Invasion of the Ormazoids (Doctor Who, Find Your Fate, No 5)

Rating:
Summary: Not one of the more entertaining Find Your Fate books
Review: I believe that I must have adored the Find Your Fate books when I was much younger. Certainly, the copies I currently own (retained from my youth) bare the markings of extreme use. In our day, after trudging three or four miles back and forth to school, we youngsters didn't have fangled, complicated video games to take our minds off of gruel and dirt, so we had to resort to the Find Your Own Adventure Books in order to satisfy our desires to interact with fiction. Okay, so much of that previous sentence is a lie, but many of these books actually were a lot of fun to an eight-year-old.

Sadly, INVASION OF THE ORMAZOIDS isn't the best Doctor Who Find Your Fate Adventure available. Philip Martin doesn't seem particularly suited to the second-person narration aspect of these books, and a lot of the book seems very contrived. The protagonist of the novel, the ubiquitous "you" is (according to the illustrations) a fairly androgynous looking, person, who upon meeting the Doctor immediately forgets his or her name and swipes a moniker from the TARDIS control panel. The two of you (mostly you) wander around in the twenty-fifth century at the edge of the universe trying to seize control of the Master Genetic Code Signifier. The Master Genetic Code Signifier is a device that, when properly used, allows the user to create perfectly synchronized ballroom dancers. In the wrong hands, this could lead to galactic domination. Or something. An evil guy called Darval is looking for a good galactic domination weapon and has designs on the aforementioned Master Generic Code Signifier. You have to stop him and the only way you can prevent the dastardly plan from coming to fruition is to blast things with lasers.

The book isn't terribly appealing from a Doctor Who standpoint. Most paths that you can take end up with you separated from the Doctor and forced in to a fairly standard action adventure. It's not overly interesting and most of the time it doesn't really feel like a Doctor Who adventure. I'd recommend some of the other FYF books, in which you actually get to interact with the Doctor and his companions.

(A warning. K9 appears on the cover but isn't in the actual text of the book, so try not to be too heartbroken when the little fellow doesn't appear.)

Rating:
Summary: Not one of the more entertaining Find Your Fate books
Review: I believe that I must have adored the Find Your Fate books when I was much younger. Certainly, the copies I currently own (retained from my youth) bare the markings of extreme use. In our day, after trudging three or four miles back and forth to school, we youngsters didn't have fangled, complicated video games to take our minds off of gruel and dirt, so we had to resort to the Find Your Own Adventure Books in order to satisfy our desires to interact with fiction. Okay, so much of that previous sentence is a lie, but many of these books actually were a lot of fun to an eight-year-old.

Sadly, INVASION OF THE ORMAZOIDS isn't the best Doctor Who Find Your Fate Adventure available. Philip Martin doesn't seem particularly suited to the second-person narration aspect of these books, and a lot of the book seems very contrived. The protagonist of the novel, the ubiquitous "you" is (according to the illustrations) a fairly androgynous looking, person, who upon meeting the Doctor immediately forgets his or her name and swipes a moniker from the TARDIS control panel. The two of you (mostly you) wander around in the twenty-fifth century at the edge of the universe trying to seize control of the Master Genetic Code Signifier. The Master Genetic Code Signifier is a device that, when properly used, allows the user to create perfectly synchronized ballroom dancers. In the wrong hands, this could lead to galactic domination. Or something. An evil guy called Darval is looking for a good galactic domination weapon and has designs on the aforementioned Master Generic Code Signifier. You have to stop him and the only way you can prevent the dastardly plan from coming to fruition is to blast things with lasers.

The book isn't terribly appealing from a Doctor Who standpoint. Most paths that you can take end up with you separated from the Doctor and forced in to a fairly standard action adventure. It's not overly interesting and most of the time it doesn't really feel like a Doctor Who adventure. I'd recommend some of the other FYF books, in which you actually get to interact with the Doctor and his companions.

(A warning. K9 appears on the cover but isn't in the actual text of the book, so try not to be too heartbroken when the little fellow doesn't appear.)