okay so i read another one of the novels in one sitting so to anyone interested, enjoy my thoughts and some excerpts under the cut:
So the books is told through first person and through letters characters are sending!! Most of it is from Amy’s point of view, halfway through it introduces some Rory pov chapters, and one page of the Doctor’s pov that’s in gallifreyan which threw me off.
In the first chapter we get this gem of a description from Amy:
“My husband has one of those faces that looks best when it is worried.”
And this is the first page of Rory’s very first pov chapter and it just. hit me square in the chest like a ton of bricks.
“Hello. My name's Rory, and I'm dying.
I've not really said much so far. I've kept out of it. To be honest, I'd much rather let everyone else get on with it.
But it's complicated. I mean, Amy always knows exactly what to do. Even if she doesn't, she acts like she does. Running through a burning spaceship, laughing. Trust me, she's just the same down the supermarket.
Every now and then, I get left behind.
I love you, Amy Pond. I know that.
I really think you love me too. Sometimes. Well, I wonder if it's just that you really, really, really love me because you do, and sometimes if it's just that you slightly love me just because of the way that meeting the Doctor meddled with your childhood. If you see what I mean. See, now, that bit makes me cross. Cross because I don't like that thought as it works out badly whatever way you
look at it. I'm cross that the Doctor messed up your head, but if he hadn't, perhaps we wouldn't be married. So maybe I should be grateful. The next thing I tell you is a lie, the last thing I told you was the truth. Bang.
Of course, now the Doctor's messed with my head too, and I really don't know what to think any more.”
As he’s dying, Rory questions if the Doctor will actually come save him, and eventually loses hope entirely and is convinced both Amy and the Doctor have abandoned him.
Amy’s reaction to the doctor saying they couldn’t rescue him is ‘Not my Rory. The Doctor just didn’t get it. Rory is too important.’ and it hurt my heart.
The chapters in his pov really were a great insight to how he views the dynamics between the three of them, especially when compared to Amy’s chapters and how she seems to view things as well !!
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