Doctor Who: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage: Tenth Doctor

Derek Landy

Oct 2013 · Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Short Stories Book 9 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord.

When the TARDIS lands on a planet that looks identical to Earth, the Tenth Doctor and Martha are amazed to find it packed with fictional characters from her childhood. But who has the power to create an entire world out of books and why? The Doctor and Martha must solve the mystery before their story ends!

Author Derek Landy puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space.

Ratings and reviews

Definitely not a complicated story. It is very much geared towards children, but it has enough Who moments that any Doctor Who fan will likely enjoy. I was never a Martha Jones fan, but I found this version of her to be somewhat improved. Her romantic interest in the Doctor, which I find tiresome, is not explored. However, without that driving her character, she is a great deal blander than the TV character.

To cut to the point, this is an interesting premise but with too little time to develop and become something truly exciting. It ended up feeling rather forced in an attempt to shoehorn in any reference the could.

Have to admit it wasn't great. Read like it had been written for ten year olds. Kinda a simplistic version of The Rings of Akhaten.

About the author

Derek Landy was born in 1973 in Lusk, Dublin, Ireland. He began his writing career as a screenwriter. Two of his screenplays have been made into films, one of which, Dead Bodies, won the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA). Landy is the author of the best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series. His first book in the series, Scepter of the Ancients, was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and appeared on the Oprah's Book Club Kids Reading List. Landy lives in Ireland.