The Crystal Snare

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The Crystal Snare
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Author Richard Dungworth
Series Doctor Who book:
Decide Your Destiny
Release number
5
SubjectFeaturing:
Tenth Doctor
Martha
Publisher BBC Books
Publication date
4 October 2007
Pages128
ISBN 978-1-4059-0381-3
Preceded by The Corinthian Project  
Followed by War of the Robots  

"The Crystal Snare" is a BBC Books adventure book written by Richard Dungworth and is based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha.

This is part of the Decide Your Destiny series which makes you choose what happens in the books.

Reception

The book received some cautiously positive reviews, [1] which also highlight that it is the range's first book not to be set in the future.

It was part of a second set of four books, which were successful enough to allow the range to continue.

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References

  1. ""Doctor Who - Decide Your Destiny: The Crystal Snare" by Richard Dungworth". My Cultural Experience. 12 June 2008.