Enjoyable story, particularly good dialog between the Doctor and Rose. ( )

More a children's book than the old style Doctor Who novels but a good read. Very entertaining. ( )

My book review:
http://ganimede.dreamwidth.org/11685.... ( )

Great story with lots of unexpected twists. ( )

http://nhw.livejournal.com/761346.htm...

This is the first of the Doctor Who adventures to be published following the series' revival in 2005. It has the Ninth Doctor and Rose visiting London in 1924, encountering clockwork robots reminiscent of those that the Tenth Doctor meets in "The Girl in the Fireplace", having adventures around Big Ben not awfully dissimilar from "The Empty Child". At first I thought it was going to be about an anti-communist revolution in a small eastern European country. However, we veered into the realms of sf fairly rapidly. (And some major implausibilities about the rightful heir to the throne of Russia and haemophilia.)

Christopher Eccleston's TV characterisation of the Ninth Doctor was very memorable indeed. Richards, unfortunately, doesn't really carry it through to the page here, and the book could practically have been written with any Doctor-plus-female-companion combination. Also, the title doesn't really make sense; as mentioned above, we get a fair bit of clockwork in the book, but not much about directions of rotation, clockwise or anti-. ( )