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"Torchwood": Something in the Water by: Trevor Baxendale List Price: £6.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.53 You Save: £2.46 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781846074370 ISBN: 1846074371 Label: BBC Books Manufacturer: BBC Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: March 06, 2008 Publisher: BBC Books Studio: BBC Books Sales Rank: 22015 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Totally sick... in a good wayPerhaps the slickest and paciest Torchwood novel thus far, Trevor Baxendale's Something In The Water sees everyone's favourite gang of sexually explicit Ghostbusters going up against things that go splat in the night in the local bog. That may not sound like an especially appealing summation and its not - although what the Torchwood team investigate in reassuringly non-toilet based. And that's basically the plot summed up, really! I felt Something In The Water was a far easier and more entertaining read than its three predecessors, which seemed to be marred by plodding and often unnecessary attempts at fleshing-out the TV characters. Baxendale hits the ground running a lot more here, and there's less time spent pondering the grief ... Read More: Rating:  - Something in the WaterThe 4th Torchwood novel find the team up against a serious dose of strep throat, as an alien water hag spreads an infection throughout Cardiff... For the most part 'Something in the Water' is good stuff - the water hag has enough historical background to be more than just another random 'alien of the week' and makes a viscious enemy, there are some enjoyable scenes of horror and action, and the regular characters are all true to their television counterparts. If the novel has a flaw it's with the ending, with the lack of clear rationale behind the creatures plans for the Rift dissapointing, while the fact that the adventure is concluded more with brawn than brains doesn't make this a memorable finale. Nevertheless, despite ... Read More: Rating:  - Something in the waterGood read for Torchwood fans. There is a lot of cutting back and forth between actions, especially at the start but it all comes together quite nicely. As mentioned in the review by Hadrell there is perhaps too much decriptive text of the 'nasties' but I felt it gave a good visual image of just what the Torchwood team were up against. After all, Torchwood is aimed at adults, not children. Found the book engrossing enough not to want to put down. If you can stomach the vivid desriptions of blood, snot and gore, it is a good read. Rating: - Nothing special but not badI like the book but contrary to the other Torchwood novels I have read before, it lacks depth. On a superficial level the book is entertaining but it is nothing special. The characterizations are accurate but the author didn`t do anything with them that adds something, that challenges them or even shows some interesting interactions. You can feel the bond between these people and find some nice touches of humour but there was nothing I found really engaging. The story itself felt like a "connect the dots" exercise because everything was so predictable. This was a blood, gore and snot story in which these graphic descriptions seemed to be more important sometimes than actually dealing with the characters as people. We have a female monster ... Read More: Rating: - don't drink the wateran original novel based on the bbc tv science fiction show torchwood, featuring a team of investigators who deal with otherworldly threats to cardiff. the book runs for 249 pages of relatively large print and is an original story not one seen on tv. all the characters are captured perfectly. and the story, to judge by some of the lines in it, takes place in between the third and fourth episodes of the second season of the show. The plot is decent involving torchwood uncovering an alien threat that spreads an epidemic. And it did make me care about the fate of one supporting character. But there's nothing more to this book than that, really. It's a decent little torchwood story that offers ... Read More: |
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