Torchwood: Pack Animals

Over to more Doctor Who reading, this time picking up the Torchwood books (set during series two). First up, Pack Animals by Peter Anghelides.

Another book based on an exciting card game, MonstaQuest in this case. Fortunately, it's not really about that, but about the guy who created that game and seems to have based his monsters a little too closely on known Rift-related creatures. (Although the tiger on the cover doesn't really feature, although Gwen in those boots do.)

There's a lot of padding here as Peter takes a lot of time detailing people being attacked by various creatures, and then various members of the Torchwood crew deal with these attacks in various way. Without really that much variety. It's not until over half-way that the real plot is uncovered, but even then a lot of pages are passed without anything happening. And as for the ending... 'anticlimactic' doesn't quite cover it.

The crew are moderately well captured, but just aren't on screen all that much, and we don't get inside their heads at all, they are just there on the page being a part of the scene without being characters that we connect with. The other characters are all too flash-in-the-pan to care about.

A lot of a 'meh' book. The best thing about it is the cover.

Order: refers to the upcoming wedding and Owen's dead, so between A Day in the Death and Something Borrowed then.

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