A review by nightshade_novels
Torchwood: Into the Silence by Sarah Pinborough

4.0

This was an interesting concept for a story that had so many strands to it. These strands could make it a bit difficult to keep track of what was actually happening, but not in a bad way.
I loved the fact that Ianto ended up

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singing as bait for the alien, it amused me greatly.

There were lots of other little jokes that made me laugh. There were also several allusions to the events of the TV series’, which is always nice for a fan.
Amazingly I didn’t realise for ages what the point of the autistic boy and his mother’s storyline was for. He sang all the time he was awake to try and block out the world. The conclusion to this book was really nice.

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The boy’s mother realised that she really did love her son just before she died trying to protect him. Then the boy and the alien merged so that the alien could take him back to the silent planet. This worked out perfectly for both the boy, who got to escape the world’s noise, and the alien, who got someone to sing for it to break up the monotony of the silent world.

I was very pleased with this ending and the book receives four stars.