Torchwood booksies

[fitzsfool]

Well, purchased two Torchwood books on Christmas Eve - Slow Decay and Border Princes. Here are my thoughts on them (under a cut for spoilers)

BORDER PRINCES:  Well, a new member,eh?  Of course, he isn't.  Not really.  Though Gwen does find the time to shag him rampantly.  Border Princes' characterization was a little... off for my taste.  Now, I'm

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[doyle_sb4]

Though Gwen does find the time to shag him rampantly.

Wait, what? So she cheats on Rhys *twice* within three months?

[fitzsfool]

I'm thinking that it's set before her and Owen got it together, purely because of a few things that are mentioned in the book and the way Owen and Gwen act towards each other. In fact, I'm betting that the author didn't even know what happened in anything after the first three episodes, if that... Anyway, James (Gwen's hump-partner) isn't really human. Or a member of Torchwood. Or real, come to think of it..

[doyle_sb4]

I'm betting that the author didn't even know what happened in anything after the first three episodes, if that...

That's very likely, I think these were written well before anything was aired - the writers might have seen a few scripts but that's it.

[elfinessy]

So I've cancelled my orders from Amazon...! I've never got on with tv-tie-in books, but if these are off on the Jack/Gwen angle that the show, thankfully, has drifted away from, I don't want to read them. If the show went that way I'd stop watching it with the same speed I stopped watching Stargate SG1 when Jack and Sam got together! I love Jack for his ambiguity, for his commitment only to himself and his own agenda, and as much as I obviously worship Jack/Ianto for its glorious slashiness, I like to think Jack isn't there to stay....

[doyle_sb4]

If the writers were only working off the scripts of the first few episodes, it's not surprising they're playing up the Jack/Gwen (and have Gwen as the central character). We can cross our fingers for the next set of books to be by people who were able to see the finished show :)

[fitzsfool]

Awww no! I think that future books will have more of a Jack/Ianto slant because of the way the series is going. Have to say that Gwen's feelings don't seem to be reciprocated, and there is a great bit in Border Princes where Jack cracks on to a male alien..

[elfinessy]

oh okay! :-) Cos I love the show so much, I've ordered them from Play, cos they're £2 off each book!