There were some good ideas in here, but the ending degenerated into incoherence and the author was clearly just too in love with his own sense of cleverness for his own good.

This is the first NA I've read. I'll have to think about reading any more. ( )

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2609722.html

I've seen some rather negative reviews out there of this Bernice Summerfield novel, but I really enjoyed it: Benny gets caught up in acnient Templar-style conspiracy theories involving a sentient velociraptor and her own mummified finger, across several timelines. Sure, it veers in a somewhat different direction of future earth continuity and Benny's own marital life, but as I am reading these books in order I find it a refreshing difference. A bit bleak in tone, but that tends to be the case with Mortimore. Could be recommended to a tolerant potential convert to the Bennyverse. ( )

In some ways this feels like a dry run for Mortimore's later, superior novel Campaign, what with the universal reboots. I liked the stuff about Young Benny, but I don't feel like what we see of Earth here fits well with what other Doctor Who sources tell us about this century. There's a lot of big, audacious ideas in it, but I don't so much like them as feel as if I ought to be liking them. A weird book that doesn't really hit its target... whatever that might have been.