Torchwood: Slow Decay - Andrew Lane

I love the Torchwood series, I love the stories, I love the characters, I love it all! So I bought this book along with the two others in the series - wow what a disappointment!! The story was not in the exciting, pacey vein of the TV shows, the writing seems so simple that it is hard to read. It doesn't flow at all. The characters have been simplified and certain traits exaggerated - in the TV show the characters are much more complex than the one dimensional people in the book. I did manage to read this book to the end, but I have never felt inclined to pick up one of the other books in the series that I bought. It feels a far cry from the TV series that I love so ...  Read the complete review

There is not one single Torchwood book that I can physically read past chapter three. As a great fan of the show I had very high expectations of the books, especially as they are from the BBC. However, to say I was disappointed is a very big understatement... None of the characters in the book are true to the show and there are things said and actions carried out that would never happen on Torchwood. Reading up to chapter two on this book I tried to imagine what the scene was like and the characters saying their lines, yet this was impossible! All the books are by different authors so I thought I'd hire them all out of the library (thank ...  Read the complete review

I don't know why I do it but for some reason every time that I go to a jumble sale or a car boot sale I come home with a bag full of books. I already have a bookcase full of novels to be read, yet still I add to this ever increasing pile. To make matters worse it's not as if my taste is any good. My bag of books will not contain classics or Booker nominated fare - it will contain generic crime novels and worst of all the tie in novels. To heap even more shame onto my purchases I have been known to buy tie in novels for shows and films I have never even watched. Why do I do this to myself? Probably because these books are such easy reads that I can get them finished ...  Read the complete review