High-profile new Doctor Who-inspired drama created by Russell T. Davies. The 21st century is when it all changes, and you've got to be ready. Separ...
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Jan 07, 2008
Amy
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Owen enjoys becoming someone different in Tosh's new virtual reality interface for an online role playing game like Second Life. A Bryuydac life form enjoys becoming someone different as it hops from human host to human host as it gathers things it desperately needs to get back home. Both enjoy seeing the world through someone else's eyes, but only one is causing death and destruction in the real world.
I was fairly impressed with the adaptation of Torchwood to novel format. It has al More...
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Dec 16, 2009
katie
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EXACTLY what I wanted in a Torchwood book! And I don't just mean the Jack/Ianto hints, because a couple of those were a little...well, they just didn't quite work for me.
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May 05, 2008
Noah
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This book was not a very good launch title for the new Torchwood books. First let me talk about the one good thing here, characterization. While Gwen and Jack were a little more whiny and or angry than usual, all the characterizations in here were pretty spot on.
The biggest problem however, was the plot. The story is overly drawn out, very little of consequence happens in most of the book, and the majority of it just doesn't make sense. The idea of an alien jacking people's bodies t More...
The biggest problem however, was the plot. The story is overly drawn out, very little of consequence happens in most of the book, and the majority of it just doesn't make sense. The idea of an alien jacking people's bodies t More...
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Apr 18, 2008
E.B.
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**SPOILER FREE**
**critical FANBOY WARNING**
The worst part of this book is that there is zero JackxIanto yaoi fangirl service. Bummer. But the bad parts aren't that much of a buzz kill any way.
I read another review here on GoodReads.com where the reviewer said s/he stopped reading because there were so many typos. Well, before I started, I decided to keep track. There were about 13 typos in all, through out the whole book. Give or take. Which may not sound like a lot More...
**critical FANBOY WARNING**
The worst part of this book is that there is zero JackxIanto yaoi fangirl service. Bummer. But the bad parts aren't that much of a buzz kill any way.
I read another review here on GoodReads.com where the reviewer said s/he stopped reading because there were so many typos. Well, before I started, I decided to keep track. There were about 13 typos in all, through out the whole book. Give or take. Which may not sound like a lot More...
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Dec 16, 2009
Writerlibrarian
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First book from the BBC inspired by the Torchwood series featuring Captain Jack Harness from Doctor Who fame. For the fan of the series the book is a nice tie over until series 2 begins. There are three books so far. Another Life is set before Cyberwoman. If you haven't seen the series some of Ianto's behavior will not ring a bell for you. The plot is interesting but the pace is very slow. The characters' introduction are minimal. The author assumes that the readers know the players. Which is no
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Dec 18, 2011
Miranda
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Like the show it's based on, this book has little depth, character development or substance. It's good fluff reading, but difficult to really get into. In most instances, references to events in the show were heavy-handed, "subtle" hints shoehorned into the dialogue and behavior of the characters. I felt as if I was reading a rushed, amateurish attempt at a tie-in novel, something I would expect to find on a fan-fiction website and not a professionally published, BBC-sanctioned novel.
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Nov 14, 2011
Katharine
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Being a huge fan of the BBC Torchwood TV series, I was really interested in reading the books that were written based on the characters of the series. In this book, the city of Cardiff is falling apart. Dark clouds are blacking out the sky, the homeless are being killed and their bodies are being left on the streets, two feet of rain falls in 24 hours, and the drainage system collapses. Torchwood hunts down the killer they believe is responsible for the deaths, but the killer jumps off the 8t
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Aug 09, 2011
Rebecca
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It took a while to move the plot and didn't have the rush of Border Princes, but overall it was quite thought provoking in places. The narrative was quite hard going at some points as you jumped perspectives and didn't quite understand who you where or what was going on. Best thing to do was not worry and just keep reading and it all became clear int he end.
Torchwood Border Princes/Slow Decay/Another Life General:
I've now read three of the Torchwood books. I was most interested in how three diff More...
Torchwood Border Princes/Slow Decay/Another Life General:
I've now read three of the Torchwood books. I was most interested in how three diff More...
Mar 02, 2009
Keri
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This was okay, but probably my least favorite of all the Torchwood books I've read so far. The story wasn't exactly boring, but it didn't fully hold my attention either and at times it felt like it was taking forever to slog through it. The characters and their banter feel kind of flat as compared to the other novels, and the subplot with Owen and "Second Reality," the thinly-veiled Torchwood-universe equivalent of Second Life, was implausible and relatively pointless despite some effo
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Dec 16, 2009
Shelley
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Lots of sexy, snarky Jack in this one, which is worth an extra star right there. Ianto has some great lines, too, especially in banter with Jack. And with Owen! Maybe that deserves another star. Some of the VR scenes are incredibly hysterical - Ianto's tail! All in all, fairly decent and I hope he writes more in the series this year.
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Jun 09, 2011
Jeff
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Goodwill comes through again!! Gonna read this before I give it to Mom for a late Mother's day gift/early Birthday gift.
