YMMV / Doctor Who New Adventures Timewyrm Genesys

• Slow-Paced Beginning: The first 4 chapters and the prologue are devoted to setting up the main characters, seeding plot points for both this book and the Timewyrm meta-plot, and dealing with an Ace amnesia plot that exists solely to set up the premise of Doctor Who to readers picking up the book unfamiliar with it. Chapter 5 finally has the Doctor and a fully recovered Ace land in Mesopotamia and meet Gilgamesh, and from Chapter 6 onwards (over a fifth of the way into the book) the adventure finally begins.
• Values Dissonance: In a rather egregiously misjudged scene, when Ace says she'll attack Gilgamesh if he tries anything with her, the Doctor lectures her for being "close-minded". So she should just lie back and let herself be sexually assaulted, apparently.
  • Considering that leading up to that point the novel has depicted Gilgamesh and the culture he is the king of as having a horrific view of women and consent and uses this to condemn the characters the Doctor's comment passes values dissonance and shoots the moon into What the Hell, Hero? territory.