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The Plotters

(Doctor Who)

By Gareth Roberts

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| Paperback | 9780426204886

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This was the first book I've read by Gareth Roberts that wasn't fourth doctor and Romana II. It was a first doctor adventure with Vicky, Babara and Ian. While I didn't love it as much as the Romana books it was still very good. It felt like a proper first doctor historical adventure, with a lot of h ... (continue)

This was the first book I've read by Gareth Roberts that wasn't fourth doctor and Romana II. It was a first doctor adventure with Vicky, Babara and Ian. While I didn't love it as much as the Romana books it was still very good. It felt like a proper first doctor historical adventure, with a lot of humour thrown in for good measure. Roberts included a very good disclaimer at the begining that said it was not intended to be historically accurate and recommended a proper history book on the subject of Guy Fawkes if you wanted to know what actually happened. But intended it to be historically accurate in the way the Romans was. And I have to say he succeeded very well.
Like the Romans there were no space aliens hiding in the period trying to take over the world. All the plotting came from actual humans who lived during the period, Guy Fawkes and his fellow plotters and Robert Cecil. There were amusing sub plots where Vicky had to dress as a boy, and quite naturally ended up being fancied by King James I. (A plot that probably wouldn't have happened in the original first doctor adventures but worked very well). It included the idea that the Catholics were being set up by Cecil to further his anti-Catholic policies. There were secret tunnels, cross dressing, taverns, poor people and all sorts of adventure. I enjoyed is so much I'm thinking I should try some of the EDA that Gareth Roberts wrote. As so far I've been very impressed.

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