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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?
Another good solid 11th Doctor story. This here writer fella is meant to be one of the top DW authors so perhaps that should be expected.
Like everyone else I adored 'Blink' and the Weeping Angels seemed like a fabulous invention but I'm not convinced they still work though. I wonder if they would have been better off left as a one off villain or maybe twice with the 'Time of the Angels' / 'Flesh and Stone' two parter.
Here the Doctor is chasing after a man sent back into his own timeline in order to save his much missed wife which would then cause a paradox upon which the Angels can feed.
It is a corking read, full of Doctor silliness, Doctor technobabble & Doctor emotion and there are some great lines but, and it's a fairly sizable but, the Angels just don't really work. They're so lacking in personality that it's hard to believe they can scheme and plot to the extent we are expected to believe they have.
With a slightly more adult theme than has often been the case with these new series books this was one that offered a chance to get a slightly more mature read but still one with that fairly daft Doctor Who premise very much at it's core.
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