Book info

• Title Doctor Who: Wishing Well
• Author Trevor Baxendale
• Year 2007
• Genre Science Fiction

The old village well is just a curiosity - something to attract tourists intrigued by stories of lost treasure, or visitors just making a wish. Unless something alien and terrifying could be lurking inside the well? Something utterly monstrous that causes nothing but death and destruction? But who knows the real truth about the well? Who wishes to unleash the hideous force it contains? What terrible consequences will follow the search for a legendary treasure hidden at the bottom? No one wants to believe the Doctor's warnings about the deadly horror lying in wait - but soon they'll wish they had...

Thoughts

Another Doctor Who story and this one was a pretty down to earth and standard Whovian puzzle to be solved. I quite enjoyed it, a village that is being tormented by something, humans being the best and worst that they can be, and the battle between greed and good. The Doctor and Martha have their fair share of trouble to deal with in this but it’s got some good ancillary characters too, and was well read. Enjoyed it.

Rating: 4 / 5