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Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord. Thousands of years ago, Time Lords built a Prison for the Kin. They made it utterly impregnable and unreachable. As long as Time Lords existed, the Kin would be trapped forever and the universe would be safe. They had planned for everything . . . everything, that is, other than the Time War and the fall of Gallifrey. Now the Kin are free again and there's only one Time Lord left in the universe who can stop them! Author Neil Gaiman puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space in the eleventh and final story in the bestselling 50th anniversary series!
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11 primary booksDoctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts is a 11-book series with 11 released primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, and Philip Reeve.
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First of all, I just have to say the physical copy of this book is beautiful.
Now, about the stories within it. Below I've ranked them from 1-11 from best to worst.
1.Tenth Doctor: I really enjoyed this one; something about being in a land of stories intrigued me. The dialogue between the Doctor and Martha was enjoyable, although I think it was stated a few too many times how brilliant the Doctor thinks he is.
2. Fifth Doctor: Though there was very little Doctor in this one, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Truth Tellers were an interesting device to hear about and the story flowed well for a short story. I think the fact that it wasn't separated by chapters helped this.
3. Eleventh Doctor: I'm a fan of Neil Gaiman's work, so I knew I would enjoy this one and I did. The villains he created would look great on screen! I loved picturing them in my head, what with all of the different masks that they wore.
4. Third Doctor: I don't know what it was about this one, but I quite enjoyed it. It definitely beat the first two stories.
5. Seventh Doctor: I found this one very interesting; friendly Daleks, who would have thought? It made for a good story.
6. Fourth Doctor: I keep trying to form sentences to describe this one, but my mind just keeps going TREES!!!!! You'll understand if you read it.
7. Ninth Doctor: I was looking forward to this one, as I love the Ninth Doctor. I was disappointed that Rose wasn't the companion, especially as she wasn't in Ten's story either. It wasn't the most spectacular of stories, but it was nice to have some more content with Nine.
8. Second Doctor: I liked the start of the Second Doctor's story, but the ending felt very rushed and my interest drifted.
9. Eighth Doctor: I don't know what it was about this one. It wasn't particularly bad, but it wasn't particularly good either. It was a ‘meh' sort of story.
10. Sixth Doctor: This story was written in first person, and I really don't like first person most of the time. Some stories can make it work, but this was definitely not one of those stories.
11. First Doctor: It's a shame that the first of the stories turned out to be the worst. I didn't like this one much at all. The pacing felt off and even though I've never seen any of his run, from what I've heard, I don't think that the First Doctor would be chuckling to himself about a Harry Potter reference.
Overall, this book offered up some enjoyable light reading and I genuinely enjoyed most of the stories.
The First Doctor is not my favourite at all (granted, I haven't watched all his episodes yet but still, I don't like him) and this story didn't change that.The plot was OK, I didn't care for the references to other doctors or the characters. Well, I did care for one, Aldridge. He seemed really interesting and I actually liked his interactions with the First Doctor.I thought the Epilogue was a nice touch, though.
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