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Anything Doctor Who is awesome. I'd always recommend any book or movie or tv episode that is remotely related to Doctor Who or it's various spin-offs.

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'Doctor Who: The American Adventures' by Justin Richards is a book of 6 short stories featuring the Twelfth Doctor in uniquely American adventures.

The Doctor finds himself at various places in American history: the California gold rush, with a group of settlers, at a military base that is planning D-Day and at a large familiar sounding theme park in Florida, and other places. In each, the Doctor's unique gifts are needed to protect the people of Earth from the unknown. In each, he exhibits his own wry humor, which is often unappreciated by those around him.

The true test of a tie in book is if the character feels true to the original creation. On that level, I think these stories succeed. The stories themselves are not great, but neither are they completely terrible. As a fan of the Doctor, I enjoyed reading this collection of stories.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Penguin UK, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

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I found this book very interesting. It had a good story line.

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I wanted more from these books than I truly ended up getting. I do like that we got a selection of American Adventures, but I didn't feel very moved by any of the stuff that happened today.

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This is an interesting book that consists of six short stories. They all take place in the US, and I believe that they all involved the Twelfth Doctor, although, I didn't feel like it could have only been him.

Some of the stories were okay, not awesome. But others were very cool. The one I liked the most was Spectator Sport, about aliens visiting Earth's big battles, and then an assassin shows up too. I thought it was the best-written one and all the details in it were awesome.

Overall it was an interesting bunch of stories about a place the Doctor doesn't visit too too often.

I was given this galley through Netgalley on behalf of Penguin Random House UK/Puffin.

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