Although Series 1 of Torchwood had a lot of problems that were all addressed in Series 2, there were still some good elements to come out of it, and a couple of curious unanswered questions, one of which is answered in The Twilight Streets, and if you can't guess from the cover that question is...whatever happened to Bilis Manger?
The story is rather interestingly written with a number of different fonts used in the printing to indicate the various different aspects of the story that we are seeing. As events transpire there are secrets that both Manger and Captain Jack have been keeping not only from us, but also from Torchwood, and both have a history that goes back a little bit longer than they knew. We also discover that what we thought we knew about Abaddon is also not entirely correct, and so The Twilight Streets takes the final episodes and turns them completely around.
Gary Russell is not a brilliant writer as shown in his previous Doctor Who novels, and like those The Twilight Streets is a competent book with a large dose of what Craig Hinton used to lovingly describe as "fanwank". However, if you are the kind of person who likes those sort of novels, and deep down inside I have to admit that at the end of the day, I am, you will like this book.
"B"
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