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  • Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse

  • River Song Novel
  • By: Alex Kingston
  • Narrated by: Alex Kingston
  • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (292 ratings)

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Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse

By: Alex Kingston
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Summary

Alex Kingston reads her brand-new novel featuring River Song, from the worlds of Doctor Who.

1939, New York. Private-eye Melody Malone is hired to find a stolen ruby, the Eye of Horus. The ruby might hold the secret to the location of Cleopatra's tomb - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies.

Can Melody escape the ruby's curse?

1939, New York. River Song, author of the Melody Malone mysteries, is forced to find a reality-altering weapon, the Eye of Horus - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. River doesn't believe in curses - but is she wrong?

From the top-security confines of Stormcage to the barbarism of first-century Egypt, River battles to find the Eye of Horus before its powers are used to transform the universe. To succeed, she must team up with a most unlikely ally - her own fictional alter ego, Melody. And together they must solve another mystery: is fiction changing into fact - or is fact changing into fiction?

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twisty turny timey wimey

clever funny and entertaining but also some moments that make you think. loved it and Alex Kingston's reading is impeccable

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stick with this as it does settle into a good story and adventure. almost gave up at the opening paragraph but glad I didn't!

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Alex Kingston nailed it

i love how well she knows her character and fixes flaws from the original book

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Great fun story

Enjoyed this book. Very entertainingly read. Lovely references to other characters from Doctor Who.

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fantastic

I love this book so much I keep listening to it, just excellent 👌

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Wow!

Loved this tangled web of time travel and murder mystery. Alex Kingston does a great job as writer, reader and actor throughout this wonderful book. More please!

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great book

No "spoilers" from me. A great listen for Dr Who fans and lovers of books which are a bit different. I loved it!.

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What a great book

What a great book by Alex. What a pleasure to listen to it in her own voice.

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Wow!!!! 🤩

Loved it from the first moment I started listening to it and who better to write and narrate a River Song story than Alex Kingston herself?! Overall it was amazing and I hope she writes more of these books.

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Amazing

this book is amazing and Alex Kingston's narration makes it so much better because you can hear how she intended it all to sound

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