I think this book is a good continuation of the Toorchwood series but unfortunatly Toshiko and Owen are susposed to be dead

This set of Torchwood novels is much better than the last. This is my favourite of the set, and has some pretty good stuff going on. The ending's not huge on the making sense, but that's not something I really demand from the show, anyway. ( )

Something is going on in Tretarri which also happens to be the one place in Cardiff that Jack physically cannot enter. Elsewhere, we see Bilis Manger busy with plans that cannot come to any good - or can they?

Fairly Jack-centric, giving further glimpses into his past. ( )

The season two Torchwood books are much, much different than the first season books. The new books actually have *our* characters (as we know them second season) and are about half the length. They are more fangirly and they are tied in to the show accurately. I couldn't say any of that for the first season books. Spoilers: Twilight Streets makes several references to character developments and events through the end of season two - Although I personally don't think someone who hadn't seen season two would be spoiled badly by them. They are things you would spot if you were in the know, and would probably miss if you weren't.

The rest of my comments contain HUGE SPOILERS - beware if you haven't read the book yet...

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I loved this book - There was heaps of great banter and character scenes, the characters were totally *our* characters, there were many canon references that tie in with season two (making the story feel more convincing,) we got a ton of *extra* character development (which I'm inclined to take as canon, but we all differ on that,) and it had great humor, snark, and pacing. Plot - I can't speak to... I'm pretty easy. Although it seemed convincing to me - Even the AU part (and I hate AU realities, really.) But it all got a bit complicated toward the end with Bilis and frankly, I stopped paying attention to detail - Maybe it sucked, I don't know.

Moments of fangirl joy:

One of my very favorite things was that the author totally fanboyed out on us and pulled in a background extra from Dr. Who as a main character - the Cardiff Mayor's secretary from Boom Town gets a full-fledged role. Which tickles me greatly for some reason. :-) I wonder if someone told the actor that his character has this whole life created for him somewhere...? He even gets to snog Cpt. Jack... Sort of. ;-)

There were some really gorgeous scenes between various characters - My very favorite was between Gwen and Ianto (pg. 125+) where Ianto snarks out and has a rather profound discussion with her about being bi. The whole first half of the book is one great banter scene after another. :-)

I actually really dug the AU part of the story - Normally I hate that stuff (it confuses me and feels out of character) but this time, I liked it. I loved Ianto's desperate end - Although it leads me to the only plot-problem I had with the book... Ianto's reasoning in this last scene, and the fact that it actually WORKED, feels a bit silly to me. But hey, *serious* angst generated by said act - always a plus. There were times when the AU scenes had me going WTF? with minor details and timeline stuff and so forth - The author obviously didn't have a lot of space to devote to making this really polished - but the basic framework of the AU story was pretty cool.

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