By: Mark Morris Publisher: Random House UK Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 256 Publication Date: August 19, 2009 Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Random House UK
Product Description: 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.
Jhaeman's Review ^ Bay of the Dead by Mark Morris was a pretty mediocre Torchwood novel. It's a standard "zombie apocalypse" story, with a little bit of a twist in that the zombies are mostly simulcra created by a comatose, alien-infested ("Leet of the Dellacoi") guy who had been stricken at a horror movie festival. But basically, it's a very cliched story with little new to offer to the zombie genre or Torchwood. Nor is there enough humor or character development to gloss over the rather boring plot. The author seems to think that having the characters make a few knowing references to pop culture zombie movies suddenly makes this particular take a clever one, which simply isn't the case.
A couple of notes:
* We hear here that Captain Jack has a bit of a rivalry with a "tall, slim, beautiful black woman" police detective named Swanson (who apparently first appeared in They Keep Killing Suzie).
* We see PC Andy's new partner, Dawn Stratton.
* We get a first, brief look at a really fun character in The House That Jack Built, old man/alien Alexander Martin.
* Despite the title, nautical-oriented fans should know there's only one minor scene set on Cardiff Bay.
Horror, oh the horror! ^ I am not really into zombies. Shaun of the Dead was as far as I will go with that type of movie. So this kind of grossed me out. Still, there was some joy and some happiness and a lot of head shots. Gamers and zombie movie lovers should love this book. It is one of a kind in the torchwood series - none of them have zombies! While I do miss the characters of Tosh and Owen there was an advantage to having only three members of the team - the author was able focus all the details and energy on those three characters. Get it used or new.
Torchwood: Bay of the Dead ^ This is the first book I ever read from torchwood. I am a fan of the series and also I already knew the character's. I actually brought the book from the book store because I couldn't wait to read it. I not finish let with the book! It like a horror book with twist and turn's. So people who like horror book's you will enjoy the book or like torchwood series you like it also too. I won't spoiled it because it begin when two people go through the fog, end's going in circles and also see dead people who attack them. You have to figure it out when read on your. I never read the doctor who book's to critizen the book's but I watch the series to me it's kind of boring. But torchwood Capt. Jack is more a action hero then the doctor. And also I check on the viewer's point view about the doctor who book's that all like science, boring and to much of examine alien's.
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