This is the set up as to
how in Timelash there’s a photo of Jo
in a character’s locket, but we don’t actually go to Karfel, but the planet
Nooma. The planet Nooma has three castes
of people which is an interesting society and Leonard does a decent job of
making the planet stand out from the crowd of other planets. The inhabitants of the planet have an
interesting ideas on how death works as there is an entity that enters your
head and influences your mind. However
nobody really dies in the novel who doesn’t come back at the end which really
doesn’t make the story be endearing to readers in any sort of way. The supporting characters are similar to the
era as they present themselves as extremely boring people with nothing really
to allow them to stand out from the crowd.
The villain doesn’t even get much development with the large amount of
the novel devoted to him as a character.
The biggest flaw of the novel is what happens to Mike Yates. So for a big shock twist in the middle of the
book Paul Leonard decides to kill off Mike Yates which allows us to see a wide
range of emotions from Jo and the Doctor, but Leonard has the Doctor revive the
Captain, bringing him back from the dead.
Maybe this allows for the beginning of the character arc in The Green Death, but it makes me furious
as we see a character, a main character, be killed only to be revived because
death doesn’t seem to mean anything in this world.
To summarize, like this
review Speed of Flight is short. As a book it is extremely boring with
characters that don’t really do anything interesting, a plot twist that will
infuriate any Doctor Who fan or fan of good storytelling. A definite step down for Paul Leonard and the
quality of the Virgin Missing Adventures.
10/100
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