Torchwood: Skypoint

The second book in the current Torchwood book series is Skypoint by the author of Fragments Phil Ford! No, wait… could easily be mistaken that he was the one.

This story continues the classic plot line of: get a bunch of people stuck together and slowly kill them off. That might not sound original, but Phil really mixes it up by having the Torchwood crew endlessly spend far too much time lost in their memories of their times before they joined Torchwood… he really must have liked Fragments as many, many pages are devoted to replaying the moments that we saw on screen. Gah! We saw the episode, they’re traumatised, we get it!

The main villain and monster is rather lame. No reason Phil didn’t focus on it, it really isn’t worth the effort of trying to get to it. And the ending is really quick and pathetic too. Bah. Really, really bah.

The crew are well done, but we’d hope so from Phil. The residents of Skypoint are… he tried to make them interesting, but doesn’t devote as much time to them as the memories of Owen, Tosh and Ianto. (Seriously, man, just watch that episode again yourself and don’t inflict it on us.)

In fact, that’s a decent summary of the book. Go watch Fragments and avoid this book.

Order: Gwen’s just back from her honeymoon, so between Something Borrowed and From Out of the Rain it is!

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