Product Description

Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre, and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a shopping center? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto's actions at a local publisher have a cost for Torchwood more than half-a-century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7529 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

Newton's first law
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This new torchwood book centres around that fact. In that it considers the consequences ot the teams actions, and the fallout from all of their missions.

Unlike other torchwood books, this is a collection of stories rather than a novel. it runs for 255 pages and contains five stories plus brief acknwoledgments and notes on the writers. There's a fair amount of adult content so it's not really suitable for young readers.

The stories run from roughly 40 to 60 pages each.

story one, the baby farmers, involves the original torchwood cardiff team, briefly glimpsed in the second year of the show. Alice Guppy, Emily Holroyd, and Charles Gaskell. Plus their freelance operative Jack Harkness. a tale of torchwood investigating a ship being used for a school and the horrors they discover onboard, it's nothing out of the ordinary plot wise, but there's a superbly realised victorian setting, and what we saw of this team on tv made me eager to see more stories featuring them, so this is a welcome and entertaining read.

story two, Kaleidoscope, is set in between the first snd second seasons of the show, as the team try to adjust whilst jack is absent. They get involved in a typical case of something alien thats come through the rift falling into human hands. In this case a boy with an abusive father. And the device he finds has several suprises. Both a decent look at how the team tried to adjust to the absence of their leader and how it affected each of them, and a very well written tale of ordinary life for the boy in question, this is pretty memorable stuff and the end will live with you for a while.

Story three, the wrong hands, is set in between the second and third series of the show and features another case of alien technology getting into the wrong hands, as a gang hassling a new mother and her baby get more than they bargained for. This is a bit more conventional than the other stories but it has it's moments, not least the true nature of the threat which you really won't see coming.

story four, virus, follows on from the above and sees the team face the consequences of how they resolved things in the wrong hands. it leaves gwen and jack in danger, and ianto has to save the day himself. how far will he go? a great showcase for the character. also look out for an appearance from a character seen just once in the tv show.

story five, consequences, plays a lot of clever tricks with the narrative as it's presented as a manuscript written by a lady detailing her encounters with the torchwood team. but she forgets things. what? and why? one you have to work at to begin with, but stick with it because the nature of the threat here is a very original and rather scary idea. and the team have an interesting solution to it. This one contains a fair bit of continuity to the tv show and other torchwood novels, but you don't have to be familiar with all of them to get into it.

All in all a nice idea that comes off very well and a really good read. And the final story ties into an earlier one in a very clever way. you'll see what I mean....

Torchwood: Consequences
Good Reading. Even the Torchwood people are human and sometime have to make difficult decesions and live with those desesions. Hopefully there will be more Torchwood novels!