Heather
It amazed me how much of the feeling of the many years and iterations of Doctor Who was infused into this short collection. The changing styles and subjects across the poems brings up flashes of Classic or Modern Who, various companions or villains or stories, and the illustrations added a fantastic layer that didn't feel at all like an afterthought or something gratuitous. Even the references I didn't personally get were a lovely read, and I broke this up into multiple days reading to prolong my time with it. I will say that I think the two things that made the book for me were the poem honoring Verity Newman, and the lovely bookends of connected poems/stories of the Thousand Year Wood. Even though it's poetry rather than a novel, having those at the end gave it the same wonderful warm sense of contentment and resolution as reading an old favorite. Highly recommend to any and all Whovians.
It amazed me how much of the feeling of the many years and iterations of Doctor Who was infused into this short collection. The changing styles and subjects across the poems brings up flashes of Classic or Modern Who, various companions or villains or stories, and the illustrations added a fantastic layer that didn't feel at all like an afterthought or something gratuitous. Even the references I didn't personally get were a lovely read, and I broke this up into multiple days reading to prolong my time with it. I will say that I think the two things that made the book for me were the poem honoring Verity Newman, and the lovely bookends of connected poems/stories of the Thousand Year Wood. Even though it's poetry rather than a novel, having those at the end gave it the same wonderful warm sense of contentment and resolution as reading an old favorite. Highly recommend to any and all Whovians.