A nice fluff of reading. I love the TV show, so for me I didn't need too much of the backstory for these characters. I feel sorry however for whoever started with the books first; nowhere did I get the feeling that this was Book NUMBER 1.
An entertaining mystery set out among the streets of Cardiff. I know it was Cardiff because the author would go i More...
A nice fluff of reading. I love the TV show, so for me I didn't need too much of the backstory for these characters. I feel sorry however for whoever started with the books first; nowhere did I get the feeling that this was Book NUMBER 1.
An entertaining mystery set out among the streets of Cardiff. I know it was Cardiff because the author would go i More...
Aug 15, 2011
Gareth
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Probably the best Peter Anghelides novel I've read. He captures the regulars well as the kind of people they were in the early episodes. This story is set around the time of "The Ghost Machine".
The story starts very intriguingly but when the explanation comes it is a disappointingly run-of-the-mill SF trope. Flooded Cardiff is just the kind of big budget threat that the TV series couldn't have done so it's a good choice for a book. Slightly disappointingly the whole "Second L More...
The story starts very intriguingly but when the explanation comes it is a disappointingly run-of-the-mill SF trope. Flooded Cardiff is just the kind of big budget threat that the TV series couldn't have done so it's a good choice for a book. Slightly disappointingly the whole "Second L More...
Jan 05, 2008
Holly
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I can't help it, I love Jack Harkness. The story here is interesting and Jack is very Torchwood-Jack-- mysterious, cryptic, and bizarrely in love with the 1940s.
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Aug 06, 2011
Nicholas
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I listened to the audio version of this, the first Torchwood novel, three years ago, and didn't quite get into it - John Barrowman's audio skills have come on a lot recently but he didn't really engage me in the story when I was listening to it. The dead trees version, however, had me gripped - lots of good Torchwood stuff, a body-hopping alien, a spaceship which endangers Cardiff, a former lover of one of the team (Owen in this case), all aga More...
I listened to the audio version of this, the first Torchwood novel, three years ago, and didn't quite get into it - John Barrowman's audio skills have come on a lot recently but he didn't really engage me in the story when I was listening to it. The dead trees version, however, had me gripped - lots of good Torchwood stuff, a body-hopping alien, a spaceship which endangers Cardiff, a former lover of one of the team (Owen in this case), all aga More...
Jan 17, 2012
Siskoid
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A Torchwood tie-in novel by Peter Anghelides, whose Doctor Who stories I've read in the past. It's a pretty standard Torchwood story with higher-than-normal production values (which is sometimes the point of such books) about a body-hopping alien. Unfortunately, there's also a subplot about a Second Life-type online game that is fairly useless despite its thematic connection to the title. I simply can't stand it when writers indulge in surrealistic virtual scapes, cuz that's exactly what they ar
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Sep 07, 2011
Sarah
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Das fiel mir in der Bibliothek in die Hände und weil ich neugierig war und wusste, dass die Bücher zu "Doctor Who" gut sein sollen, habe ich es nicht eingestellt, sondern einfach ausgeliehen.
Seltsame Verbrechen geschehen in Cardiff. Obdachlose, denen man in den Nacken gebissen und ihn damit regelrecht aufgerissen haben, werden gefunden. Ein klarer Fall für das Torchwood Team. Anfangs war ich ziemlich skeptisch und es gefiel mir auch nicht so sehr, vor allem, weil ich Tosh s More...
Seltsame Verbrechen geschehen in Cardiff. Obdachlose, denen man in den Nacken gebissen und ihn damit regelrecht aufgerissen haben, werden gefunden. Ein klarer Fall für das Torchwood Team. Anfangs war ich ziemlich skeptisch und es gefiel mir auch nicht so sehr, vor allem, weil ich Tosh s More...
Sep 03, 2011
There is a storm brewing over Cardiff of the worst kind. There is no known natural cause and it’s not the only thing strange that’s been happening.
Dead bodies have been showing up, the subjects of human cannibalism. When the killer is caught, he calmly greets his death…but the killings keep happening. It’s up to Torchwood to figure out what’s at the source of it all.
‘Another Life’ is the first Torchwood novel, taking us way back to the early days when Gwen was still new to th More...
Dead bodies have been showing up, the subjects of human cannibalism. When the killer is caught, he calmly greets his death…but the killings keep happening. It’s up to Torchwood to figure out what’s at the source of it all.
‘Another Life’ is the first Torchwood novel, taking us way back to the early days when Gwen was still new to th More...
Oct 21, 2011
Del
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I must say I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I am suspicious that books written as spin offs from a TV series are mere money making pot boilers.
However this book ticks all the right boxes.
The characters are portrayed in more detail than possible in the TV world and you get more of an insight into what drives them.
The plot is very good, if a little predictable. There is an alien hijacking human bodies and it has a taste for spinal fluid. Its ship has crashed and it is try More...
However this book ticks all the right boxes.
The characters are portrayed in more detail than possible in the TV world and you get more of an insight into what drives them.
