Several of my friends regularly watch/watched Dr Who and Torchwood. I managed to never get into Torchwood when it was on the air. I was familiar with the characters and concepts due to catching bits and pieces of the show or hearing friends discuss some point or other. I'm more of a reader than TV watcher, so I started reading this series as I was interested enough to see what it was all about. At first, I had assumed the novels would just retell the events from the TV show, but these are totally different stories. The books do occasionally touch on stuff that happened in the show as the events they portray sort of happen between episodes. After reading the first 12 novels in this series, I actually went back and watched the whole show, too, since I liked the characters so much. ( )

I thoroughly enjoyed most of this book. There were parts where I was very scared for the main characters, and other parts where I was scared for the other characters. One couple in particular met an extremely tragic and unfortunate end. But it was lovely watching them all flail about, having no idea what was going on for a good long while. And then, when they sort of figured it out, I got to see Ianto singing. I certainly would have loved to have heard that on the show! And the fact that they didn't figure it all out until the very last second when it was almost too late had me sitting on the edge of my seat. ( )

Mediocre novel with a crap ending. The characterizations were somewhat true to Jack, Gwen, and Ianto (until the last bit), though not exceptional. The plot was just ok. But what really did it in for the book was the final chapter. I had sort of seen it coming from early on, but I was hoping against hope that the author would take the story in a different direction. Alas, she did not. I adore Torchwood, and I refuse to believe that the Jack from the show would've made the same decisions, nor would Gwen and Ianto have just blindly gone along with those decisions. My opinion? Skip this one. ( )

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In general I have very much enjoyed the Torchwood novels, and I would have enjoyed this one as well, if the ending had not turned on the convenient disposal of an autistic child's life. That just makes me sick. ( )