I managed to consume the second of the three new Torchwood novels in a couple of days. I know I’ve said it before but they really are like the reading equivalent of candy floss.
This novel really irritated me. Firstly they brought back a long dead character – yes, I know, this IS Torchwood but it was a character I just can’t like. I did like her at one point and just as I got to like her they killed her off before the show had barely started. I couldn’t believe they were in all likelihood about to do it again. This book just felt like such a filler as we all wait around for the new series to amount to something – though I have my doubts it will.
The whole “cleaning up the hub and now we’ve found something” seemed a bit predictable, a bit obvious. In fact the digging around in the debris is a little surprising perhaps – the contents are so toxic I’m surprised they didn’t just fill it with concrete, ah but then it isn’t real is it.
Like every Torchwood book it is around 250 pages – at least they all sit nice and evenly on the shelf I suppose. The thing is, it is divided up into a silly number of chapters and filled with blank pages between them as well. The book is seriously padded which suggested they were already stringing the story out as it was.
I’m grumpy. I miss Ianto. I miss Toshiko. I miss Jack. Flashbacks are just a little bit irritating and unsatisfying. If they were going to bring anyone back from the dead in a story, could it not have been Ianto?
