Title: "Why can't everyone leave me alone?"
Product review: "Asylum" is well-written but somewhat unmemorable. Oxford in 1278 is intelligently depicted, but the plot has only enough substance for a traditional four-part "Doctor Who" story or a Telos Novella. There's not enough plot and characterization here to sustain a full-length "Who" novel; instead, we get scenes that repeat what we already know.Nyssa, one of the most likeable "Doctor Who" companions, is especially poorly served by this book. She spends the whole story within the grounds of Oxford Castle, hiding from the outside world, making no contribution to the plot and sinking ever deeper into a depression that seems born of a desire on the author's part to present his own personal problems to the world rather than tell an interesting or entertaining "Doctor Who" story.Even the Fourth Doctor is weakly characterized in this book. Unless you want to read every "Doctor Who" book ever published, I suggest you skip "Asylum".
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