Today I com­pleted the Doctor Who novel “The Price of Paradise” writ­ten by Colin Brake, and fea­tures the 10th Doctor and Rose.

The syn­op­sis is fairly straight-​forward: Lay­lora is a per­fect planet. Pris­tine and beau­ti­ful, and the res­i­dents live a nomadic life and praise the planet like a deity. The Doctor and Rose show up just as another Ship crash-​lands. He lends a help­ing hand to get them off the planet, but the planet is work­ing on remov­ing them in her own way. The planet is, for lack of a better term, aller­gic to all out­side objects. This includes alien people, ships, waste prod­uct, etc. Oh, and did I men­tion that the planet can turn it’s native people into giant hive-​minded furry things with 4 arms that have scythes for claws?

Que the hilarity.

I started read­ing this book directly on the tail-​end of The Zombie Sur­vival Guide. I have to say that where the Guide failed to impress, this book delivers.

The book takes place years after what the Guide spec­i­fied as a “Class 4″ or when Zom­bies over­threw the world, and mankind goes into hiding. The book is basi­cally a recount of peo­ples tales of what hap­pened before, during and after the “Great Panic”.

When I started read­ing this book, I can hon­estly say that I was expect­ing a humourous, maybe even cute sur­vival­ists guide to a Ghoul out­break. Lord, even some­thing that was at the very least eccen­tric in its writ­ing style or message.

Hell was I wrong.