Class: The Stone House audiobook

Creepy cool reading! This is a tie-in prose novel from “Class”, a spin-off TV series of “Doctor Who”. WHOM In case you didn’t watch the first season of Class, which is a spin-off of Doctor Who, let me explain you that it’s about a group of high school students and a teacher that they were “deputized” by The Doctor (actually the Twelfth one) to keep an eye on “The Rift”, a space-time phenomenon that appears in the area of Coal Hill Academy (formerly known as Coal Hill School) as an after effect for so many space-time apparitions of Doctor’s TARDIS in that place.Now, The Rift is a breach where the space-time curtain is so thin that monsters and aliens from all the universe are able to cross it and enter into Earth, and since The Doctor can’t be there all the time to watch out, so the Class group is assigned to be on alert of any unusual event around Coal Hill Academy.But as you can guess, even the very Class team is as peculiar as The Rift phenomenon:April MacLean: Student. Terran. She is the closest thing to a field leader in the team. She is brilliant and brave. She has a singular link to the king of the Shadow Kin (big baddies in first season). She is establishing a love relationship with Ram Singh, another member of the team.Charlie Smith: Student. Alien. He is the prince of an extinct race known as Rhodians. He is the last of his species. The Doctor saved him along with Miss Quill and bring them to Earth. He disguises himself to look like your regular human teenager. He is having a love relationship with Matteusz Andrzejewski, fellow student at Coal Hill Academy (and a kind of “companion” to the team).Ram Singh: Student. Terran. He is the reluctant member of the team. He lost his girlfriend and one of his legs during the first attack of the Shadow Kin. The Doctor gave him a prosthetic leg to replace the lost one. He is beginning to develop a new love relationship with April.Tanya Adeola: Student. Terran. She is the youngest of the team. While she is the same class than the rest of the team, but due her high intellect she “jumped” three years in school.Miss Andrea Quill: Teacher. Alien. She disguises herself to look like human and poses as a Physics Teacher at Coal Hill Academy, but her real mission is to guard Charlie. However she does that against her will, since she is the last of the Quill species, and her punishment for being a war criminal in a long conflict between Rhodians and Quills. The Doctor assigned her as the mentor of the team, but she isn’t thrilled for that. WHAT The story in this prose novel, while it wasn’t given an exact date, it’s clear during the first season of the TV series, and I assume that it happened before “Detained”, the sixth episode, at least.Tanya takes an unusual route to Coal Hill Academy and she found an old stone house where she watched that in a window of the second floor there is a teenager girl screaming and without any other facial feature.Oh, yeah! I’m sure that I got all of you hooked with that!The Class team goes Scooby-Doo mode to investigate the mystery behind “Faceless Alice” and the creepy old stone house.The tale is quite entertained, full of creepy moments, and the interaction between the Class team is priceless.Maybe, my only regret is that when you’d find out what is behind the haunted case (don’t worry, I won’t spoil!), well, depending of how familiar you are with horror novels, you may find some similar elements here, but still keeps to be an engaging reading.

** spoiler alert ** A solid 3.5-4 stars. Tanya is drawn to the creepy, deserted stone house...and she swears she can see a girl waving from an upstairs window. No one believes her...until the crew venture to the house and creepy things keep happening; living nightmares that come to life before them and turn to dust when touched! It's very eerie and suspenseful. But a bit simplistic when all is said and done.The writing is good and compelling as far as the mystery is concerned; it keeps you reading to find out what the source of the mystery could be. But the actual reveal just brings more questions that are never answered. Also; this is a book to avoid if you've never seen the show Class; the Doctor Who one-season spin-off series. The characters are not really explained in the book so you'll be a tad confused if you haven't see the show. They also definitely don't develop at all but their interactions (especially Miss Quill's) are enjoyable to read and the addition of Amira and the refugee angle is really good.Some things are annoyingly never really resolved:(view spoiler)[The house owner's daughter angle was strange and unnecessary; especially if they never planned to resolve it. Also? The house at the start does a LOT of strange stuff; not just nightmares but like entire room doors whipping around and wind gusts which are not really explained by a dream-vision-giving bone spider alien. (hide spoiler)]

