Doctor Who

Doctor Who novels are either brilliant or horrible and this was the latter. I immediately drew problems with Amy's characterization - she's absolutely nothing like what she's like on the series - and the Doctor as well seemed very off-kilter. The author's grasp on Americanisms was nil (I promise you an American knows what a ‘somersault' is). The plot itself was boring, with many secondary characters who serve essentially no purpose - in Doctor Who, novels as well as the series, one-off secondary characters tend to have a great deal to deliver to the plot, but this one just had no pay off for several of them even being there.

There was a cute bit from the point of view of an elephant, though.