Written
by Mark Michalowski
For
BBC Books
The 10th Doctor promises
Martha Jones a trip to Tiffany's for breakfast. He opens the door first only to
discover that the planet is somewhat swampy, that the TARDIS has landed on a
slippery branch, and as the Doctor slips into the water, so does the Tardis.
Protected by a forcefield, Martha only hears the Doctor call that she's going
to need her wellies. However, she doesn't hear this, until it's too late.
Dressed for Breakfast at
Tiffany's, in an evening dress and gloves up to her elbows, Martha is a little
surprised to be yanked out of the bubble protecting her in the Tardis, and
dragged through the water to a secure lair, where hundreds of otters live and a
tentacled creature threatening to control the Sundayans for its own means.
Wetworld is a story of
slimey swampy creatures, of furry mammals, colonists on the planet Sunday, and
well, the usual sources of chaos that ensue when the Doctor arrives.
It ends rather abruptly.
In fact, so abruptly, I thought I still had a few more pages to go. The Doctor
was in the process of saving the Sundayans from a nuclear threat, when all of a
sudden…strange how books end in such a way, and with all those pages still to
go, full of acknowledgements and other books in the range to read.
I did enjoy the crazy
antics of the Doctor, Martha playing detective rather than Doctor, Martha
talking to the animals, and basically, everything within the story, it just
ended rather quickly, and I may need to return to the last chapter again to be
sure I didn’t miss anything out. Sat down at the folks house, taking a break
from writing, opened the page and went ‘Oh, end of the book.’
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