(Audiobook version.)

John Barrowman really brought this book to life in the audiobook version. It made it all the more precious as a season 1 Torchwood tale. Excellent. ( )

Title: Torchwood: Another Life
Author: Peter Anghelides
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 3½/5

Summary:

Something is taking over humans in Torchwood's hunting grounds and the weather over Cardiff goes berserk. It is once again time for Jack Harkness and his team to come to rescue and save the day.

And then some:

Pure entertainment. The characters are faithful to the series, the plot is decent, the description is good. Nothing spectacular or mind-blowing, but definitely a must read for anyone who's into the tv-series. ( )

An alien warrior starts possessing members of Torchwood. Is it out for conquest or just trying to get home?

The climactic scene with Gwen and Jack is moving, and also very in-character. On the other hand, I'm not sure if this book is abridged or not, but it seems to be lacking depth in the way an abridged book might be. Also, John Barrowman is not my favorite reader. It may just be me, though - much as I like him (and Jack), his (American) accent always sounds just a bit off to me. ( )

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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.

Having said that, the story is standard Torchwood - alien creature comes to Cardiff, possesses its human victims, the team deal with it despite gross personal danger - but well told, with nice personal vignettes for each of our favourite characters and good descriptive writing of the horrors of flood and drowning, with an excursion into second person narrative at one point which of course is all the more compelling when delivered via the spoken rather than written word. Barrowman slightly overacts in places and his pronunciation of one or two phrases jarred me, but that is of course part of his charm. ( )

I bought this book along with the two other Torchwood books, "Border Princes" and "Slow Decay" and the Doctor Who book "Made of Steel" from the Stansted airport Borders where a very friendly lady agreed to hold them for me while I went to withdraw more money from my account.

When I started reading it I was a bit worried (well, worry is maybe a little bit strong, but anyway) that the author wouldn't really go for the slashy aspects of the show, but I was happily proven wrong, because there were several bits of flirtation between Jack and Ianto and, well, Jack and other people too. [g]

I'm not that squeamish when it comes to books usually, but this author really managed to do descriptive in a way that I actually felt a little bit nauseated at one point. The dialogue seemed right in relation to the show and it was an enjoyable read. If you like the show, I think you'd like this book too. :) ( )