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The living dead walk the streets of Cardiff in the latest novel in the bestselling Torchwood range
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When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk! Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach home. A stolen tugboat is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood must now contend with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show! 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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Torchwood and Zombies, an excellent pairing!,
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This review is from: Torchwood: Bay Of The Dead (Hardcover)
This is the second Torchwood book I've read recently, and after my enjoyment of The House That Jack Built it was only a short matter of time before I got into the next one on the shelf. I had a choice between this and Into The Silence, but when you've got zombies on offer there is very little you can do to turn them down! It was with great anticipation that I sat down to see how a zombie story could fit effectively into theTorchwood setting, and boy did I enjoy every minute of it!
The setting once again is Cardiff and although this is a Torchwood novel, you wouldn't really notice it from the first few chapters. We get to see the zombie attacks from different viewpoints and start to follow other characters along with Jack, Ianto and Gwen. What's good about the way the story is told is that Jack and Ianto are together, Gwen and Rhys and then further groups of different people. This really does help the story and I was extremely pleased with the way the novel unfolds. Although this looks like a typical zombie attack, there is that Torchwood twist at the end and the reasoning behind everything is believable and realistic - well, at least as far as any typical Torchwood story is! The pacing is spot on and doesn't slow much at all which makes for some adrenaline fueled scenarios and mad escapes. Of course, the zombie killing is gory in the only way zombie killing can be and Mark Morris has done a wonderful job at giving us what any decent zombie story should do. I won't go into too much detail about the characters, suffice to say that the main ones are exactly as expected and play their roles well. It was nice to see Gwen's husband, Rhys, getting plenty of page time and he and Gwen played off each other really well, although Jack and Ianto weren't quite up to the same standard but still work well. The supporting characters were more detailed than I expected and had a depth that was surprising, especially for those that weren't on the page for more than a handful of times. All in all, this is the best tie-in novel I've read and will probably be the best zombie novel I'll read this year. Compared to Stephen King's Cell, the last zombie novel I read, this is far superior and so much more fun! Highly recommended for both Torchwood fans and zombie lovers.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The (Un)grateful Dead,
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This review is from: Torchwood: Bay Of The Dead (Hardcover)
I've read all the Torchwood tie-in novels and have to say that this wasn't one of my favourites. The concept of a Cardiff overrun with flesh-eating walking dead is a good one, however it just seemed to go on for too long and to be too generic, both in terms of Torchwood and Zombie tales. Mark Morris is a strong writer, but this just didn't grip me, and the innuendo between Ianto and Jack just seems a little tired and stale. I admit that if this was one of the first Torchwood books I had read I would probably have felt more kindly disposed towards it, but hopefully any future novels (and there are none planned to date) will reflect the TV series' mandate to change direction and become fresher.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Torchwood:Bay of the dead,
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This review is from: Torchwood: Bay Of The Dead (Hardcover)
Torchwood: Bay Of The Dead ("Torchwood")
This is the 11th book in the series. Unlike the others (i've read all of them) until the end it doesnt follow the 'Traditional Torchwood Tales'. There are far more characters in it than normal (and thats not counting the Zombies), Jack and Ianto are working as one team and Gwen and Rhys as another and they dont come together till the end. It has a very good start to it but then for a couple of chapters feels like you're reading a book version of 'Shaun of the Dead' or similar; it soon gets back on track though and into a sort of Torchwood style feel. You get to know the additional characters well, which in this book you need to as it does skip from one scene to another a lot. Not much flirting between Jack and Ianto in this book. Still a great read with the usual Torchwood twist or 2.
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