I was never a 'Torchwood' fan, but I have enjoyed my local library's Torchwood audio books. Torchwood [:] Exodus Code is my first Torchwood novel.

I do remember Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who. I thought it was interesting that this novel was written by the actor who portrayed him and the actor's sister. The events from 1930 were fine. I enjoyed the adventure. Jack seeing a beautiful woman where his friend saw a black puma was intriguing.

I started having problems with the novel when only [some] women were being affected by something that was driving them mad, including attacking loved ones and mutilating themselves. I had no emotional attachment to characters Gwen Cooper and Rhys Williams, but what they were put through made me wonder if Mr. Barrowman had some issues with his co-stars.

At least Rhys gets to take care of his and Gwen's daughter while Jack and (eventually) Gwen -- and others -- save the world. I'm sure it would have made a nice movie. I did like the touch of the American soldiers who had no idea that their attempt to stop serial kidnappers could prevent Jack and friends from stopping the end of the world. It's not as if there had been time to get them to understand.

Knowing who wrote the book made the singing of Captain Jack's praises hard for me to take. I kept seeing Jack as the bragging Captain Zapp Brannigan from the old show, 'Futurama'.

Note: I just checked the Cambridge Dictionary website and the proper UK pronunciation of 'geyser' is indeed the same as the American 'geezer'. (If you're not American, a 'geezer' is a rude, but not obscene, term for an old man.) As an American, the mental image I got when the narrator talked about the enormous geysers erupting around the world spoiled the drama of the moment a bit.

Those reservations aside, this isn't bad. ( )

This is the last of the Torchwood books (I think). I was hoping for more to come. This was well written and entertaining. The focus of the book was mostly on Jack and more of his history. Recommended to Torchwood fans. ( )

I listened to Exodus code using the whispersync feature available from Amazon and Audible. I enjoyed the narration, but I do have a nit-picky observation: the word geyser is pronounced guy-sur; the narrator kept saying (hard g) geezer, and this kept making me giggle. Point: it was slightly distracting. Overall (and other than), the narration was good.

I did like and enjoy the story, I thought it was a nice spin-off to Miracle Day. I wasn't super-crazy about the end for two reasons: I thought it was a bit predictable (I kept saying to myself that they wouldn't possibly end it that way, something else HAS to be the solution) and I don't think (please excuse the absolute vagueness of my wording, I don't want to give anything away) a certain character's situation was explained enough for the ending to be completely satisfying for me.



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Quick read of a scifi book in the Torchwood series. Plot line is rather thin. Characters are consistent with the TV series, but lightly drawn. There is enough explanation of underlying concepts so that the book stands alone. ( )