The Doctor is taking Peri to a society wedding on Koturia, a planet given over to a highly romanticised recreation of Vegas at its height, but swarms of prehistoric reptiles and a mysterious bride could spell trouble. The Koturians have a rather unique addition to the wedding festivities, and an odl enemy seems keen to know all about it.
The Sixth Doctor is perhaps the most problematic for this project. Colin Baker's TV era was brief and inglorious, and there is a question over how much of the expanded material should be honoured. Richelle Mead does a good job with it, all things considered.
Old Sixy's mercurial - nay, ill-defined - temperament is largely managed by making Peri the narrator and thus excluding any of the Doctor's unspoken thoughts from the text; what Peri sees is what we get. This falls down a little, as Peri's inability to recognise an enemy she must presumably have seen rather recently leaves her seeming a little dim, but overall it is a good story with a very Whovian Macguffin at the heart of it.
If there is a criticism, and this applies to all of these stories, it is that the length feels more suited to a nuWho story than the more sedate pace of the classic series, but this is hardly of concern given that the audience must primarily be nuWho viewers (given the use of primarily children's authors).
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