185. The Day of the Troll by Simon Messingham (read by David Tennant)
Publication: BBC Audio (October 2009), audio / ISBN 978-1-405-67819-3
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
Rating: Buy it
Read: September 2010
Source: Borrowed from a friend
Summary from Amazon:
The story follows the Doctor as he arrives on Earth in the far future. He is horrified to find the planet beset by famine and starvation, and England is a barren wasteland. Scientists are desperately seeding the ground to make the crops grow again, but now it seems that something even worse is happening…
Karl Baring, the owner of research facility The Grange, has been snatched away in the middle of the night. His sister Katy was with him when he vanished, but is now in catatonic shock – so it’s up to the Doctor, with the help of the scientists at The Grange, to investigate. What is lurking under the old bridge, and why is it preying on people? The Doctor must find out, before it strikes again…
Review
I’m probably among the minority when I say that I wasn’t enamored with David Tennant’s Doctor, and that in fact he’s probably my least favorite Doctor ever. Partly that has to do with my dislike for Russell T. Davis’ later episodes and his own fondness for tearing the heart out of his characters and their audience, but partly also it’s because Tennant’s Doctor is way intense and angry and sort of mean. I just prefer my Doctors to be more…er…fun. (Like Matt Smith!) ANYWAY, what I am trying to say is that I went into this book thinking it’s be horrible and depressing and that my whole month would be ruined.
It’s not depressing or horrible and in fact I liked it quite a lot. Continue reading »
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