Human Nature/Family of Blood are my favorite episodes ever (of the New Series, which is all I've watched so far). And people say this book is the best Doctor Who novel of them all. So I had to read it, and it was interesting to see the similarities/differences with the episode. The book is quite a bit more sophisticated than the others I've read. It's written for adults, not all ages like the BBC hardcovers. But I didn't love it.

Very strange. All of the other Who books can be read as tangential adventures, things that fit in between or around the other stuff you see on TV due to the "wibbly-wobbly" nature of the the "timey-wimey." This one, on the other hand, must be read more like a one-off "what if?" sort of story, since it was written with Seven in the main role but made it to TV as a Ten story, and one of people's favorites - "Human Nature/Family of the Blood." So this never happened.

Whatever. The Family are FAR creepier here, and the schoolboys cruder and more violent. Seven is great, but if you're a fan of Ten, you'll have trouble not comparing. The background characters are far more developed in this book, but there's no Martha Jones. We have Benny instead, who's new to me as of this story. It's very odd is all. Still Who, so still good, and would be good free-standing, just so odd because of my having seen the episodes this helped birth before reading this.