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Rainbow Bridge is the fifth and more or less final novel in the sequence Gwyneth Jones began with Bold As Love (there is a sixth book set in the same universe, published several years later, but that appears to be a YA novel with a different main character, rather than part of the main continuity). It begins more or less where the fourth left off, in a near-future, post-oil England which has just been invaded and is under military occupation, and sees Ax, Fiorinda and Sage (Jones's near-future r...
I found this a year ago as a giveaway in a bookshop in Helmsley , North Yorkshire and I've finally struggled through it and I am none the wiser. It's obviously well written but largely incomprehensible to me. But now I've discovered that this is volume 5 of 6 and if I'd have known possibly I would have started at the beginning ? Why doesn't say on the book somewhere I wonder?
considering that i looked for evidence and could find nothing to indicate this was part of a series no wonder i was baffled and occassionally shocked by this book,convinced there must be a backstory.and yay! there is!
Jones's disjointed style and multifaceted perspectives can be difficult to follow. Is this product of a radical England suffused by music redolent of that musical progression (now deceased) and a green future that never materialised? The book strikes a note of hope, now lost, as the culture celebrated has warped away from the path mapped by Jones. The book is now a might have been, a lost fable.
And now I must bid farewell to Ax, Sage and Fiorinda having reached the end of the Bold as Love series.It's been a weird ride. The narrative structure is disjointed and strange in a way I'm not sure I've seen before (or would necessarily want to see again), we've roved seemingly haphazardly from event to event, gig to gig, viewpoint to viewpoint. This is rather cheekily alluded to at the end of this book. I have not been able to get the slightest grasp on most of secondary characters, I still fi...
I think Gwyn Jones certainly saved the best for last. The book was amazing and finished the series off with a resounding success. I can see echoes of Spirit in this novel and to me it has more of a relationship with the world she describes in Spirit than the one in White QueenThe book is still too vivid in my mind to say much else at the moment, except I can see that I'm going to have to reread it soon. In the meantime, I will think of Ax and Sage and Fiorinda with their daughters Cosoleth and F...
The cover blurb described this as "Iain Banks on acid". My immediate thought was, "Well, if I had to name an author who really didn't need pharmaceutical enhancement, Banks would be one."Still, the comparison to Banks is not entirely inapt. Certainly, Jones and Banks share a tendency to create fantastical but fantastically detailed futures, with a bit of sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll about them. Jones doesn't have quite the whimsical tendency of Banks - there are no spaceships with funny names or
