The Drosten's Curse - A Doctor Who Book Review

The Drosten's Curse is available on
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As I was reading this book my husband asked me, "Is it any good?"

To which I responded, "Its kind of like the TARDIS."

This earned me a funny look, so I explained, "Its Bigger on the inside."

While The Drosten's Curse was greatly entertaining, it seemed that I would NEVER finish this novel.  I can usually  eat up a good read in a day or two, but it took me weeks to make my way through this one, despite loving the tale nearly from the beginning.

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 Bryony Mailer is working at a golf resort - quite peaceful even if patrons do tend to just disappear from time to time - and pondering what more exciting things she might do with her life.

Then the Doctor loped into her life, wondering if he might have missed January, and was he not in Chicago after all?

Certainly not in Chicago, the Doctor landed in June, just a few miles outside of Arbroath.  And something odd is going on in Arbroath.

In a story complete with a set of un-normal twins, a lovely grandmother who is obsessed with octopusses (or octopodes), an incompetnet golfer named Putta, and a mighty behometh thought to no longer exist called the Bah-Sokhar Bryony finds herself in a grand adventure.  She is actually enjoying herself, despite being almost dead a couple of times.

The Bah-Sokhar feeds off of anger, hatred and negative energy, and is looking for a new ruler, because it needs to be controlled.  And the world of humans is full of anger and hatred.

"I shall make you the jewel at the heart of the universe."

The Bah-Sokhar offers it's power to a few people, but is quite taken with the Doctor, who it wants to stay and play with it.  Forever.

Meanwhile, a petulant young man/child decides to take the Thing up on its offer to be made the heart of the universe.

And that is when the world ends.

While it took me a couple of weeks to read the first 2/3 of the novel, I finished the final 1/3 in an evening.

Doctor Who?

The Doctor in this novel is the 4th Doctor, as portrayed by Tom Baker.  With overflowing scarf and hair that is a character of its own.  Though I'm familiar enough with how Tom Baker looked as the Doctor, I could't help but read him as David Tennant.

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I received this book from the Blogging for Books program in exchange for this review.”