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judenoseinabook's review against another edition
3.0
A reminder of how much I enjoyed Torchwood on television. Wish they'd bring it back!
A fun read set in a luxury high rise apartment block. Captain Jack and co have to solve the mystery of the disappearing estate agent and deal with a evil criminal genius!
A fun read set in a luxury high rise apartment block. Captain Jack and co have to solve the mystery of the disappearing estate agent and deal with a evil criminal genius!
meganmargoking's review
4.0
Torchwood: SkyPoint had the distinct honor of being the only Torchwood novel Mr. Ford has had written and of being the last novel that featured main characters Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato.
As you see on the cover, Toshiko was huge. She covers 3/4 of the cover! It was really distracting to read this book with such a large Toshiko on the front cover. I'd be reading and then flip to the cover. Read some more and then flip to the cover. I think it was the biggest character I have seen on any of the Torchwood covers so far. I had no clue what they were trying to do with the background behind Tosh though. They had an opportunity and failed. The back cover however features a tall apartment building by the bay. So we can presume this is SkyPoint.
There were actually 30 chapters in this book. You wouldn't believe it if you saw the slimness of the actual book. I did the math (yes I did math... with a calculator) and each chapter was about 8 pages long. Pretty short chapters for a book of this size.
This novel was basically a love letter to Owen and Tosh. A last novelization for them before the end of season 2. The majority of the book was either in Tosh or Owen's POV. Don't get me wrong, each member of the team had a POV chapter. But since Tosh and Owen 'make their home' at SkyPoint for the operation, they were the main focus of the novel. The book even ended with a sappy Owen/Tosh(ish) moment. The author in his acknowledgements mentioned both Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori who played Owen and Tosh respectively.
Phil Ford liked to throw canon in your face as if it was a pie, and than smash it so he made sure all the cream got in all your crevices. What I meant was, Mr. Ford 'mentioned' something canon, from the TV show in every chapter. Almost every five pages. He forced the same facts on you again and again. It was like he was trying to get these facts into your skull. If you had seen the TV show, you know this stuff. It really does not bare repetition on this scale. However, if you hadn't seen the show or had seen little of it I can see where this would be useful. I thought it was cool at first but after a while...
Mr. Ford tried to 'give' an explanation as to why Gwen kept her maiden name. In fact, for a good part of the book she was referred to as Gwen Williams. But then for really no reason at all, she called up Rhys and said honey, I'm keeping my maiden name. Yeah.
I actually really liked this Torchwood novel. I thought Phil Ford did a great job. This book could be a little freaky if you are in the process of moving to a new place or have just moved into your new place. It was also has really dark themes about death; this was Torchwood and Owen.
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As you see on the cover, Toshiko was huge. She covers 3/4 of the cover! It was really distracting to read this book with such a large Toshiko on the front cover. I'd be reading and then flip to the cover. Read some more and then flip to the cover. I think it was the biggest character I have seen on any of the Torchwood covers so far. I had no clue what they were trying to do with the background behind Tosh though. They had an opportunity and failed. The back cover however features a tall apartment building by the bay. So we can presume this is SkyPoint.
There were actually 30 chapters in this book. You wouldn't believe it if you saw the slimness of the actual book. I did the math (yes I did math... with a calculator) and each chapter was about 8 pages long. Pretty short chapters for a book of this size.
This novel was basically a love letter to Owen and Tosh. A last novelization for them before the end of season 2. The majority of the book was either in Tosh or Owen's POV. Don't get me wrong, each member of the team had a POV chapter. But since Tosh and Owen 'make their home' at SkyPoint for the operation, they were the main focus of the novel. The book even ended with a sappy Owen/Tosh(ish) moment. The author in his acknowledgements mentioned both Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori who played Owen and Tosh respectively.
Phil Ford liked to throw canon in your face as if it was a pie, and than smash it so he made sure all the cream got in all your crevices. What I meant was, Mr. Ford 'mentioned' something canon, from the TV show in every chapter. Almost every five pages. He forced the same facts on you again and again. It was like he was trying to get these facts into your skull. If you had seen the TV show, you know this stuff. It really does not bare repetition on this scale. However, if you hadn't seen the show or had seen little of it I can see where this would be useful. I thought it was cool at first but after a while...
Mr. Ford tried to 'give' an explanation as to why Gwen kept her maiden name. In fact, for a good part of the book she was referred to as Gwen Williams. But then for really no reason at all, she called up Rhys and said honey, I'm keeping my maiden name. Yeah.
I actually really liked this Torchwood novel. I thought Phil Ford did a great job. This book could be a little freaky if you are in the process of moving to a new place or have just moved into your new place. It was also has really dark themes about death; this was Torchwood and Owen.
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anotsowickedwhich's review
3.0
Mostly Toshiko and Owen centric which is always a nice thing when it comes to Torchwood.
writerlibrarian's review
2.0
On the positive : Skypoint is interesting because time has passed since the second series finale and I was able to enjoy both Tosh and Owen. It's pretty much a Tosh and Owen book.
On the indifferent : It's mostly an Owen book even if Tosh is on the cover and Owen when alive was not my favourite character and as the walking dead even less interesting. Not a lot of the others characters. They are like ghosts in the plot. In the end you don't really care how the story ends.
But Tosh is fantastic.
On the indifferent : It's mostly an Owen book even if Tosh is on the cover and Owen when alive was not my favourite character and as the walking dead even less interesting. Not a lot of the others characters. They are like ghosts in the plot. In the end you don't really care how the story ends.
But Tosh is fantastic.
believedcrazy's review
4.0
So this book isn’t perfect. I didn’t learn a great deal more about any of the members of Torchwood, and there was barely any characters shown in depth besides Owen and Tosh. I did like the plot, it was exciting once it got going and actually became enjoyable to read, though I did think a little too much of the book was dedicated to build up.
That said I read this because I had Torchwood withdrawl. Spoiler for the show: I reached the end of series 2 and Owen and Tosh had just died, and I wasn’t ready to leave them so I had to read this . If you’re a fan of Torchwood pick this up, it’s a fun read, and I hope I get the chance to read the other Torchwood books at some point.
That said I read this because I had Torchwood withdrawl. Spoiler for the show:
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