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Doctor Who: White Darkness
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I’ve finished reading Doctor Who: White Darkness by David A. Mcintee. My review: 3.5/5.
Trigger warnings: Racial slurs, gore and lots of guns use. Also mentions of being buried alive.
After events at Lucifer were a bust, the Doctor is ready for a break. He attempts to take Ace and Benny to Key West, Florida, 1915; but as usual, his aim is…less than stellar. Instead, the group ends up in Haiti, 1915, which may as well be a world away from Florida. The island is ruled by the despotic President Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, but his reign is under threat by General Rosalvo Bobo, the leader of a popular rebellion—nothing new in Haiti, but the timing is unfortunate, as both the Germans and the Americans have a vested interest in the tiny nation. The Doctor and his companions are pulled in when they stumble upon some mutilated bodies and are taken in for questioning from General Etienne, who is loyal to President Sam.
Doctor Who meets zombies meets voodoo priests and World War 1.
I rather enjoyed this book. It was one of the faster-paced Virgin new adventures and after the last few futuristic settings, it was nice to have a proper historical plotline and a part of history that I’m not familiar with and had to do a bit of research on which is very interesting.
David has clearly done his research on the continuous political change of Haiti and has slotted it in nicely to a Doctor Who adventure.
I also loved Benny and Ace in this and how David gave them more to do and how disgusted they were at the racial treatment of 1915 and were not afraid to put men in their place. They kneed a couple in the groin purely for this.
Ace also gets a darker turn in this. After her path she had chosen in Lucifer Rising, we get to see Ace pretending not to care about Benny even though she secretly does and is worried about her when Benny gets kidnapped but when confronted, she hides it away. There is also a huge pivotal moment for Ace towards the end of the book where she actually guns down someone and struggles to cope with how ruthlessly she has become. I think that was a nice touch and not just have Ace being hardened and cold-blooded killer like she thinks she is.
Benny was great in this book and I’m glad we got to see her in a historical setting. I love the fact she got to go to a museum in her past and compare tools in 1915 and in her time in the 26th Century, they would become museum pieces themselves. I also loved the bit after she swam back to shore the first time and had the plastic bag with her to keep the note she made safe about the German drums, the Marines were so confused to know what a plastic bag is.
The Doctor is also a little dark in this one. He uses quite a bit of hypnosis but it’s interesting to see that on the 7th Doctor. I also love the fact that Henri, a character who is obsessed with Tarot card reading symbolises Ace as the knight and the Doctor as Death.
I wonder what Benny is in relation to TAROT cards?
Over-all, a quick and enjoyable read.
Trigger warnings: Racial slurs, gore and lots of guns use. Also mentions of being buried alive.
After events at Lucifer were a bust, the Doctor is ready for a break. He attempts to take Ace and Benny to Key West, Florida, 1915; but as usual, his aim is…less than stellar. Instead, the group ends up in Haiti, 1915, which may as well be a world away from Florida. The island is ruled by the despotic President Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, but his reign is under threat by General Rosalvo Bobo, the leader of a popular rebellion—nothing new in Haiti, but the timing is unfortunate, as both the Germans and the Americans have a vested interest in the tiny nation. The Doctor and his companions are pulled in when they stumble upon some mutilated bodies and are taken in for questioning from General Etienne, who is loyal to President Sam.
Doctor Who meets zombies meets voodoo priests and World War 1.
I rather enjoyed this book. It was one of the faster-paced Virgin new adventures and after the last few futuristic settings, it was nice to have a proper historical plotline and a part of history that I’m not familiar with and had to do a bit of research on which is very interesting.
David has clearly done his research on the continuous political change of Haiti and has slotted it in nicely to a Doctor Who adventure.
I also loved Benny and Ace in this and how David gave them more to do and how disgusted they were at the racial treatment of 1915 and were not afraid to put men in their place. They kneed a couple in the groin purely for this.
Ace also gets a darker turn in this. After her path she had chosen in Lucifer Rising, we get to see Ace pretending not to care about Benny even though she secretly does and is worried about her when Benny gets kidnapped but when confronted, she hides it away. There is also a huge pivotal moment for Ace towards the end of the book where she actually guns down someone and struggles to cope with how ruthlessly she has become. I think that was a nice touch and not just have Ace being hardened and cold-blooded killer like she thinks she is.
Benny was great in this book and I’m glad we got to see her in a historical setting. I love the fact she got to go to a museum in her past and compare tools in 1915 and in her time in the 26th Century, they would become museum pieces themselves. I also loved the bit after she swam back to shore the first time and had the plastic bag with her to keep the note she made safe about the German drums, the Marines were so confused to know what a plastic bag is.
The Doctor is also a little dark in this one. He uses quite a bit of hypnosis but it’s interesting to see that on the 7th Doctor. I also love the fact that Henri, a character who is obsessed with Tarot card reading symbolises Ace as the knight and the Doctor as Death.
I wonder what Benny is in relation to TAROT cards?
Over-all, a quick and enjoyable read.
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