big life; small space

I never could get into the Doctor Who tie-in novels. I've read most of The Deviant Strain, Monsters Inside, and all of The Stealer of Dreams, and I suppose my biggest problems with them were that they didn't really have anything interesting or new to say about the Doctor himself, and I felt like I was reading a book with characters with the same names as those in the show, but not the actual same characters. I don't know, the feeling just wasn't there.