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Ok follow-up to Bold as Love. Got a bit boring and didn't finish it.
Somehow I end up reading a book from the Bold as Love sequence on holidays. This is book 3 and the characters and setting is growing on me. It's important to be at rest for these books I find. Midnight Lamp has a nicely plotted story and the Triumvirate can't be trusted to share all they suspect or know with the reader, but that's fine. I love them the way they are.
A particularly enjoyable Gwyneth Jones book - her books are always intelligent and thought-provoking, but not necessarily a comfortable read. However this, while challenging in many respects, had me loving her central characters immediately, and following their story was a pleasure. Now I need to go back and read the first two books in the series, to understand their backstory properly!
Spoilers for the first two books, because it can't be otherwise.I actually don't think I can write an adequate review of this book without massive spoilers in general - and really, how do you review the third in a series of five, and do justice to it and the characters and everything else? This series is monumental, and much as I want to rush through and devour the last two I think it is a good idea that I leave a little time between them. Without that space I would just fall into Gwyneth Jones'...
Wish I had read the first book as well. Great premise, excellent writing. I will probably read the first one as this one was so good.
Though the third in the series, this was the first in the Bold as Love quintet that I read the 1st year I was a Clarke Award judge, didn't have the time then to go back and read the first two - and though I've just re read those again recently (in the right order this time), this one for me, still stands out as being the strongest. In this novel, Gwyn Jones shows her characters as flawed human beings, Ax, Sage and Fiorinda were all damaged in some way by the events of Castles Made of Sand, and t...
It was OK. Apparently the last in a series but I read it cold. It was engaging enough to see it thru to the end. Drugs and Sex and Rock and Roll. Throw in magic.Chop Wood, Draw water was a theme that was carried through.
The only bad thing about getting books by Inter-Library Loan is that if you put a loan on a series, it is guaranteed that you will get them all in the wrong order. This is the case with Midnight Lamp, which is the third book in the “Bold as Love” series, but which I have read second after the first book. Fortunately, this is not a major problem in following the plot, since the events of the second book are gone over in outline since the characters are currently recovering from said events.Our He...
