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The Slitheen (Doctor Who Files 3)

The Slitheen (Doctor Who Files 3)
By Jacqueline Rayner

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Who are the Slitheen? Find out all about the Slitheen, their family and enemies, home planet and technology, then join them on a brand new adventure in No Fun at the Fair.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #160194 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-08-31
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 48 pages

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thank goodness4
My 5 year old is completely obsessed with Doctor Who and I struggled to find stories to read him that were appropriate for his age. Thank goodness for the doctor who files, much needed reading material for the doctors younger fans ( my 7 year old daughter is hooked too!). There are plenty of books, fiction and information, aimed at adults but this is the missing link for children.

A sorry sight! (Although better than others)3
Okay, if you, like me, thought that the Doctor Who files would be fact packed, full of fun, and most importantly enjoyable, you were sadly very wrong. The brutal truth is that it has been written as if to a four year old and seems to tell us everything we already knew. Also, I was mislead into thinking that it would include a comic strip, but was instead a (very) short story, with no pictures, and also seems too babyish.

The cover is hardback, and is rather like 'Alex Rider - The Gadgets' (I have reviewed this as well)is. This was obviously done to disguise the short book, which is surprisingly tiny.

Stephen Cole, and any others who wrote the Doctor Who files, are not however to be branded as bad writers. The other Doctor Who novels (Feast Of The Drowned, The Stone Rose, The Resurrection Casket, The Deviant Strain, The Monsters Inside, Winner Takes All, Only Human, The Clockwork Man, The Art Of Destruction, The Nightmare Of Black Island, I am a Dalek, The Price of Paridise and The Stealers Of Dreams) are far more enjoyable.

All in all, the Doctor Who files are not to be reccomended, although some may enjoy them. This one is lightly repaired by the fact that it features SOME facts we may not know, and is SLIGHTLY more interesting.