FREE DOCTOR WHO: IN THE BLOOD PDF Jenny T. Colgan | 336 pages | 28 Jun 2016 | Ebury Publishing | 9781785941108 | English | London, United Kingdom In the Blood (play) - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us Doctor Who: In the Blood the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Doctor Who by Jenny T. All over the world, people are venting their fury at one another on social media. Dropping their friends, Doctor Who: In the Blood vent to their hatred, and everywhere behaving with incredible cruelty. Even Donna has found that her friend Hettie, with her seemingly perfect life and fancy house, has unfriended her. And now, all over the world, internet trolls are dying As more and more peo All over the world, people are venting their fury at one another on social media. As more and more people give in to this wave of bitterness and aggression, it's clear this is no simple case of modern living. This is unkindness as a plague. From the streets of London to the web cafes of South Korea and the deepest darkest forests of Rio, can the Doctor and Donna find the cause of this unhappiness before it's too late? Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Doctor Whoplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Doctor Who: In the Blood. May 30, Dan rated it really liked it Shelves: doctor-who. The Tenth Doctor and Donna return. Here an alien virus that spreads through the internet is increasing the natural anger in people and killing them. But can the Doctor and Donna find Doctor Who: In the Blood who is behind it and how to stop it? Obviously this is very topical, dealing with internet trolls and people being horrible online. I like that the phenomenon now has a Doctor Who explanation because it's hard to accept it's just human nature. I did feel it was just a few years too late to be contemporary to Donn The Tenth Doctor and Donna return. I did feel it was just a few years too late to be contemporary to Donna though but I'm happy to let that slide. With any Doctor Who book there are two big things which affect it's quality. The first is does the author capture the incarnation of the Doctor and his companion? The answer here is a resounding yes. The narrative focuses much more on Donna and often delves into her head in a way that obviously can't be done on TV. Donna is a unique character in Doctor Who and I felt Colgan captured her perfectly. I also thought the Doctor was well portrayed, as was the feisty relationship between the two. The other question is does the book do something Doctor Who couldn't do on TV? That's also a yes as Colgan has the Doctor and Donna involved in some massive scenes on a plane and then on a train and sends the action from London to Seoul to the Amazon rainforest. OK, in theory it could be done on TV but it's far more than the budget of a typical Doctor Who episode would allow. I also like it when the extended media allow the Doctor to visit places on Earth he doesn't usually get to go. For me there were a couple of issues. One is that a revelation of this book relies on you having listened to Colgan's Big Finish Doctor Who: In the Blood Who adventure. I haven't and it really lessened the impact for me, and I suspect that this will be Doctor Who: In the Blood same for many readers. I also noticed that characters in this books were constantly blinking as a reaction to things. It's fine occasionally but particularly towards the end of this book it's happening at least once a chapter. It's not Colgan's fault as such because I know authors end up repeating things like that but surely someone at BBC Books should have spotted that? May 28, Ken rated it liked it. Plenty of twists and turns as a threat spread through the internet is used to great effect. A historical set very precisely in - which I would have thought a little after Donna's time, but what's the point of Doctor Who if you can't get messy with the dating on modern Earth stories, Doctor Who: In the Blood You can tell because the Doctor wants to see Kate Bush live; as he says, she seems to have written a lot of songs about his life, but maybe everyone thinks that. Of course, this also means that given the central theme - the corrosive, cascading effect of online bile - the whole Doctor Who: In the Blood feels a little A historical set very precisely in - which I would have thought a little after Donna's time, but what's the point of Doctor Who: In the Blood Who if you can't get messy with the dating on modern Earth stories, eh? Of course, this also means that given the central theme - the corrosive, cascading effect of online bile - the whole thing feels a Doctor Who: In the Blood like a charming period piece - the trolls back then were fat men called Alan who live with their mum and eat cheese puffs, or women trapped in tasteful homes and loveless marriages, rather than Presidents or Prime Ministers. At times it's dead on - not just about that central idea of spiralling rage, or the difficulty of talking to someone suddenly more concerned with their remote friends, but also about such little everyday details as the way that losing a friend can be harder than losing a lover precisely because there's no similar ritual apparatus around it. Elsewhere, Doctor Who: In the Blood, there are odd little glitches, like Donna getting a notification that her friend has dropped her on multiple social media sites. Does that happen on Twitter? Because it certainly doesn't on Facebook. And even if it did, it surely wouldn't all be on one alert for multiple sites More single globe-trotting than any Who book I've read since the Bond pastiche Trading Futuresits scenes range from urban Korea with a bit of Doctor Who: In the Blood missed opportunity re: Gangnam to the jungles of Brazil, and the great thing about Donna as a book companion is that the annoying moment each episode where she just did Catherine Tate Voice need never happen on the page. There's always a tricky balance if you introduce SF elements into a story about human evils - it can lapse into absolving humanity of blame - but Colgan is mostly successful here, emphasising that if we weren't so bloody angry in the first place, the rage parasites wouldn't have Doctor Who: In the Blood able to have such a lethal field day here. It's chilling at times and hilarious at others - though if you watch Adventure Timethe occasional references to the villain as the Ice King may be a problem - and it ends on what feels like a properly earned note of calm and cheer. Alas, from the vantage point ofthe scene which stays with you is the entitled passenger who's stormed the cockpit and is driving the plane towards the ground: "'I'll show you! But he didn't explain any more than this. But he didn't explain who he wanted to show things to, or why. View 2 comments. Good stuff: The characterisation of Ten and Donna was good. Both came off very much in character. Stuff that didn't work for Doctor Who: In the Blood so well: There's a fine line between "good message I fully agree with" and "this is getting annoyingly preachy", and for me, this one wobbled over that line a few times, especially in the end. Still, Doctor Who: In the Blood messages are better than not-good messages. A thing that early on threw me kind of out Good stuff: The characterisation of Ten and Donna was good. Doctor Who: In the Blood box that stands separate from the monitor, you know? It's not "a huge CPU". It's a case that houses the CPU, a. You can't just pick up "the CPU". Or to step close to the desk and yank the cables out of "the hard drive", without opening up the case first. And if one's smart enough to do that and just take the hard drive for evidence, they wouldn't be stupid enough to carry off the screens as well. And Doctor Who: In the Blood there's more than a bit of irony in me coming online to post this after Doctor Who: In the Blood this particular book. But eh. I'm actually Doctor Who: In the Blood calm, if it helps. I'm just tired of it being and books still getting the most basic computer system components wrong. I'm not, not really, but Ten in book form has always been more fun for me than Ten on TV, and it was a fast, reasonably exciting and decent read.