A Flavour of the Book: “Not that she’d caught the Doctor hanging around reading very often; he wasn’t really the sitting type, manic movement was more his kind of thing – she guessed he was waiting for her to tell him the choice… and the instant she did he’d spring into action, pulling levers and pumping pumps and pressing buttons and darting all over the place like he’d got ants in his pants. Fleas on his knees. Eels at his heels.”
The Authortrek View: This is a charming and engaging novel, which fully captures the tone of the new Doctor Who. The book caters for readers of all ages, although those who grew up with the Target novelisations of the original TV series might find the prose to be aimed too much at younger children in places. However, Doctor Who’s original aim was to be educational as well as entertaining, and The Last Dodo fits very much into this frame. Despite the presence of dodos and dinosaurs, this is not a complete blast back into the past, as the ethics of zoology is exactly the kind of theme that Russell T. Davies likes to include in the new series. Jacqueline Rayner’s portrayal of David Tennant’s Doctor is very authentic, and she also manages to capture Martha’s voice too, especially by having Martha narrate part of the story (which can’t have been easy, as Martha’s character must still have been in the process of being formulated when this novel was written). The story is also great, and will doubtlessly entertain the huge majority of the Doctor’s fans.
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