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An underwater massacre makes the Doctor and Ace wonder if one aspect of the legends, the acquatic Krill, might be real after all -- and if so, if they are as deadly as the stories say.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sometimes those the most savage are that way for a reason.,
By Bill Garcia (Tokyofist3@aol.com) (Edison, New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Storm Harvest (Doctor Who Series) (Paperback)
The 7th Doctor and Ace, while on vacation on a peaceful water-world, find themselves in a desparate race of survival with theindestructable bio-weapons, the Krill. But this is a race where the whole planet is at stake, and maybe even the universe. While the Doctor poses as a corporate investigator, and Ace searches for a sacred relic that could end the whole mess, the cannibalistic,war-like Cythosi watch from space, ready to pounce... Military strikes, murderous creatures, a nuclear explosion, and even an approaching hurracane. So many problems that even the Doctor is having trouble keeping up. So in other words, a perfectly normal day. This is Doctor Who with the intensity turned up, and the lights turned off...maybe permanently.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Dark clouds on the horizon,
This review is from: Storm Harvest (Doctor Who Series) (Paperback)
The Doctor takes Ace to the water world of Coralee, intent on having a holiday (and given the previous events in 'Matrix', this seems like a good plan). But there is something under the water, and another something in orbit around the planet, which will together add up to a potentially world-destroying threat...The third consecutive Seventh Doctor and Ace story from the writing partnership of Robert Perry and Mike Tucker, this is a relatively simple but nevertheless effective traditional Doctor Who story. In that I mean a story with a human base (in this case, the holiday resort) under threat from a mysterious menace, the nature of which becomes apparent as the story progresses. The world of Coralee is an effectively realised one - humans and dolphins are the dominant species, and the dolphins are better depicted in a book than they would be on TV. The cooperative nature of the two races in sharing the society seems, to me, quite believable. One of the things that is common in Doctor Who on TV is the buildup of tension until the climax of the story. With the control of events and the periods of time they happen in, this is fairly easy to accomplish (although somewhat undone by video and DVD technology!). With the reader's control over pace in reading a book, the same feeling of claustrophobic fear is not so easily achieved in a novel. For me, this book managed to do that, which is to be commended. And, as one would expect, the portrayal of the Doctor and Ace are very true to their televised versions. Overall, this book has no major defects and gives us a novel that is true to Doctor Who, the TV series, as we know it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
THE SOUND OF ONE WAVE CLAPPING,
This review is from: Storm Harvest (Doctor Who Series) (Paperback)
Following on the heels of THE MATRIX by the same author, we find our hero's on holiday and in danger again. Ultimate weapons, a waterlogged world,intelligent dolphins and underground cities mixed with a juggernaut of a hurricane bearing down on them all... this is one busy book, and when creatures are not attacking the city, and Ace is not on the run, and the Doctor isn't hatching one escape after the next... it does take time to build on the relationship between the Doctor and Ace. Few Doctor Who books do this, and when they do I like to point them out. The Doctor and Ace share both an intelligent and adult relationship here, and it's in these moments that the book shines through the standard (and overly used) plot. For fans of the series, not for first time buyers...
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