The thing that grated with me was how the Janto moments, perhaps not the interrogation banter, felt forced in. As if after the first draft, the writer was told "by the way ... you need to have Jack thinking about Ianto occasionally, y'know".
And all the extravagant similes the writer used just ... read like bad fanfiction.
And the 'buddy' nearly made me throw the book across the room.
It's like between Baxendale's previous novel and this one, he's totally forgotten what the characters are like, and just gone ahead with OMFG JACK AND GWEN ethic, squick be damned.
And Rhys wasn't even in this novel! He was nicely hidden away in Gloucester at a haulage convention wtf?
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Date: 2010-05-12 04:24 am (UTC)And all the extravagant similes the writer used just ... read like bad fanfiction.
And the 'buddy' nearly made me throw the book across the room.
It's like between Baxendale's previous novel and this one, he's totally forgotten what the characters are like, and just gone ahead with OMFG JACK AND GWEN ethic, squick be damned.
And Rhys wasn't even in this novel! He was nicely hidden away in Gloucester at a haulage convention wtf?