Legacy of the Daleks (Doctor Who Series)
by John Peel
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Author: John PeelEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-05
ISBN: 0563405740
Number of pages: 245
Publisher: BBC Books
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Summary: 1 Stars
Legacy of the Daleks is not really a bad book as such it's just... dull. Predictable from the start, the book just re-treads past glories with obvious sequences lifted from TV stories such as The Dalek Invasion of Earth (to which this book is a sequel), Power of the Daleks and Genesis of the Daleks. The Daleks are not the only returning foe on show, and while revealing the other would techically count as a spoiler as he isn't properly revealed until over half way through the book, his identity is obvious within the first chapter to anyone with any knowledge of foreign languages. Susan reappears, still married to David Campbell as she was at the end of Dalek Invasion of Earth, but she is badly mis-used, and her final scenes are frankly unbelievable in the fact that she simply makes assumptions about who has or hasn't died without bothering to go back and check. John Peel's books have never been among my favourites, being in my considered opinion mostly un-original and written in a style so basic it would make even Terrance Dicks blush. Which makes me wonder why he gets the license to write all the Dalek books (the last seven have all been written by him), in spite of the fact that he violates almost every single writer's-guideline of the range. The characterisation of the Eighth Doctor is, in a word, awful. Suddenly our protagonist has taken to being overly nosy with other people's affairs, manipulative even more so than te Seventh Doctor and an all round annoying person, who hands guns to people and then complains when they use them. I haven't read the other new Dalek book, War of the Daleks, and on this evidence I'm not likely to. Or, for that matter, any more John Peel.
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