Torchwood Novelisation: Skypoint

This book is pretty much for all the Owen/Toshiko shippers who were never quite satisfied that all they ever got was episode 13 of season 2. Pretty much.
It focuses more on Owen than Tosh though, which makes this the THIRD Owen-centric novelisation that I’ve read in their little series. I’m beginning to think the authors really like him. Or his sense of humour. One of the two.

Um… it’s set RIGHT after episode 9 of the second season and the plot is pretty much set up by Rhys dragging Gwen to look at a show apartment. During the show-around though, the real estate agent ends up disappearing. With no signs of Rift activity, it’s investigation time!
Unfortunately, this means Owen and Tosh have to play house (for all of six hours, maybe) as cover.
Yes, this is rather amusing and they fail rather spectacularly.

As it is set after the wedding, there are some very forceful reminders that Gwen is unlikely to ever be with Jack. There’s some rambling about how Rhys is so accepting and is her hero, plus some general cheekiness when they’re being shown around the shiny apartment. (Including what they do on the kitchen counter that is NOT chopping up vegetables.) Oh, and a moment when both Capt. Jack and Gwen are exposed to psychotropic gas and he has to restrain her.
In general it’s a very Rhys/Gwen, Owen/Toshiko, Ianto/Jack book as far as shipping goes, although you barely see any of that last pairing. There’s one scene in the Hub, where Capt. Jack is doing up his shirt buttons and Ianto adjusts his tie (there’s more context in the actual book, but you get the idea it’s just very lightly touched on) then there’s another slight reference when Ianto’s trapped in the elevator and there’s a couple across from him and he hopes that Jack’s all right.
No writer seems to be able to strike a balance that pleases me. *sighs*

( Eh, at least there’s plenty of humour scattered about. )

( There's actually nothing really outstanding concerning OwenTosh except for this one bit... )

The ending is completely anti-climatic though and Tosh was the damsel in distress, which distressed me a bit, because while she isn’t the brawn of the team by any means, but Tosh =/= helpless.
And er… that’s it? My dad is currently stuck halfway through it, but I managed to finish it in less than 24 hours? (It’s a really slim book, only 250 pages.)

*goes back to reading*