Having missed out on two years worth of monsters and enemies, instead opting to follow the story of the spaceships and companions in the Whoniverse, BBC Books have released The Ultimate Monster Guide, a compliation of the first three villian reference books with added content from Last of the Time Lords onwards. Of course, the first and foremost questions fans will undoubtedly be asking is: if I already have the other three, is there any point in buying this book?The answer is quite straightforward: Monster Guide is currently selling for an RRP of £15, double the price of a usual release of this type, meaning that if you're expecting a bargain, book shops aren't the place to look. There are well over 300 pages to the guide, offering oodles of Who goodness, the trouble is we've seen most of it before, and, bar the updates to the Dalek, Cybermen & Master sections, there isn't much room for new monsters to shine, with the classic villians proving to be in the limelight here. This isn't to say Monster Guide is a bad release, quite the contrary. The colourful and detailed pages really are stunning, and this is worth at least a borrow for every avid fan, it's just that many won't be so easily tempted to read through much of the same again. 3/5
