I found the Jack written in it a total arsehole, to be honest.
I thought it was wonderfully creepy, and the whole idea of what the Undertaker's Gift actually was was chilling, but the way Jack was written and how in this book he has a complete obsession with Gwen, while dismissing Ianto like you would a waiter at a table, just didn't sit right.
Yes, Jack has a thing for Gwen, but ... when he does weapons training, all he can smell is Gwen's perfume? Really? He didn't even seem that bothered when he discovered that Ianto was being eaten alive.
Gwen had some weird agenda to prove to Jack that she didn't need him and she could do anything and everything by herself with absolutely no assistance, and Ianto just sort of ... hung around.
The plot is the strength of the book, but it's brought down by bad characterisations. Ironically, Baxendale's other Torchwood novel is really rather good :S
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I thought it was wonderfully creepy, and the whole idea of what the Undertaker's Gift actually was was chilling, but the way Jack was written and how in this book he has a complete obsession with Gwen, while dismissing Ianto like you would a waiter at a table, just didn't sit right.
Yes, Jack has a thing for Gwen, but ... when he does weapons training, all he can smell is Gwen's perfume? Really? He didn't even seem that bothered when he discovered that Ianto was being eaten alive.
Gwen had some weird agenda to prove to Jack that she didn't need him and she could do anything and everything by herself with absolutely no assistance, and Ianto just sort of ... hung around.
The plot is the strength of the book, but it's brought down by bad characterisations. Ironically, Baxendale's other Torchwood novel is really rather good :S