review of Doctor Who:Engines of War

This is the war doctor’s book.  The one where he is set on bringing down the Daleks and makes the decisions that need to be made.  He picks up a human companion who is stuck in the war.  She is a self made soldier with orange hair and a love for women over men.  She is set on the ending the Time War just as he is.  She has had to live through it and have the fear and adrenaline rule her life.

The war doctor appears and she finds hope.  He appeals to the Time Lords and the reader understands why he did not want them to make it out of the war.  They were becoming something else in the war.  They were losing who they were supposed to be.  It comes down to the war doctor and his moral judgment to save the planets that the Time Lords were planning to kill to ensure their own victory.  The Time Lords were seeing themselves as superior and experimenting on their own people.  They were planning genocide with no sense of remorse.  If the war doctor can’t make them find themselves and see the error of their ways, he can fix it himself.