Book info

• Title Doctor Who: The Last Dodo
• Author Jacqueline Rayner
• Year 2007
• Genre Science Fiction

After a trip to the zoo, the Doctor and Martha go in search of a real life dodo, and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There, in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day - billions of them, from the tiniest insect to the biggest dinosaur, all still alive and in suspended animation. Preservation is the Museum's only job - collecting the last of every endangered species from all over the universe. And for millennia the Museum has been trying to trace one elusive specimen: the last of the Time Lords...

Thoughts

The audiobook version of this I listened to was read by Freema Agyeman so it was quite nice to hear it in the voice of Martha herself. It was lucky too, because there were elements of the text that were third person and some that were first person by Martha. It sounded okay being read by Freema, but I did think it was a bit weird switching between the two like that. However, a good story, meaningful and moving as always, with deeper thoughts about extinction and the lengths you might go to to preserve history.

Rating: 3 / 5