Doctor Who: The Lost Angel: 12th Doctor Audio Original

Doctor Who: The Lost Series #1

by George Mann, Cavan Scott, Kerry Shale (Narrator)

Kerry Shale reads an exciting original story featuring the 12th Doctor, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi, in an adventure with the Weeping Angels. All Alex Yow wants is to become a photo-journalist and break her first story. All Brandon Yow wants is for his sister to keep out of trouble and come home. But that’s not going to happen, because Alex has taken a picture of a statue. A statue that can move.

A statue that makes people disappear. A statue that is hunting them down.

In upstate New York, the Doctor is chasing weird energies that should not exist. Teaming up with Alex and Brandon, he discovers a powerful force enslaved to another’s will. Who controls the lonely assassin that prowls the streets? What secrets are the residence of Rickman hiding? And will Alex and Brandon survive the night of the Weeping Angels?

Kerry Shale, who played Dr Renfrew in the TV story Day of the Moon, reads this action-packed original audiobook by George Mann and Cavan Scott, based on the hit BBC TV series. Duration: 1 hour 10 mins approx

Genres: Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction

Audible Audio

First published January 5, 2017

About the author

George Mann is an author and editor, primarily in genre fiction. He was born in Darlington, County Durham in 1978.
A former editor of Outland, Mann is the author of The Human Abstract, and more recently The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual in his Newbury and Hobbes detective series, set in an alternate Britain, and Ghosts of Manhattan, set in the same universe some decades later.
He wrote the Time Hunter novella "The Severed Man", and co-wrote the series finale, Child of Time.
He has also written numerous short stories, plus Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes audiobooks for Big Finish Productions. He has edited a number of anthologies including The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, The Solaris Book of New Fantasy and a retrospective collection of Sexton Blake stories, Sexton Blake, Detective, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock.

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short started slow but finished very strong! Excellently narrated as well. 8 of 10 stars

[Polly Batchelor · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the Weeping Angels, but the more times they appear, the less terrifying they seem and less of an impact they have. They don't make as much as an impact. the 12th Doctor meets brother and sister- Brandon and Alex, when they run into a Weeping Angel. It was a fun story, where companions were likeable and relatable. I really didn't like the narration and I pray she is actually American to make more sense of the characters in the story to have an American accents. I hated the Capladia impression for the 12th Doctor as It felt like the narrator had never had heard him speak before. As it really didn't fit for his character.

[Emilija · Rating 3 out of 5]

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This story was alright, I enjoyed it. I liked the new companions, and the Weeping Angels. I specifically like learning more of the mythology of the Weeping Angels.

[Anka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Das Hörbuch gibt es kostenlos auf Spotify und dauert ungefähr 90 Minuten, also konnte ich nicht umhin, um meine Lernpausen heute mit dieser Doctor Who Geschichte zu verbringen.

Das Buch hatte aber einen schweren Start bei mir. Erstens finde ich, dass die weinenden Engel ziemlich ausgelutscht sind, und zweitens bin ich kein Fan vom zwölften Doctor.

Trotzdem hat mich "Der verlorene Engel" ganz gut unterhalten und zumindest die Hörspielproduktion an sich konnte mich überzeugen. Für Fans also kein muss, aber wenn man sich die Zeit bis zur elften Staffel vertreiben will, kann man sich die Geschichte auf jeden Fall mal anhören.

[osoi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Плачущие ангелы, которые в свое время просто взорвали ньюскул, теперь используются при каждой удобной и не очень возможности, превратившись в неистребимых и вечных врагов Доктора вроде далеков. При этом они заметно поглупели и деградировали до уровня очередных монстров, с легкостью побеждаемых докторскими увертками и чудесными спасениями в последний момент.

Из отличного - в этой книге есть временной парадокс. Из грустного - он почти не объясняется в угоду громоздкому выходу из неразрешимой ситуации (где Десятый немало истоптал свои кеды в попытках выбраться, Двенадцатый просто щелкнул пальцами и вуаля). Разочаровало, что теперь не действуют правила, которые раньше казались незыблемыми и являлись фундаментом для моря слез и страданий. Будто все те переживания обесценились и кое-кто просто дурилка мэрисьюшный.

