"Apollo 23" marks the first full "Who" novel starring the Eleventh Doctor (as portrayed ,to great acclaim by fans, by Matt Smith) and Amy Pond (played by Karen Gillian), and there's an obvious sense that author Justin Richards has gained an almost-immediate sense of familiarity with the time travellers. The plot is quite complex to keep up with, seeing several portals being opened between a modern space base on our Moon and various locations on the planet Earth, with the Doctor tasked with the hefty proposal of closing these wormholes, then working out which dastardly creatures opened them in the first place and attempting to put an end to their plans of destruction. This sounds like bog-standard "Doctor Who", and for the most part it is, however there are times where you simply want to skip a chapter for its general irrelevance to the main plot, and in several cases this approach won't harm your reading of the climax of "Apollo 23". All in all, though, this latest novel definitely impresses as a readable representation of one of the Time Lord's unseen adventures through time and space, and is worth a look should it ever appear on your local library's shelf or cheap in your local bookstore.
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