like spores are a pretty chilling idea. It ties in rather deliberately with ideas harking back to the 7th and even 6th Doctor's on-screen adventures (Dragonfire / Curse of Fenric / Trial of a Time Lord), it's as if they knew that only real fans would be reading...
My criticism would be that McCoy's Doctor and Ace both seem rather out of character. Ace falls in love rather too easily and the Doctor says some extremely un-Doctor-like things, but it's still a worthwhile read.
Revelling in the things that they couldn't do on screen, there's sex, blood, guts, and gore, none of it particularly ground-breaking but the white worm-like spores are a pretty chilling idea. It ties in rather deliberately with ideas harking back to the 7th and even 6th Doctor's on-screen adventures (Dragonfire / Curse of Fenric / Trial of a Time Lord), it's as if they knew that only real fans would be reading...
My criticism would be that McCoy's Doctor and Ace both seem rather out of character. Ace falls in love rather too easily and the Doctor says some extremely un-Doctor-like things, but it's still a worthwhile read.
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