Book Review - Doctor Who - The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons

Books read in 2020 - No. 4.

Hi Peeps

Have just finished The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons.  A very good book and sadly the last one to feature the Ninth Doctor as played by Christopher Eccleston.   I'm sad about that.  Hope he comes back in a special or in audio adventures.

Anyway The Doctor,  Rose and Captain Jack arrive on a world similar to ours.  A colony world in the future which the Doctor notices shouldn't be as similar to our age and should have moved forward.

What has happened is that everyone has stopped using their imagination and dreaming - there is a good twist as to why.  So the Doctor sets out to right this wrong.  But can Rose and Jack stay out of trouble and not end up in the Big White House?


Overall - a solid adventure for the Ninth Doctor although did slow down in some parts.  Plus read carefully or you'll miss what is imagination and what is real.  It also is a good commentary on the News we watch and what to believe.
With good secondary characters and good writing by Steve Lyons it is so far one of my favourite Doctor Who books.


Score   -   7/10

Started 22 April 2020

May 2020 Update

Hi Folks

This is a really quick update.

I've still to get some writing done but will by the end of the week with me being off work.  There are changes coming thanks to the Pandemic.   

Hope you are all Staying In and Safe but exercising in the beautiful countryside where possible. 

I will try to do a few more writing blog posts in the next few weeks and also a WIP sample chapter.

I've decided what I'm going to read over the coming weeks -  here is my TBR -

Firstly finish The Stealers of Dreams.

Then read Race to the Kill by Helen Cadbury - Her final novel.

Then read through Joe Abercrombie's First Law Books.

(I may read the Trilogy then pause and read another Doctor Who or Standalone novel then finish the books off.)

I've been wanting to read these for ages a Grimdark David Gemmell .

I hope to get these finished by end of July - wish me luck.

Hope everyone is safe - will blog soon x