Regan/Meredith, and a book review!
May. 16th, 2011 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charameiRegan and Meredith Book 1 is go! Well, technically it was go a week ago, but since I'm only now getting past the first scene I can pretend to postpone the start date ;)
(I restarted. Again. This time there's no First Steps to get in the way, though... bouncing between politically-savvy, cyncial Regan and optimistic, two-hours-old Snail was doing my head in.)
I'm really feeling the rust that comes from not having started a longfic in two years: working out where I go next feels like an uphill struggle each time. But on the plus side, the characters are still feeling fine:
Ania: I'm not your patient.
Meredith: You threw up on my shoes. That makes you my patient.
The people in my head are awesome.
ALSO. Book review. If I sneak it in here, I can maybe trick my brain into writing one?
Oh, man. This takes me back. I remember when Rose was a likeable character rather than a plot canker and vehicle for angst.
And she certainly is likeable here. There's a mild character inconsistency - I distinctly remember TV!Rose being uncomfortable with children, and she does fine with them here - but given that these books were being written as the show was being filmed, I don't fault Tucker for it. Besides that, and one moment of genre blindness (you're in Wales, travelling with the Doctor and investigating weird things that are happening, Rose: why are you so surprised to find out that aliens are involved?), she acquits herself most admirably. In fact, she's separated from the Doctor for over half the book, accidentally picks up a mini-companion of her own, and does a stand-out job of collecting the evidence they need to make sense of this week's Welsh Apocalypse.
Tucker's writing isn't top-notch, but it's far better than a lot of the Who writers and was rarely invasive. Likewise, the pacing was solid and several of the twists genuinely surprising. It's no Autonomy, but The Nightmare of Black Island is a good, solid read and definitely worth a look.
(I restarted. Again. This time there's no First Steps to get in the way, though... bouncing between politically-savvy, cyncial Regan and optimistic, two-hours-old Snail was doing my head in.)
I'm really feeling the rust that comes from not having started a longfic in two years: working out where I go next feels like an uphill struggle each time. But on the plus side, the characters are still feeling fine:
Ania: I'm not your patient.
Meredith: You threw up on my shoes. That makes you my patient.
The people in my head are awesome.
ALSO. Book review. If I sneak it in here, I can maybe trick my brain into writing one?
Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island (Mike Tucker, Tenth Doctor Adventures)
Oh, man. This takes me back. I remember when Rose was a likeable character rather than a plot canker and vehicle for angst.
And she certainly is likeable here. There's a mild character inconsistency - I distinctly remember TV!Rose being uncomfortable with children, and she does fine with them here - but given that these books were being written as the show was being filmed, I don't fault Tucker for it. Besides that, and one moment of genre blindness (you're in Wales, travelling with the Doctor and investigating weird things that are happening, Rose: why are you so surprised to find out that aliens are involved?), she acquits herself most admirably. In fact, she's separated from the Doctor for over half the book, accidentally picks up a mini-companion of her own, and does a stand-out job of collecting the evidence they need to make sense of this week's Welsh Apocalypse.
Tucker's writing isn't top-notch, but it's far better than a lot of the Who writers and was rarely invasive. Likewise, the pacing was solid and several of the twists genuinely surprising. It's no Autonomy, but The Nightmare of Black Island is a good, solid read and definitely worth a look.