Rate 'The Nightmare of Black Island'

[Ice Warrior]

The sixth book being relased along-side season 2 of The New Series. Sounds like a good book too, judging by the title.

On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline, a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island? As the children's nightmares get worse, the Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...

Source of the blurb:
www.drwho-online.co.uk/

[Dominic Smith]

Interesting how the latest set of books hasn't been released yet but someone's voted on how good they are

[Ice Warrior]

Picture of the cover:

[matthewsee]

The Nightmare of Black Island is an original novel featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose.
Written by Mike Tucker, it was released in September 2006.
Concurrent to reading this book I also listen to the abridged audiobook version read by Tony Head (School Reunion).
The Doctor and Rose arrives on a titular island after Rose had a peculiar dream that led them there.
On the island they discover that the children there have been plagued by nightmares and it looks it has something to do with industrialist Nathaniel Morton.
Tucker has presented a very good story here with the intrigue that went on with the children on the island as well as the role played by the characters Brownwyn Ceredig and Nathaniel Morton and the alien race the Cynrog.
Torchwood gets a subtle reference here when Bob Perry says "you think that Cardiff has a assembly that deals with that [Aliens]?" in which the Doctor replies "You'd be surprised".
Tony Head presented well in his reading of the audiobook as he presented the sense of mystery to the proceedings.
The accompanying interview with Tucker and Head was also enjoyable with the latter making a joke of the reading taking him four hours to do.
The interview also talked about Tucker’s work on the “classic” series and Head’s guest stint in School Reunion.
In the acknowledgement page in the book, the people that Tucker has thanked included his former writing partner Robert Perry but Tucker asked the question to him of where he is.
In fact many Doctor Who non-TV writers prior to the arrival of the “new” series in 2005 seems to have disappeared when the “new” series came around.