Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
We’re now around the half-way point of this book and by the end of this chapter we’ll have reached it. Thus far it has been rather enjoyable. The author has a good fix on the original crew and it shows in the way they speak and act. Not constrained by the couch cushion budget or SFX limitations of the 1960s they’ve managed to tell a good story that might work as an episode. Hopefully this trend continues. And now we have a spy to deal with as well.
The story has also taken some parallels to World War II as Ian as noted from his war days. Strange then that Barbara, who also grew up around that time and is an actual history teacher (since the show’s original goal was to teach both science and history…though they dropped the educational goal rather quickly), has not made any connections. In fact she really hasn’t done much of anything in the story except wander around, get locked up, and react to stuff. We still have seven chapters to see if she does anything, or if she actually does die in this timeline, so let’s get to the next chapter and see what happens.