The plot is very good, if a little predictable. There is an alien hijacking human bodies and it has a taste for spinal fluid. Its ship has crashed and it is try More...
Oct 11, 2011
AnEyeSpy
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"Torchwood: Another Life" by Peter Anghelides is the 2010 Wales based team of alien fighters against an alien who transfers to a new human after using up the previous, nourishing each by chewing a victim's neck to suck out spinal fluid. As if the author tried for the most terrifying punishment and gruesome deaths imaginable. If I wasn't curious how the idea transitioned to print, I wouldn't have risked nightmares.
Positives are a fast paced chase to find the perpetrator hidden unde More...
Positives are a fast paced chase to find the perpetrator hidden unde More...
Apr 08, 2009
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1045858.html[return][return]I don't think I will do these audiobooks very often in future, for reasons almost entirely unconnected with the quality of the story: the full thing extends over three full audio CDs of over an hour, with no other convenient episode breaks, and is therefore several times longer than an actual Torchwood episode. My routine is much better suited to narrative cut into chunks of around half an hour in length.[return][return]Having said that, the
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Sep 24, 2008
Tara
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I was remarkably impressed with this book, because I tend to have reservations about novelizations that spring from TV shows. When I first started reading novelizations, the first genre I began in was for Buffy the Vampier Slayer, where I found that the books were often cheaply made, and could be a hit or miss depending on the author.
This book was well bound, (without a dust jacket, which I can TOTALLY get behind,) and the print is small enough to help me reconcile myself to the sto More...
This book was well bound, (without a dust jacket, which I can TOTALLY get behind,) and the print is small enough to help me reconcile myself to the sto More...
Sep 18, 2010
Mary
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I'm a big fan of the Torchwood TV series so when I found out there were books that went along with the series I just had to give them a read.
I think this is the best one of the first three in the book series (Another Life, Border Princes and Slow Decay) since it honestly kept me guessing through out the book and reading written words helped me understand the Torchwood characters much better then just watching them on TV.
I recommend this to any Torchwood fan!
I think this is the best one of the first three in the book series (Another Life, Border Princes and Slow Decay) since it honestly kept me guessing through out the book and reading written words helped me understand the Torchwood characters much better then just watching them on TV.
I recommend this to any Torchwood fan!
Feb 02, 2011
Kara
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Decent for a based-on-a-TV-show book. Generally the characterizations seemed correct, but I think Jack seemed a bit too over the top in some places, which was distracting. Also, apparently Anghelides indicates an American accent by putting in a lot of words like 'gonna' and 'wanna', which was really irritating. John Barrowman might pronounce words that way, but all the same I didn't see Anghelides writing the Welsh-accented characters in dialect.
Jun 02, 2008
Heather
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well, i think the main indicator that this is a lame book is that i forgot to write a review for 3 whole days. normally i hop on here the same day.
typos: far too many
flirtation quotient: excellent
alien: predictable
snark: yes, please!
overall plot: predictable
so as you can see, this is a mixed bag. basically, the only reason i liked this book at all is that it *truly* captured the spirit and overall characterizations of the show. but it read like a More...
typos: far too many
flirtation quotient: excellent
alien: predictable
snark: yes, please!
overall plot: predictable
so as you can see, this is a mixed bag. basically, the only reason i liked this book at all is that it *truly* captured the spirit and overall characterizations of the show. but it read like a More...
Jun 19, 2010
Shae
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At first I was a little annoyed that John Barrowman wasn't doing any separate accents for the other characters, but I got used to it pretty quick. His reading style is fast paced and perfect for the story. It was pretty easy to see what was coming with Owen's love interest, but I enjoyed it anyway.
Jan 28, 2008
Dolphe
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Like many television tie-in serials, this book is competent but vaguely sterile. I don’t think that minor drawback is the fault of the author; however. “Torchwood” has only had a single season to provide character color and development for five leads. Any novelization would certainly suffer from those limitations. Still, the author provides an entertaining tale for hardcore fans of the series. A brief note on the packaging: The BBC has offered these titles in glossy hardback editions. Those alwa
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Apr 10, 2009
AM
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The audio version is perhaps a little too severally abridged. Not so much that you can not follow the story, but there are places where you have to make substantial assumptions.
Nov 01, 2009
Lisa
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There are numerous spelling errors that I can't stand. Surely, someone connected to this book has Microsoft Word?
The story is not engrossing enough. Too much detail on the secondary characters/elements when those details are not really important to the main stories.
Good thing about this is that the portrayal of the main characters is pretty spot-on.
The story is not engrossing enough. Too much detail on the secondary characters/elements when those details are not really important to the main stories.
Good thing about this is that the portrayal of the main characters is pretty spot-on.
Sep 17, 2009
David
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I'm a big Torchwood fan so I'd read the books even if they weren't great. This one's just fine though. Not exactly a page-turner but a good read anyway.
Dec 03, 2008
Shaun
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This reminds me of my husband--he's a WOW guy. If this were to ever come true, I think I would be in trouble! But I liked the story overall.
