Summary:
The Doctor and Rose arrive in an underground vault in Utah in the near future. The vault is filled with alien artifacts. Its billionaire owner, Henry van Statten, even has possession of a living alien creature, a mechanical monster in chains that he has named a Metaltron.
Seeking to help the Metaltron, the Doctor is appalled to find it is in fact a Dalek - one that has survived the horrors of the Time War just as he has. And as the Dalek breaks loose, the Doctor is brought back to the brutality and desperation of his darkest hours spent fighting the creatures of Skaro . . . this time with the Earth as their battlefield.
My Thoughts:
I loved this episode of the show, so I was excited to pick up the novelization of it, hoping to see more characterization of the background characters. I was not disappointed.
This was not just a play-by-play of the script. You learn the background of Henry van Statten, which gives you a small bit of sympathy for who you might call the real evil of the story, but still hate him throughout the book. You learn a bit of the backgrounds of Adam and Goddard, one of the soldiers.
Overall, this was a nice glimpse into some of the characters that you would never see in the episode itself, but it did feel lacking in the pacing. The way the author split the present with the flashbacks was odd and did more to confuse the reader more than anything.
My Rating: 3 stars
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