'Given how weird this place is, how about we all split up and go explore? Like in a horror film,' Ram says, 'that way we can get killed off in turn until one of us is left.''That'll be me, then,' April says.'You'll be the first to go,' Tanya says. 'I'll be last, having worked out that it was Charlie all along.''Why me?''It's always the gorgeous one.''Then it should be me, obviously,' Ram says.'Are you really arguing about which one of you is the serial killer while we're walking around a spooky old house?' Tanya asks. Gosh, I missed these idiots so much. ❤️Like I've said in another review earlier this year (this one), you can never go wrong by giving me some Doctor Who material. Or, more widely speaking, anything from the Doctor Who universe. In this case, Class, the spin-off that, unfortunately, got killed in the egg after one season. While the audiobooks recently released this summer are still quietly sitting on my shelves, I came across the existence of these novels and, well... went ahead and ordered all 3 of them straight away. Hardback copies. (Yes, that's how you know that I truly love something.)So far, no regret.I liked the story. Interesting, enjoyable, very Who-atmosphere-ish. (It kinda reminded me of that episode with the house trapping people in the latest Doctor Who series (the last Capaldi's one, not the newly started one).) Even the "whole truth behind it all" followed the lines of one of the things I like best in the show ((view spoiler)[not all aliens actually want to hurt you and invade the planet, sometimes they're just misunderstood (hide spoiler)]). And let's not forget the layers of it all ((view spoiler)[the various nightmares of each of the characters, the refugees' insight thanks to Amira's story, and some more (hide spoiler)]).And the characters. Well, I'm kinda biased because I already loved the characters from the TV series, so I couldn't help loving them in book format too. (Although, this being told from Tanya's POV (and focused on her), I was a bit disappointed by not having a bit more of Charlie who's always been my favorite, but at least, Miss Quill (second fave) has quite a bit of a presence, so that made up for it.) But, like I mentioned in one of my reading updates, this seems to be tailored mostly for people who know (and love) the show as there's little to no build-up of the characters. They just... kinda exist as they already are and this is just another one of their adventures.Oh, and I loved the writing. I think Benedict captured the essence of each of them quite nicely. And the humor is definitely on point, especially on the dialogues. It was my first time picking up a novel (although I've been saying for at least a couple of years that I should try one of the Doctor Who novels (putting this on the 2019 goals list)), and before I started it, I was slightly afraid that I might not feel the magic as much as in the TV series or graphic novels. Well, I'm glad to say that I didn't need to worry so much because it captured me all the same. 😊I will probably read Joyride this week, and What She Does Next Will Astound You the week after (I'm not sure if this is the proper order (if there is an order to begin with) but that's the order of their ISBNs so I decided to go with that), so see you around for more Class soon!

3.8/5⭐: I really enjoyed this story, it seemingly takes place a little later in the series because April and Ram have begun a relationship but otherwise it's a good standalone tale. Like the last one, it was a quick read that read like it was an episode of the series. I enjoyed this story because it felt a little like a ghost story with a haunted old house with nightmares that come to life. I couldn't wait to see them solve the mystery and see if the house was more alien than meets the eye.This book was really Tanya heavy (along with Miss. Quill), as the previous one was more about Ram/April. I thought I would not like it because in the series, Quill really annoys me and Tanya sort of rubs me the wrong way (as she is sees things in black and white until she's the one that needs something to be in shades of grey, she thinks she knows the most about aliens when she doesn't and she's sort of rude to the only friends that she has) but I really got to see her mind more and understood her more in this book. I genuinely didn't mind Quill in the book either and enjoyed the empathy shown. All in all, I was definitely a really good book, I just wish there was more to the Amira plot and the alien stuff was explained more.

This would be an incredibly short easy read for anyone not working all the time! If you found yourself liking Class on BBC you will love this companion book. Benedict captured the likenesses of characters and just enough extra details to make you feel like you were watching an episode. It is a shame that it didn't really take off!

I loved the series so I was happy to revisit the characters, though I wasn't totally sure they were the same here as in the series. But if anything the outlook here is much less bleak than the series was, so I was for it.

Since I don't watch the show or know the characters, it took me a while to get into the book.

Loved this book. I found it spooky and so worth reading.

A good book for children

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Ok this is one that you might want to read during the day . And around October . And with people around you....

4.5/5 StarsI started this book as a project for my job. I am a huge Doctor Who fan and enjoy many of the spin offs. This was no different. There were times where the story felt a little rushed, but in all it was so enjoyable and such a quick read. I cannot wait for the 2nd book to be released!

A very good strong, a fab story, loved it to bits!

The synopsis on the back of the book sounds like a typical horror novel: A (haunted) stone house that draws you in and won't let you leave. Said house conjuring nightmare after nightmare to torment the unlucky captor. But somehow, I grew attached to the story.I was very confused when I first read it. Maybe that was why it took some research on my part to understand the peculiar (at least to me) dynamics of the story. From the synopsis of the book, I understood that Miss Quill was the kids' teacher. I was a bit perplexed at how a teacher would be directly involved in the kids' haunted house quest, but I counted on the book to eventually reveal itself. Then I read that Miss Quill was living with 2 other students, Charlie & Matteusz (for the record, I've been searching YouTube and all for how exactly to pronounce 'Matteusz'). And then there was something about Charlie and his involvement in 'the war'. Seeing as both Charlie & Matteusz were students, I was confused. I read on the cover that it was supposedly from the world of Dr Who, but then I still couldn't understand how. And I couldn't stand being so befuddled in what seemed like a promising story. Also, I read More Than This by Patrick Ness before (the first book I read of his), and I loved that book. So I admit that I was slightly disappointed when I found that I couldn't make heads or tail about this one, and even tried to recall if this had been his writing style in More Than This.So I looked up the details of the Class series. And then I learned - aaahh. Class was a spin-off of Dr Who, Miss Quill and Charlie, like the Doctor, are aliens. After that bit of research, everything made more sense.Anyway. Seeing as this isn't exactly a full-fledged novel (being only 272 pages), it was good. It was interesting enough to keep me in a book - nerd mode; that is to say, I had to force myself to stop reading when it got too late at night or when I had other things to do/other places to be. I even got a bit teary at the ending. The story finished off well, and I felt a sense of satisfaction at how everything played out. Ahh. Now there's the Patrick Ness I'm familiar with.