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Oct. 23rd, 2008 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethBought this on the way home. Have now read it.
I think if it was the only book there today I wouldn't have picked it up. It's very pretty, but on the whole it's the Captain's Log from the BBC America site mixed with stuff from the Torchwood websites and with a few things added that, well, don't really add anything. It doesn't have a story or add any insight. It's nice, it's solid, it's not going away like the websites do. But it's a bit of a nothing much really.
But I was buying the three new Torchwood novels, so I put this on the heap as well.
I have no willpower about books. At all.
Couple of timeline things in there, some notes about character backgrounds, home addresses for everyone. And a note in the front to say it's not all reliable and the character who wrote it got some of it wrong. Which is handy, because that means it can be contradicted at will.
Gives Ianto a sister. Rhiannon Evans. And mentions in the people-dead-in-Torchwood-One a Gareth Evans. Bunny.
"Mum alive, in Newport, dad passed away 2002. Sister Rhi, married with two kids. Only family he had till hooking up with Torchwood Three in 2007"
"Got caught nicking clothes from Top Man in Newport when he was fifteen. Got four weeks for being lippy with the judge."
So there's little new things like that, bits of shiny. Still, as a book, bit odd.
One timeline problem - the report for Lost Souls mentions both that Tosh was working on a system called a Time Lock and "If only she could have got it working properly", yet it also says at the end "And Mickey Smith's back in town." Um, Time Lock happened before Mickey, yes? Maybe the 'properly' was the thing? Doesn't fit the tone though.
It's a bit annoying. If they'd missed that 'other staff issues' then Lost Souls could just slot in before the Time Lock incident.
Then there's the bit on the last page that says the imaginary author has vanished, possibly killed by Daleks. And Mickey checked the publisher's place for Jack. So that fits in After.
What else... Tosh body being released for Tosh funeral is in a memo. This makes me pout, because I had a bunny that requires it to be stored as per standard. Same with Lisa's body being melted with the cybertech, which I guess was written ages earlier but I'd forgot. But both of those were written in a future possibility way, things that are to be done rather than things that were done, so I can sneak in the changed-mind gap. Still contradicts things a tiny.
... nobody cares if fanfic contradicts.
So it's not an instant classic must have, but it is a shiny pretty thing I quite like owning.
I think if it was the only book there today I wouldn't have picked it up. It's very pretty, but on the whole it's the Captain's Log from the BBC America site mixed with stuff from the Torchwood websites and with a few things added that, well, don't really add anything. It doesn't have a story or add any insight. It's nice, it's solid, it's not going away like the websites do. But it's a bit of a nothing much really.
But I was buying the three new Torchwood novels, so I put this on the heap as well.
I have no willpower about books. At all.
Couple of timeline things in there, some notes about character backgrounds, home addresses for everyone. And a note in the front to say it's not all reliable and the character who wrote it got some of it wrong. Which is handy, because that means it can be contradicted at will.
Gives Ianto a sister. Rhiannon Evans. And mentions in the people-dead-in-Torchwood-One a Gareth Evans. Bunny.
"Mum alive, in Newport, dad passed away 2002. Sister Rhi, married with two kids. Only family he had till hooking up with Torchwood Three in 2007"
"Got caught nicking clothes from Top Man in Newport when he was fifteen. Got four weeks for being lippy with the judge."
So there's little new things like that, bits of shiny. Still, as a book, bit odd.
One timeline problem - the report for Lost Souls mentions both that Tosh was working on a system called a Time Lock and "If only she could have got it working properly", yet it also says at the end "And Mickey Smith's back in town." Um, Time Lock happened before Mickey, yes? Maybe the 'properly' was the thing? Doesn't fit the tone though.
It's a bit annoying. If they'd missed that 'other staff issues' then Lost Souls could just slot in before the Time Lock incident.
Then there's the bit on the last page that says the imaginary author has vanished, possibly killed by Daleks. And Mickey checked the publisher's place for Jack. So that fits in After.
What else... Tosh body being released for Tosh funeral is in a memo. This makes me pout, because I had a bunny that requires it to be stored as per standard. Same with Lisa's body being melted with the cybertech, which I guess was written ages earlier but I'd forgot. But both of those were written in a future possibility way, things that are to be done rather than things that were done, so I can sneak in the changed-mind gap. Still contradicts things a tiny.
... nobody cares if fanfic contradicts.
So it's not an instant classic must have, but it is a shiny pretty thing I quite like owning.