Donna is fantastic! And it's all kinds of refreshing not to have to deal with awkward Doctor/Companion UST for a change.
The Centauri Prime trilogy - I managed to buy it secondhand via Amazon, for a price that was still high enough but not ridiculously so. I'm in two minds about it myself, to be honest. On one hand I really needed to have some kind of resolution to that storyline, and there are things the novel does quite well (it paints a lovely Vir & Londo relationship, tells us a lot about Vir's role in events leading up to WWE, and brings in Timov as well). But then it also botches a lot: it tries to handle the storyline of David and the Keeper in the urn, but David stays pretty one-dimensional throughout, and in general I think it's a bit too much of an angst-and-torturefest. After the 5th instance of Londo being tortured by the Drakh, one becomes somewhat immune - and then there's Vir unrequited-love angst, David misunderstood-teenager angst, etc etc... All in all, I'm still glad I read it, though.
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Date: 2010-03-09 10:23 am (UTC)The Centauri Prime trilogy - I managed to buy it secondhand via Amazon, for a price that was still high enough but not ridiculously so. I'm in two minds about it myself, to be honest. On one hand I really needed to have some kind of resolution to that storyline, and there are things the novel does quite well (it paints a lovely Vir & Londo relationship, tells us a lot about Vir's role in events leading up to WWE, and brings in Timov as well). But then it also botches a lot: it tries to handle the storyline of David and the Keeper in the urn, but David stays pretty one-dimensional throughout, and in general I think it's a bit too much of an angst-and-torturefest. After the 5th instance of Londo being tortured by the Drakh, one becomes somewhat immune - and then there's Vir unrequited-love angst, David misunderstood-teenager angst, etc etc... All in all, I'm still glad I read it, though.