Doctor Who

The Feast Of The Drowned

By: Stephen Cole

Narrated by: David Tennant

Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser's wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it? The river's dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion.

Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television.

©2006 BBC Audiobooks Ltd (P)2006 BBC Audiobooks Ltd

The Drowned rise again.

A great novel with the 10th Doctor, Rose, and Mickey. Part ghost story, part zombie fish story. David Tennant does a wonderful job narrating. He will be always one of my favorite Doctors.

Feast of the Drowned

Very entertaining with good suspense at the end. it made me want to listen to more of these books.

Story is fun, Tennant delivers!

I've listened to three Tennant narrated Doctor Who adventures recently and so far, this is my 2nd favorite (after The Stone Rose). I love that Rose and Mickey are key characters and the monster truly freaked me out. Definitely worth it!

need more doctor who?

Any additional comments?

for fans whose "who" needs are not being fully served by 8-10 new tv episodes a year, the novelizations are a nice source of additional material, and the david tennant reads are wonderful indeed. he does distinct voices for every single character and at times it's actually possible to forget there is only ONE PERSON performing. i'm not entirely sure how these adventures would play to anyone not familiar with the doctor who franchise, but then i'm not sure they have to, really. pure escapist fun... in the best possible way!

Can Never Get Enough Rose

I really do miss Rose as a companion for the Doctor. These books help fill that void left behind when Rose left the show. This one I enjoyed for the fact you got to see some of the friends and life Rose has back home on earth. It rounds our her world and gives it more depth. Very helpful to the fandom to see more of our companions. Plus you can never go wrong with David reading out his fellow cast members parts. He does such a great job.

I didn't like it

Would you try another book from Stephen Cole and/or David Tennant?

Yes I would love to try it again I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

Did not work as an audiobook

What disappointed you about Doctor Who?

It did not flow as well as the television episodes. This did not have the same feel as Dr. Who.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Doctor Who?

Confronting the woman on the bridge. No spoilers.

What didn’t you like about David Tennant’s performance?

David Tennant is so distinctive it is hard to hear him perform the other characters. This would have been better as a full cast audio style book.

Any additional comments?

I like Doctor who, I like audio books, and I thought this would be a great pairing but it just did not transfer well to this medium. I think part of the Doctors comic success is playing off of a straight man (serious character) and that is hard to do with one narrator.

Formulaic, but familiar and written for DW fans

This novel follows closely to the television formula: The Doctor and companion are drawn into a mystery set in modern day London, discover an alien invasion plot, and they (well, HE, really) foil it after a few twists and turns. I don’t consider that bit a spoiler, as any licensed material must necessarily deliver all the characters and settings back unaltered by the conclusion- series authors don’t own, they rent. I’ll agree with other reviewers in pointing out the similarities in the story’s villains with those in the television episode “Waters of Mars”. However, I must defend Cole in saying he wrote three years in advance of that episode’s airing. The areas to truly judge a DW story by, I feel, are the peripheral one-off characters that one wouldn’t expect to see return in any other story. These are the few with which the author can take liberties with and write freely; the portion of the whole which is owned and not rented. Most of those appearing in 'Feast of the Drowned' were unremarkable for me, and none experienced any transformative hero’s journey in this story with the possible exception of the scientist Vida. Her transition from opposition figure to team member by story’s end is not spectacularly different from any other such character conversion from the series. Nor are Crayshaw and the other villains all that dissimilar from other would-be alien invaders of Earth who had the poor luck to attempt their plans on the day that The Doctor happened to be passing through the neighborhood. Like the rest of the crowd, he is prone to monologuing his plan to The Doctor in a moment of perceived victory with raspy voice. I was also underwhelmed with the silver-bullet trope of the conclusion, and expect I’m not the only reader who foresaw it in the early pages of the story. None of the complaints should dissuade series fans from reading the book- it’s very familiarities that make it a weaker story in the wider pool of SF literature are the aspects of it that will make it enjoyable to its established audience of Doctor Who fans.