I honestly had a good time with this one. The one thing it suffered from was a million military names to keep track of with the characters themselves having very few scenes; that just felt kind of extraneous to me. But it was a really fun book. There wasn't a dull moment, and as it went on, the core cast of one-off characters got pretty strong. I loved Pickering, big Pickering fan.

The best part of it for me was the continuation of Sam's realizing that being with the Doctor is making her hurt people over and over again, which is something I loved the beginnings of in [b:Doctor Who: Genocide|71391|Doctor Who Genocide (Eighth Doctor Adventures, #4)|Paul Leonard|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1519681255l/71391._SY75_.jpg|69135] (I believe). I love melodrama and I love conflict