Torchwood: Risk Assessment, by James Goss

[beccaelizabeth]

Go. Buy it. LOL.

... yeah, that's pretty much my review. If I start typing the funny bits I'll type half the book. And if I type the scary adventure bits I'll type the other half.
Plus the LOL contributes to the plot and the plot is necessary to set up the LOL.
The relationships are front and center and important and everything. And, also, funny.

This is a proper good book.

Comments

[beccaelizabeth]

having just written that long thing last night about how OCs can take over a story I will admit she rather seems to, but it's funny so I don't mind.

And I'd like to say everyone else is in character, but there's intermittent stupidity that is less fun than it could be. Yet much funny.

Also if I wasn't so busy LOL then Ianto spending the whole story worrying about his inability to make tea, being called Jack's catamite and ganymede, and getting drunk, would be sort of... well, he does have all these research skills that could possibly be of use too? But there's some paragraphs of him being research and cover up guy as well, so I think it balances out.

Also I do like that people do the unworky yet obvious thing repeatedly. You don't just skip to the working solutions.

Plus it pulled off a good one on timing - it got to the end of one part of the story and I hadn't noticed there were still quite a few pages and a story left unwrapped, so the continuation was a surprise, which is a very good trick that says the writer was doing it right.

So I still say it's good, even when I've poked it looking for flaws.

[beccaelizabeth]

Oh drat, just noticed one - with the loss of Tosh the story gets very white. I realise in a book random people may or may not be white, but, of the characters we actually know about, very white. Since I've got fed up of that on TV I think I should stay fed up of that.