Luke's Reviews > Doctor Who: Winner Takes All

Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth, and become intrigued by the latest craze, the video game, Death to Mantodeans. Is it as harmless as it seems? And why are so many local people going on holiday and never returning? Meanwhile, on another world, an alien war is raging. The Quevvils need to find a new means of attacking the ruthless Mantodeans.

This is the best one so far! And I feel im the only person who thinks that, as a lot of the other reviews see to not look to fondly on this story, which I do understand peoples gripes, but for me this is everything that Doctor Who should be FUN! It's Sci-fi, it doesn't need to be serious, giant porcupines that create a video game for humans to play, so they can fight there war for them against the Mantodeans, giant praying mantis. It's fantastic, the Doctor is full of jokes and sass and just badass at times, and this story gets dark! At times really dark! And I've always thought that the book should do what they can't do on the tv show, and this book finally breaches that gap and keeps it going. As well as being silly and lighthearted to bring the mood back up after those dark moments. I would say my biggest gripe with this story, is where I agree with others, that this is a mikey centered story and I wasn't a huge fan of mikey in the first series, he was just annoying, but here I will admit he somewhat redeems himself, but still mikey is mikey. But don't let that put you off, it's just me being picky, if you want something fun, silly and down right Doctor Who, then this is the book for you.

5/5 Stars GoodReads ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌟

100/100 Quevvil tingles 🦔🦔