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| Original Title: | Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel |
| ISBN: | 1849902348 (ISBN13: 9781849902342) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Doctor Who: New |
| Series: | Adventures #47, Doctor Who #3 |
| Characters: | The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, Weeping Angels, The Doctor |
Jonathan Morris
Hardcover | Pages: 237 pages Rating: 4.1 | 2666 Users | 334 Reviews
Details Regarding Books Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures #47)
| Title | : | Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures #47) |
| Author | : | Jonathan Morris |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 237 pages |
| Published | : | June 23rd 2011 by BBC Books |
| Categories | : | Media Tie In. Doctor Who. Science Fiction. Fiction. Time Travel. Fantasy |
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"The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn’t want to live there." In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. He receives a battered envelope, posted eight years ago, containing a set of instructions with a simple message: "You can save her." As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it’s up to the Doctor, Amy and Rory to save the whole world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using Mark himself as a weapon to change history. Will the doctor stop mark or will the angels feast?Rating Regarding Books Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures #47)
Ratings: 4.1 From 2666 Users | 334 ReviewsEvaluation Regarding Books Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures #47)
Weeping Angels making us weep Great story but had some kind of sad parts. The weeping angels show no mercy, but that's what makes them great predators, right? That's all I'll say, no spoilers.Eight years after his wife's death, Mark Whitaker receives a letter from his future self, giving him instructions on how to save her. But why are the Weeping Angels following Mark? And can The Doctor, with Rory and Amy in tow, stop the Weeping Angels from rewriting history? Of course he can! He's the Doctor...I got this from Netgalley.I have a few Doctor Who tie-in novels under my belt at this stage in the game and few of them really manage to capture the feel of a Doctor Who episode. Touched By
This was the first Doctor Who media tie-in book I've read, despite being a fan of the show for years now. The knock against them (or at least what I've been told) is that they are written in a "younger readers" tone, and therefore only hold interest to the show's younger fans. But since I love the Weeping Angels and could tell that I could probably finish this is about a day or two, I decided to give this one a whirl. It certainly wasn't bad, and I didn't really get the "young readers" vibe from
This book is a story of love, loss, suspense and action with some timey-whimey shenanigans thrown into the mix, as well.What's especially interesting is how many loops, twists and turns there are in this book. For starters, the woman at the start of the book - Rebecca Whitaker - is actually in a loving relationship with her husband, Mark. It's a nice change of pace to have them be madly in love with each other while still having their up's and downs.It's very realistic.Another thing is that Mark
The weeping angels are my favourite Doctor Who villains so the bar was set quite high for this book. The author captured Rory, Amy and the Doctors personalities very well and the plot was good. I just felt slightly like it was dragged out a bit and overly spelt out. Would have worked better in a book half the length. However an action packed, fun read for Whovians.
In the last review I wrote for a BBC Doctor Who novel, I pointed out they were written for a young audience. Which is a bit ironic, considering the content of this one.There are Weeping Angels who throw a man back in time, to a point before his wife is killed. He and the TARDIS crew spent the bulk of the novel making sure his younger self (and history) stay on track. It's a surprisingly mature tale, and given the inevitable attempt to stave off the wife's death, a surprisingly un-maudlin one.
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1892674.html[return][return]Yet another story of car crashes and mixed-up timelines (I have lost count of how often this has come up in New Who but it's at least twice on the main show plus Sarah Jane Smith's parents), but with the excellent addition of the Weeping Angels, who both create the possibility of temporal paradox and hope to feed off it. Morris does a beautiful job of conveying the history of the relationship between the car crash victim and her husband
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