Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

by Jacqueline Rayner

Book Overview

A 2,000 year old statue of Rose Tyler is a mystery that the Doctor and Rose can only solve by travelling back to the time when it was made. But when they do, they find the mystery is deeper and more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849905452
• ISBN13: 9781849905459
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: BBC Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

My Daughter Loved It!!!!

About to turn 10 years old and crazy for Dr. Who (David Tennant). Loves the series with Rose and she enjoyed this book, could not put it down!!!

Equal to the writing of Russel T. Davies!!!

Of all the authors I've read from the recent 9th & 10th Doctor Who series, Jac Rayner hits the nail on the head with her writing of the Doctor, Rose, Jackie & Mickie. She really captures their characters and reading this book puts me right into the story just like I'm watching the awesome BBC TV series!

Would make a great TV Film

Normally I am not into novels that are TV tieins as so many are off the mark. As a new fan of Dr. Who, especially of David Tennant and Billie Piper, I have to say The Stone Rose is marvelous. Jacqueline Rayner has captured the spirit of the new show and of the main characters. It is obvious that the author has read enough good time travel fiction in the past to know about the problems with paradoxes and other such situations. Also how to blend fantasy and myth into being science, though not necessarily hard science. It is a fun read and I recommend it for all ages. So impressed am I that I am buying the CD version for car listening when taking grandkids on our next long trip. Having never cared for the earlier shows, sorry Who fans, I can't vouch how good The Doctor's associates were. However, even in the novel, Rose Tyler rules. She is not just a helpless sidekick, she is easily the equal of The Doctor. I will be gettinng other novelizations and can only hope those authors can measure up to this one. That can be a problem when more than one person tries to write novels based on a well known show and is why so many Star Trek novelists have failed.

If you like the TV series, you will like this book.

The story was interesting, the characters are dead on, like the show. The best way to get more Dr. Who in your life!

"I've seen a lot of strange things...Abominable snowmen, Werewolves, Demons. Vampires. But Roman god

The Stone Rose, a 10th Doctor adventure is a much better effort, from Jacqueline Rayner, than Winner Takes All, a 9th Doctor adventure was. She has done an excellent job capturing the personality of the newly regenerated Doctor, an impressive feat considering these adventures were written largely from seeing only season 2 scripts and possibly the CHRISTMAS INVASION (which is referenced in this story). David Tennant brings a lot of traits to the role that a "generic Doctor" as written by Terrance Dicks would fail to do justice. Tennant's 10th Doctor is a times a quirky mad fool like Tom Baker and like a light switch, he can turn into the menacing presence of an angry headmaster. Rayner conveys this Doctor, very well, only dropping the ball occasionally. Rose, Jackie and particularly Mickey are written very well, although appearing only briefly in the story, Mickey delivers genuinely brilliant and moving spiel upon learning of Rose's apparent "death." All characterization aside, this story has plenty to offer, nice pacing and a story following what seems to be an obvious clichéd storyline, only to twist just enough to pleasantly surprise any reader familiar with the genre. The story begins with Mickey leading Rose, Jackie and the Doctor through a museum, revealing a 2000 year-old Roman sculpture of Rose. Accepting this as an invitation the Doctor and Rose immediately proceed to ancient Rome where they respond to the obligatory cry for help. They rescue a man whose son has disappeared, then meet a slave, who is no Seer, but seems to have definite knowledge of the future. The Doctor and Rose learn the missing boy, Optatus, was last seen with the artist who has conveniently just finished a sculpture of the boy (oh really?) And the sculptor would like to have Rose model for him too (you don't say?) The Doctor and Rose seem locked into a series of preordained events ultimately leading to Rose's disappearance, the Doctor's imprisonment and fight for freedom in the Flavian Amphitheatre a.k.a. the Colosseum, even Roman gods with mystical powers (and then things get alittle weird.)