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Torchwood Novels
Oct. 27th, 2008 03:30 pmFinished reading the latest three Torchwood books this morning. Good! Definitely worth getting. I couldn't fault Pack Animals, especially when you consider there was naked Ianto. Skypoint was an enjoyable read with some cool Tosh and Owen moments, but it needed to be about a hundred pages longer; it felt rather rushed and the result was minimal emotional content. Almost Perfect was hilarious. Gwen was a blast and Rhys was brilliantly funny. Poor Ianto was a little OOC at times, but one could argue there was a major reason why that was. Almost Perfect is the first TW novel to have only Jack, Ianto and Gwen, and as much as I love and miss Tosh and Owen, I was pleased with the amount of page-time Ianto got. Bless him and his Labrador bag, haha.
All three are definitely worth getting, along with the previous three, Trace Memory, Something in the Water, and The Twilight Steets.
The first three, Another Life, Slow Decay, and Border Princes I would only reccomend to die-hard fans who simply must have everything that says Torchwood on the front -- uh, fans like me. They are decent stories in their own right, but they lack characterisation and that Torchwood feel that we all love. I somtimes wonder if the first three novels were commisioned before the show was aired or even before it was filmed. The reason that book adaptions of motion pictures are often so dire is because the author is given a tight deadline and a script and told to go ahead and convert it into a novel. Because the movie often hasn't been filmed at that time or is still in production, the author finds it hard to visualise the characters and their quirks, the pace and feel of the plot that can only be bought to life by an actor on the screen. Just a thought.
All three are definitely worth getting, along with the previous three, Trace Memory, Something in the Water, and The Twilight Steets.
The first three, Another Life, Slow Decay, and Border Princes I would only reccomend to die-hard fans who simply must have everything that says Torchwood on the front -- uh, fans like me. They are decent stories in their own right, but they lack characterisation and that Torchwood feel that we all love. I somtimes wonder if the first three novels were commisioned before the show was aired or even before it was filmed. The reason that book adaptions of motion pictures are often so dire is because the author is given a tight deadline and a script and told to go ahead and convert it into a novel. Because the movie often hasn't been filmed at that time or is still in production, the author finds it hard to visualise the characters and their quirks, the pace and feel of the plot that can only be bought to life by an actor on the screen. Just a thought.
