From Christmas Critics.:If submerging yourself in a fully furnished fictional world that goes on and on is more to your taste, you can do no better than to seek out the hard-to-find Bold as Love series by Gwyneth Jones. Think of it as a quest. For a free taste, check out the series Web site, a mu...
In White Queen, Jones introduced readers to the Aleutians, mysterious aliens whose reproductive process appears to be a method of assuring immortality for the individual. Now, North Wind picks up the story of Bella, who may or may not be an alien, and the human Sidney Carton as they search the wa...
Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Fiorinda have beaten the cascade of disasters that followed the collapse of the former UK. Now they've to find some resolution to the impossible dynamics of their own relationship, while the world keeps getting stranger.
Phoenix Café concludes the tale of the Aleutian invasion in a hip, dark, violent novel. Another hundred years on, the Aleutians prepare to leave both Earth and a humanity transformed in strange and sometimes unpleasant ways by two hundred years of alien exploitation. The Aleutians have the space ...
As a first contact story, I liked the book. The Aleutians are fascinating, if kinda gross--there are a lot of references to waste management and underwear before you ever get an explanation--and by the end I really wanted to know more about them. The alien/human politics leading up to the climax ...
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 ...
The riveting new instalment in Gwyneth Jones's award-winning 'Bold As Love' saga. Ax Preston, former dictator, returns to England; he's agreed to take up the job of Green President. At close quarters he finds some outrageous details in the contract, so the Triumvirate decamps for Paris, to sit ou...
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 s...
The text from the hospital, confirming she was allowed to visit her mother, arrived after breakfast. She took both messages to the Book Room. Tallis was there, in the draggled dressing gown, same pose as before, reading Black Beauty. But her lamp was a wind-up. Heidi explained that she had no cho...
thought Anna, as she slowed for the Services. I was a Catholic Princess. Like Cinderella in the fairy tale, elle s’estoit bien. I was brought up by my Spanish-nostalgic grandma and French-Enlightenment-nostalgic nuns and my Socialism-nostalgic mother to believe that I had the power and the duty t...
Fogged in the confabulation of the transit, I groped through crushing aeons to my favourite breakfast kiosk: unsure if the soaring concourse outside Parliament was ceramic and carbon or a metaphor; a cloudy internal warning—Now what was the message in the mirror? Something pitiless. Some blank-ey...