Doctor Who: Kinda (Target Doctor Who Library, 84)

The Doctor's party is resting on the Paradise that is the planet Deva Loka. Nyssa needs a couple days to recuperate under the Delta wave augmentor so the Doctor, Tegan and Adric set off to explore. The Doctor and Adric end up captured by a madman while Tegan falls asleep and has some very strange dreams. You would think the madman would be the biggest problem, but turns out Tegan's dreams are as they could threaten the whole planet. This is another quick fun read and an intersting story. Nyssa's part is negligible, but Tegan and Adric are both pretty busy. The non-companions get fleshed out a bit more than usual as well, particularly the two soldiers, Sanders and Hindle.

The TARDIS arrives on a peaceful-looking planet, which will allow Nyssa to rest and recover from her experiences in the previous story, 'Four to Doomsday'. While she does so, the Doctor, Adric and Tegan set out to explore the jungle around the ship. And it is more complicated than it looks: strange wind chimes, natives who don't speak, and an Earth exploration party who have been vanishing one-by-one are just the surface of a far more complex problem that lurks inside...One of the best stories of Peter Davison's tenure, it is here adapted in a straightforward fashion by the prolific Terrance Dicks. For those who have some knowledge of Buddhism, the story's basis is plain, but even without that knowledge it remains an excellent, if esoteric, exploration of the mind.If you are particularly fond of big explosions and large scale combat, look elsewhere. This book achieves both its threat and solution by quieter means and is all the more satisfactory for that.