At Childhood's End
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beccaelizabethA Doctor Who novel by Sophie Aldred
I read this in two days and finished it yesterday, but was too tired to write about it then.
I like it. A lot.
It has flashbacks to how Ace left the Doctor, which was sad but plausible, as Ace got fed up of all the manipulation and blowing stuff up and realised rebuilding is a really important part. So she goes and founds a charity with money she accumulated via time travel. And that's just the setup. We see lots of details of her life in very early 2020, age 50, charging around with lots of fast toys and things that go boom.
... the only flaw in *saying* the important part is the rebuilding is that we only stick around for the Doctor Who story bits, with the whoosh and boom. Like, we're told her life is all charity now, but we're shown it is a lot of fast cars and hiding alien tech from Torchwood. Priorities, looking pretty familiar.
But I like Ace's choices. And I like the shiny thing that shows her all possible futures, because I recognise some of those so it's like saying every story and idea from every source is a possible Ace somewhere.
The Doctor and companions are also in this books but I picked it up because of Ace and it is very Ace centered, so.
Ace meets Thirteen and the Doctor swiftly proves who she is. Very minimal gender confusion, maximum picking up their old arguments where they left off, or going silent because it has been Many Years so how do they pick up?
But then Yaz and the Doctor have a talk and the Doctor gets nudged into better words. So maybe 7 couldnt have sorted this out but 13 has learned a bit and might be able to.
I thought all the companions were written well. I'd say they're very in character but some of the TV episodes sort of forget to give them a character? So this is better than some episodes.
I liked what they did with the idea of charity, twisting it. Wicked.
I liked how everything tied in to Ace's past, though it fits in places there weren't necessarily gaps, it makes a good story.
Lots of creepy bits and scary bits and action bits.
I just enjoyed this book.
🌞
I read this in two days and finished it yesterday, but was too tired to write about it then.
I like it. A lot.
It has flashbacks to how Ace left the Doctor, which was sad but plausible, as Ace got fed up of all the manipulation and blowing stuff up and realised rebuilding is a really important part. So she goes and founds a charity with money she accumulated via time travel. And that's just the setup. We see lots of details of her life in very early 2020, age 50, charging around with lots of fast toys and things that go boom.
... the only flaw in *saying* the important part is the rebuilding is that we only stick around for the Doctor Who story bits, with the whoosh and boom. Like, we're told her life is all charity now, but we're shown it is a lot of fast cars and hiding alien tech from Torchwood. Priorities, looking pretty familiar.
But I like Ace's choices. And I like the shiny thing that shows her all possible futures, because I recognise some of those so it's like saying every story and idea from every source is a possible Ace somewhere.
The Doctor and companions are also in this books but I picked it up because of Ace and it is very Ace centered, so.
Ace meets Thirteen and the Doctor swiftly proves who she is. Very minimal gender confusion, maximum picking up their old arguments where they left off, or going silent because it has been Many Years so how do they pick up?
But then Yaz and the Doctor have a talk and the Doctor gets nudged into better words. So maybe 7 couldnt have sorted this out but 13 has learned a bit and might be able to.
I thought all the companions were written well. I'd say they're very in character but some of the TV episodes sort of forget to give them a character? So this is better than some episodes.
I liked what they did with the idea of charity, twisting it. Wicked.
I liked how everything tied in to Ace's past, though it fits in places there weren't necessarily gaps, it makes a good story.
Lots of creepy bits and scary bits and action bits.
I just enjoyed this book.
🌞
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