The Forever Trap

A smooth talking and not entirely honest sales-hologram invades the TARDIS and tricks Donna Noble into a sales contract for a luxury apartment complex. If location is all three of the most important things in real estate, then the Edifice doesn’t have any of them. It’s somewhere in the midst of Outer Space, without any means of transportation out. Not only that, new tenants keep arriving without any provision for what they need to survive. Aquatic life forms are dumped on the carpet with nothing for their gills to breathe. Some of the more aggressive tenants are fighting for control of the Edifice, and no one seems to be in charge. Fortunately, there is a Doctor in the house.

Catherine Tate is such a gifted actress and mimic that show more her single voice presentation sounds like the highest quality full-cast radio drama. As the actress who plays Donna in the television series, it is little wonder that she does a good job voicing Donna’s part. The wonderful part of her performance is how closely she has captured fellow actor David Tennant's speech patterns when she reads the Doctor’s part. The sound effects are also excellent, and Dan Abnett’s original story even has a cliffhanger between discs one and two. Everyone involved with this project is to be commended. show less

The Doctor and Donna are kidnapped by what seems like an overly eager condo-seller, but ends up being something completely different and the pair need to find their way around the block of flats from hell. This is quite an eerie little tale and all the characters are very much like those who appear in the TV-series. The narrator is Catherine Tate and she is as perfect a reader of this as she is at playing Donna.

This would have made an excellent "Monster of the Week" episode during the David Tennant/Catherine Tate era. Lots of great dialogue, and having Catherine Tate read the book as both Donna and the Doctor was perfect.

Probably the best Doctor Who book I've read yet, and that's saying something cause I cant stand Donna Noble.

The Doctor and Donna are trapped in an apartment complex with the oddest of neighbors.

This one was kind of fun, although these sorts of stories always lack a certain amount of tension since we know that the main characters are in no real danger. Catherine Tate is an entertaining reader; I've noticed that I prefer the books read by voices from the shows.

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This is the last of the Tenth Doctor era audiobooks that I've got to (though only the second produced), and it's good to finish on a high note. Catherine Tate is the narrator, beautifully carrying off Donna and also the Tennant Doctor, in a plot that beings rather like the later TV story The God Complex, with a bunch of characters from different places yanked together unexpectedly in one big building, but takes off in quite a different direction, both funny and serious, with some very neat ideas (the spamming AI at the beginning is just the start). Dead Air is still my favourite Tenth Doctor audiobook, but this comes a close second.

Most enjoyable.