Torchwood: Into The Silence
by Sarah Pinborough
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Author: Sarah PinboroughEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-08-18
ISBN: 1846077532
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Random House UK
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- ISBN13: 9781846077531
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Book Reviews of Torchwood: Into The Silence
Book Review: Sarah Pinborough cuts a serious swathe of "chilling" drama!
Summary: 5 Stars
I will have to admit that I am Torchwood Obsessed, and Sarah Pinborough's "Torchwood Into The Silence" is the tenth novel in the line of BBC Torchwood Books, and marks her first authorship of a title in the series. I ask, Sarah, that you "please!, please!", come back and do another one!.
"Into The Silence" takes place after the end of Torchwood Season Two, but before the cataclysmic events of "Children of Earth". Though, a later adventure, Pinsborough manages to write a story that returns us to more to the unknown territory of Torchwood Season One- in that she shows that Torchwood, and the reader, can still be awed by the appearance and nature of an alien we could never have suspected existed. Its modus operandi of killing is one that we're horrified by so that we sympathize and frazzle away alongside the Torchwood team. And yet, this creature, while still frightening us, also manages to gain our sympathy. Yes, this is an alien. literally from the nether regions of the universe, with a bizaare reason for mutilating victims, but it is a reason we're compelled to want to understand.
The character handling is top-notch, and each of the Torchwood members, Jack, Gwen and Ianto grow the way we would expect them to given what the plot and drama demand. We're also introduced to the charming down-and-out DI Cutler, who has his own history with Torchwood One of London. This connection draws Jack into taking him on board in the team's effort to apprehend the alien and stop the murders.
"Into The Silence" is a near Perfect Torchwood Novel. I have one very bizaare and petty complaint. It's the one thing and only thing that for me at times distracted me from imagining the whole thing happening live as if a televised episode. For reasons known only to Sara Pinsborough, it seems that every character entering or exiting the Hub, always enters or exists via the invisible lift in the center of the HUB. Maybe the front Tourist entrance was destroyed in one of the later episodes of Season two and I'm not recalling it. The books are set up, regardless of the author's style, to fit into and correspond to a certain point in the televised adventures. But whatever the reason, it seems that in this book, no one enters or leaves the HUB, ever, by the rolling "gear" entry.
Still, if this is my only issue (and questionably relevent), you'll be denying yourself a serious pleasure if you don't sit down and read Pinsborough's book. If you love Torchwood's proclivity for strange aliens - you'll love "Into The Silence".
Summary of Torchwood: Into The Silence
The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they've been dissolved! With the Welsh amateur Operatic Contest getting under way, music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff. The competition has attracted the finest Welsh talent to the city, but it has also drawn something else - there are stories of a metallic creature hiding in the shadows. Torchwood is on its tail, but it's moving too fast for them to track it down! This new threat requires a new tactic, so Ianto Jones is joining a male voice choir... Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.Movie Tie-Ins Books
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