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Another winner of a DW novel. Totally canon to the 11/Amy/Rory world. Very fast paced, trippy, slightly terrifying and quite sad. Honestly would've thought Moffat could've written this. Definitely recommend :)
As I picked Borrowed Time up and started to read, I had a nagging feeling I knew the author name from somewhere, and sure enough, the author is the very same Naomi Alderman who more recently wrote The Power, a bestselling science-fiction novel with a feminist plot twist, which has been the talk of the broadsheet culture supplements.There are plenty of signs in this earlier work that the author would go on to greater things, as this is certainly one of the best examples of new series Doctor Who n...
Since they took off Doctor Who from Netflix I’ve desperately searched for something to replace it and I finally found the books. This is my first one btw. What I liked so much about this one is how the author really did manage to capture the characters- especially the doctor. It almost felt like I was watching an actual episode, humor, silliness and all. The plot was kind of capturing and the whole idea of having more time to get everything done. It’s a great both thrilling and interesting adven...
Who among us couldn’t use more time? Time to get done all the things that need to get done but to also do the things one wants to do? According to Mr. Symington and Mr. Blenkinsop, they have the perfect solution and are quite happy to help. And it’s all available at a quite reasonable rate of interest.Anyone who knows me knows I am a big Doctor Who fan. I’ve read several of the series novels before and even reviewed them here, though I tend to prefer the actual TV show over the books. The re
This is based on the television series. This one has the Eleventh Doctor along with Amy and Rory. In this one, our heroes set out to stop a bank from collapsing. They didn't know that employees of this bank are borrowing time from lenders and these loans are to be repaid at extravagant rates that could lead to death.I love the concept of this book. The concept of bank employees having loans and not realizing the compound interest and its encumbrances is something we can relate to in the real wor...
This starts with the wrong biscuit a digestive that far to quickly sinks to the bottom of the cup.From then on Mr Brown 's life is running around like a headless chicken in ever decreasing circles sweaty late all the time.I know that lot of Jobs in office environments are exactly this for me sound like has Nightmare out of worst horror movie. Blood suicidal depression like the office revolution in Monty Python's Meaning of Life.For Mr Brown is hair pulling days are over when two crazy heavies tu...
Do you ever wish you could just have a little more time to get everything done? Would you consider borrowing some?Using the banking crisis as an analogy, this excellent 11th Doctor story simplifies how easy it is to run up a big debt without properly looking at the Terms and Conditions. Not only is this a great thrilling adventure, it also gives a great moral story to younger readers on how on easy it is to fall into that trap.One of the best NSA’s.
OK, that was a fun and entertaining jaunt, and a nice .. and oh-so-welcome ... diversion (at, alas, a time when diversions are uniquely valuable).I'm not sure you'd need to be Doctor Who fan or reader to enjoy this. It's a fully accessible, rollicking, sci-fi (time-travel, duh!) saga, with a healthy dollop of banking/financial industry bubble-and-recession harbingers, spiced up by a couple of not-so-subtle, but fun, springboards from the historically fascinating, great yet terrible, mind-blowing...
This was another fabulous Doctor Who book 📖. Naomi A. Alderman did a fantastic job portraying The Doctor, Rory and Amy. As I was reading it was like watching an episode in my head. I loved the concept that the bank 🏦 employees were borrowing time like it was a loan. The thought of shark 🦈 men was quite freaky. Think it’s was the quickest I have ever read a Doctor Who book.
Besides the bit about Narnia, the epilogue had to be my favorite part!Time sharks. Just, really? CREEEEPY
So here we have ‘Doctor Who’ does the financial crisis, with The Doctor taking Amy and Rory to witness the biggest banking collapse of the age. Obviously that’s a set-up containing a great deal of promise, but there’s also something a tad disquieting about it. After all if The Doctor is involved, then there will obviously be malevolent aliens involved somewhere in this crash. But why would human beings need malevolent aliens to crash a bank? Human beings have more than proved themselves stupid e...
After Jonny's excellent Who book Touched by an Angel, I didn't think the next book could live up to it. I was wrong. Less concerned with emotional depth than Jonny's, this is far more a satirical, even political book, exploring the recession and bank collapses - right in line with the show's original remit to educate and entertain at the same time - I can't recall a Who book ever taking the time to explain the workings of compound interest before!Given the complexity of the ideas she explores, a...
Can you imagine this as TV episodes? Because I can and they sound glorious.I don't even know where to start. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory are all in characters. And the other characters are also fleshed-out quite well. And the plot looks quite simple but it is not. The story have several layers. And there were so many action scenes but never a dull moment.TLDR; I'm so glad I read this book and I can't wait to re-read!
"Oh god, has the Doctor decided I'm useless, well I am useless, but maybe I'm useless in that useful sort of way? Bait, maybe?"It really breaks my heart how cruel these books are to Rory - he's always being left behind and picked on by Amy and the Doctor and it makes me just want to go and give him a big hug. So far, I've yet to encounter one of these books that doesn't patronise him on a depressing level. But maybe I'm just overly smitten with Arthur Darvill . . .The BookBorrowed Time is a real...
Fittingly, I read this one entirely on a plane taking me first to and then again back home from the Doctor Who Festival in London last weekend. And it reminded me once again that while the Twelfth Doctor is MY Doctor (and this is where I'm really tempted to insert some utterly fangirlish, smitten gushing over how ridiculously gorgeous Peter Capaldi is in real life, especially close up, and how wonderfully firm and warm his hand is, and how radiant and genuine his smile is, and how I melted into
Doctor Who: Borrowed Time is a crazy book. At Lexington Bank, the biggest bank in the whole entire world, has a ton of employees. They are expected to get a humungous project done in an hour. How? There are these weird people who give you watches. This special watch you can borrow time. If you go back a day, it will only affect you, and no one else. However, there is interest. Five minutes per hour, per hour. But when the weird people tell you the interest rates, they say the second per hour ver...