Объяснима попытка использовать в первой же истории приманку в виде плачущих ангелов, но как-то оно… нет.

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[Janelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good fun. An enjoyable opening to a new series that expanded on the mythology of the Weeping Angels and introduced two new companions. Great narration too.

[William Beck · Rating 3 out of 5]

I remember during the Capaldi years just waiting for him to take on the angels. They were a terrifying villain that had been robbed of almost all menace by the end of Smith’s run, but with Capaldi’s era promising to bring back the scares, I couldn’t wait to see how terrifying these monsters could become.

Unfortunately, whilst this doesn’t hit the lows of Angels Take Manhattan, it’s just disappointingly serviceable. Some fun moments and enjoy the slow cranking of tension as the story unfolds, but I never felt the threat in the same way that even rewatching Blink can offer.

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great short story on audio, just have to work beyond critiquing the utterly abysmal "American doing Scottish accent" that sounded more like Robbie Coltrane, so kept moving in my head to an episode of Cracker (showing my age lol).... And focus on the actual story.... Which is a good one!!
Weeping Angels and a Scottish Dr (that's the only way I could relax listening, don't think of him as Peter Capaldi) in New York - as most DW stories gets straight into the meat of the story pretty quickly and is an enjoyable one - free on Borrowbox too which is an added bonus. I listened to it three times as it's only 80 mins and a fun one.
Don't blink!!!

[Ashley Beery · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was really excited for this weeping angel story. I liked that they threw in the 10th Doctor's lines as a little nod to the original angels. One thing that irritated me was the narrator's accent for the Doctor. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, but it just did not fit with the Doctor. It was too Scottish, and I love Scottish accents, but this just seemed too Mel Gibson's Braveheartish Scottish. The story was interesting though some of it just seemed a little blah in parts, but it does make up for it in the end.

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Don't blink!

[Adam Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brandon Yow goes to visit his sister Alex to find she's living in a tiny apartment blogging for little money in a neighborhood that's caught in a crossfire between an eccentric owner of a homeless shelter and a sleazy lawyer wanting to build a mall. Then the two run into a weeping angel and...The Doctor.

This was a fun and breezy story with a few elements of suspense. The new companions are likable and relatable. There's so much action, we only get an inkling of what they're about, but I could relate to them. As an American, I thought the writer did a fairly good job making the American characters sound...American and mostly avoided using of place phrases. (It would be perfect had the writers not one of them ask the Doctor if he was "having us on.")

The story introduces some clever ideas regarding the angels, particularly the idea of a disc that can be used to control the Angels. However, the resolution of the story is a bit problematic because the resolution requires some clear violations of the rules about the Weeping Angels that have been established on TV. The cutting corners at the end may have been the result of the challenges of getting the whole story on one CD. However, even Moffat fudged some of the rules on the Angels. And the story is such a fun listen and sets up an intriguing mystery that the continuity problem detracts from the story, but doesn't ruin it.

[Finlay O'Riordan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly very good!

First, a bit of context: This release is part of the New Series Adventures audiobook range (which is separate from, but connected to, the New Series Adventures novels), so this is exclusively available in audio format rather than being a reading of existing prose. This particular release is also the first in a quadrilogy of stories for the Doctor and his mayfly companions, Brandon and Alex, who are siblings.

I am actually really surprised at how strong this story was. It manages to hit all the existing creepy beats of the Weeping Angels whilst also doing something new and original for them. All the characters are strongly fleshed out, which is a remarkable achievement for a bite-sized audiobook. If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is also the only story in this particular range to feature a returning villain (this range is separate from the BBC Audio originals, which span ALL of the Doctors and is ongoing, whereas this one was exclusively New Series oriented and finished years ago).

