I really enjoyed this book. Filled with only stories with a Doctor Who twist. They were simple little stories but very enjoyable. They all involved different Doctors and different aliens from the Weeping Angels to the Ice Worriors.

I would highly recommend this book and any Whovian. ( )

A fun set of short stories which take inspiration from and riff on classic fairy tales, but with The Doctor from Doctor Who added in. ( )

I don’t think I could have made a better choice than to use my Audible credit to purchase this gem of an audiobook. I loved every minute of every story. I wasn’t always sure what fairy tale a story was based on, but that didn’t matter to me, because they all had the feel and sound of a fairy tale, and that was exactly what I wanted. The first is a wonderfully creepy tale involving the Angels, and while it felt familiar to me, I couldn’t quite place its origin in the fairy tale canon. However, most of the other stories were immediately obvious, even if you’re not paying attention to the titles, including one that was an interesting version of Sleeping Beauty and another equally interesting version of Hansel and Gretel. There are also versions of Cinderella (which is one of my absolute favorites), Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, and several other well-known stories.

Normally, I’m not one to re-listen to an audiobook, but I think Doctor Who: Time Lord Fairy Tales might be the exception. I also want to add the hardcover edition, which is supposedly beautifully illustrated like a children’s storybook, to my collection. This is definitely one of the books every Doctor Who fan should have. ( )

This is a collection of fairy tales that Earthlings might recognize, but they have been given a Doctor Who twist. Part of the fun of this collection is spotting the parallels between the original fairy tale and the version being presented here. Many of the tales in this collection place women at the forefront, asserting their agency and bravely defending themselves and their families against the alien threat. The tales I found the most clever or enjoyable were The Three Little Sontarans, Cinderella and the Magic Box, Helana and the Beast (because I am a Beauty and the Beast fangirl), and The Scruffy Piper (this one nearly made me chuckle out loud with glee at the bus stop when I realized how it had been Doctor Who-ified). Honourable mentions to Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, and The Three Brothers Gruff.

In the audio version, each tale is read by a different reader, so the listener’s enjoyment may rise and fall depending on their affinity with a particular reader. Sometimes readers would read too fast or too breathlessly, or their vocal range would be limited, making characters hard to tell apart. My favourite readers, in no particular order, were Dan Starkey, Nicholas Briggs, Ingrid Oliver, and of course Tom Baker. I particularly enjoyed Briggs’s take on The Scruffy Piper, and Dan Starkey is the king of Sontaran narration, in my books.

I did find myself a bit weary by the end of the collection, but that’s more down to me than to the collection; I was going through one of my audio slumps. When I was in audio mode, I found this a delightful diversion. ( )

Indeholder "Garden of Statues", "Frozen Beauty", "Cinderella and the Magic Box", "The Twins in the Wood", "The Three Little Sontarans", "Jak and the Wormhole", "Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday", "Little Rose Riding Hood", "The Gingerbread Trap", "The Scruffy Piper", "Helana and the Beast", "Andiba and the Four Slitheen", "The Grief Collector", "The Three Brothers Gruff", "Sirgwain and the Green Knight".

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15 fortællinger med Doctor Who viklet ind i handlingen på en eller anden måde. ( )