Doctor Who and the Price of Paradise

The Doctor and Rose land on a planet that is supposedly a literal paradise.

That is, it's a paradise if your definition of paradise includes odd weather, earthquakes, vicious monsters with four arms, and an insane shaman.

There's also a human boy living among the beings (who look human but only have three fingers and a thumb instead of four fingers and a thumb). Then, to make matters more complicated, a space ship with humans crash-lands on the planet.

So, the Doctor and Rose have to fight the monsters, figure out what the humans from the spaceship want, deal with the insane shaman, and get the human boy somewhere else, anywhere else but on the planet.

It's a very good book with one exception, and that's the concept that the planet itself is actually alive and rejects intrusions of beings other than the ones actually living on the planet. I think that approach either needed more explanation than it was given, or something else should have been used as the excuse for what was going on.

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