All in all, great work. These writers work well as a duo, so it's good to see Cavan Scott can hold his own when separated from his usual partner, Mark Wright (whom, together, are most notable in the Whoniverse for their work on Big Finish's 'Project' trilogy).

[MJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Weeping Angels were a cool addition to the Who universe until they started to use them again and again and again, then they just got monotonous. At this point, I'll be happy to never see them again. I listened to this because it is the first in the series. However, I did find the concept of somebody being able to control them was interesting. My biggest complaint was the Doctor being sent back, then reappearing acting for all the world like he had just been sent back a few years. If the Angels use the rest of a person's future temporal "time," he could possibly have been flung back thousands of years. If Time Lords are affected differently than humans in this respect, it would have been nice if this had been explained.

[Stewart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great story, but very, very short. I'm not entirely sure why they decided to release what is definitely a four-part story as four individual CDs. I'm just glad I was able to get them from the library instead of forking over quite a bit of cash per minute compared to a standard audiobook.

As Weeping Angel tales go, this one was pretty good. I'm a firm believer in the "Blink" model of the WAs -- they should never, ever be seen moving by the people in the story or by the watcher/listener/reader, and this story hews to that, with one notable, but acceptable exception.

Worth the listen, but I wouldn't pay full price.

[Andy Hickman · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Doctor Who: The Lost Angel"
(Doctor Who: The Lost Series #1) by George Mann, Cavan Scott, Kerry Shale (Narrator)
****
Enjoyable return to the ‘world’ of the Twelfth Doctor. Alex and Brandon unexpectedly become companions in this encounter with an weeping angel.
The authors of this audio book captured the essence of the Doctor’s dialogue, even if we have to use our imagination to ‘hear’ his Scottish accent in the voice of the narrator.

[S.L. Sullivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

As far as Doctor Who books that I've read in recent years, I would say this one is one of the better ones! I like how it's more like a Doctor Who episode without the visuals than a bog standard audiobook. However... I wish it was longer. I wish it was more along the length of Murderbot Diaries audiobooks. I'm definitely looking forward to more of these though!

[Alex Cahill · Rating 4 out of 5]

For what it was, it did it well.

A very short audio story, slightly longer than the length of an episode.

A clever story with a twist I didn't see coming, mainly because it was so background that I wasn't exactly paying close attention.

Made me excited for the 12th Doctor and his mannerisms and personality.

[Derelict Space Sheep · Rating 2 out of 5]

42 WORD REVIEW:

The Weeping Angels, like the Daleks before them, have faded from show-defining monsters into one-dimensional ho-hum tripe. The bits with the Doctor work well enough — as one would expect — but whenever he’s absent the writing, characters and scenario simply fail to engage.

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a weeping Angel story which always perks my interest as they are such a great villain. I liked the brother and sister, Brandon and Alex, the Doctor runs into while they try to solve various disappearances that happen in one small town.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected a lot because it was in New York with a weeping angel and I'm a huge fan of Amy and Rory, so I was really disappointed. The story didn't thrill me much, there is nothing new in it.

[Jennifer Baratta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review on Audiable.

[Emma Dargue · Rating 3 out of 5]

So so short audio drame/ audiobook that didnt really go anywhere.

[yavi · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an okay book but I really can’t remember what happened in the middle of the book so I definitely won’t be rereading the this book.

[Jo-anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't mind the story. Kerry Shale read it well. I only have one complaint. It wasn't long enough!!

[Tracy Smyth · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars - not a bad story - short and to the point - Weeping Angels - not nice but the Doctor saved the day

[H3dakota · Rating 3 out of 5]

Happy to have some stories with new companions!

[flo · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5

[Richard Harrison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Think the Weeping Angels were great the first couple of times but the more they show up, the lesser the impact. This talking book was okay but the narrator's Scottish accent was a bit grating. Will probably see what happens in the next instalment, nonetheless.

[Teralyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story was a little thin, though the 'to be continued' aspect of the finish has me a little curious about reading the next one when it comes out.

[Rhys Causon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really want to find the next part of this series now.