Not a bad book, the Slitheen are one of my fav aliens from doctor who and loved that they were portrayed exactly the same in the book as in the tv show!

I love it when the doctor go back into Earths history. It was well written and loved the different characters from the past as well as the aliens at the citadel. Although I would love to find out what happens to Cecrops ( )

The Slitheen has made ancient Greece into an intergalactic resort where the humans get to battle each other as gladiators to amuse the alien visitors, until, of course, the Doctor figures out what is going on. What a great installment in the series - lots of action (10th Doctor always equals lots of running) and the characters are great as well, with stakes that are as high as they can be. The Slitheen are such great, bumbling baddies as well and I can't help but to love every story they're in. ( )

As the title of this book promises, this Tenth Doctor story features the Slitheen as his adversary. Their excursion is to Ancient Greece, where they bring other aliens on package tours to experience an “authentic” past Earth—but one where the human race, fed by the Slitheen, may not develop the agricultural skills necessary to establish human society as we know it.

This was a good story. The companion is your usual female companion archetype. Her unique feature is that she is a classicist and therefore pretty fluent in the ways of this past society. I also enjoyed the skewering of package tours in general. It isn’t my favourite Tenth Doctor adventure, but it’s still a not-bad way to pass a couple of hours. ( )

I picked up a job lot of Doctor Who novels recently as I decided to try and complete reading all the ones featuring the Doctor in his Tenth incarnation. I ended up with 7 novels in total! I've never been a big fan of the Slitheen so this was the first one I read. It's one of the later novels with Ten so he's without a longterm companion and finds a temporary associate in June.

June is quite likeable and seems well-written. She's very much in the Rose style of companion; young, clever in her own right, and not adverse to joining in and getting her hands dirty. She does spend the majority of the book barefoot, something which the reader is reminded of every so often but certainly something the author would have done well to remember too! The Doctor wasn't too bad, there were some parts that didn't ring true at all, such as his method of winning at the bullfight. His babble was almost there, just needed to be a bit more manic and full of jargon. I actually felt a lot like the Doctor wasn't the main character in this book, but that June was. She was certainly the stronger character of the two.

I was actually ill when I read this and low on sleep so I don't know if that's why the plotline didn't make a great deal of sense. I did spend a lot of the book wondering why the story was progressing the way it was and what had started it all off in the first place. The storyline felt very thin and incredibly dragged out, with a whole host of secondary characters, the majority of which had no name and were just referred to en masse. The Slitheen felt a bit wishywashy and no real threat at all. They flipped between being comic fodder, a serious monster and a vague reason for the plot to move along. Not the best novel I've read but certainly not one of the worst. ( )

Entertaining enough and Chazen did a fine job reading. I'm sometimes disappointed that book-companions tend to be single-story characters; June was a fun character. ( )