tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post5712566990896982812..comments2023-06-04T17:53:06.332+01:00Comments on Neil Is The Best Dalek: Doctor Who: The Virgin Novels #34 – Evolution by John PeelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post-24278941610564531582016-11-19T10:52:00.295+00:002016-11-19T10:52:00.295+00:00Back when I read it, I found this book to be a tho...Back when I read it, I found this book to be a thoroughly enjoyable story, and the Victorian seaside community very well portrayed in all its details. The mystery unfolds in part through the Doctor's insights and energetic doings; but also in part through Sarah Jane's gradual journalistic methods. Furthermore, the secondary characters are fun and as realistic as their roles allow them. (Rudyard Kipling is cast not as his wiser older self, but as the callow youth which inspired his later tales of Stalky and Company. Arthur Conan Doyle is a ship's surgeon for a whaler.)<br /><br />However, the characterizations of the Doctor and Sarah Jane are occasionally ridiculous. They frequently threaten violence against people, and Sarah uses her toe to break a man's hand. Perhaps John Peel prefers to write for action heroes and imported these predilections into a Doctor Who novel. If you can ignore those bits (which is hard to do, I admit), the rest of the novel is fantastic.<br />Talliferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08541684895097153972noreply@blogger.com