This was my first Torchwood audio, and I really enjoyed it. I've missed having the entire group together, so this was a nice treat, and Naoko Mori did an excellent job narrating. Looking forward to the next one. ( )

This was really stinking good. It was almost better than watching an episode. The story was intriguing, the characterizations were well done and the natration by Naoko Mori was excellent. ( )

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1277018.html

The first of the non-printed series of Torchwood audio books, by Stephen Savile and read by Naoko 'Tosh' Mori, set before the end of Series 1, so with a full five-member team. I am getting into these, I must say, having enjoyed The Sin Eaters earlier in the month: Naoko Mori has a quiet voice, but is intense when she needs to be, and also is good at doing the others' accents without sounding like she is taking the piss. The story is a decent variation from the Torchwood standard, with seventeenth-century alchemy and modern genetic research combining to make a respectably sfnal plot, with also plenty of good character moments (Jack and Gwen, ironically enough, getting fewest of these). Anyway, brightened up a few days' commute. ( )

I'm not very good with audio books but I think I did fairly well with sitting down to listen to this - I think I drifted off for a couple of chapters but not more.

In this adventure, the team are left to their own devices when Jack is taken by police for questioning after a helicopter crash and a car crashing into a tree, killing a group of related people. ( )

Naoko Mori (Toshiko Sato) has a lovely voice, but the story didn't make much of an impression. I didn't write a review immediately after I listened to it and now I don't remember what it was even about. ( )