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Castles Made of Sand (Paperback)

by Gwyneth Jones (Author)
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The BOLD AS LOVE series is a world of daring, dread and enchantment, a world that could almost be ours: a brilliant combination of myth, magic and pop culture. Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Fiorinda, charismatic leaders of the Rock-n-Roll Reich, have beaten the cascade of disasters that followed the collapse of the former United Kingdom. Now they have to find some resolution to the impossible dynamics of their own relationship, while the world keeps falling apart. There are fearsome things going on in England's rural hinterland, and in Continental Europe the green nazis are planning a final solution to desperate environmental damage. But there's nothing the Triumvirate can't handle - until Fiorinda's father, a monster of the kind the world has never before known, reaches out to reclaim his magical child, the flower-bride. And that's when darkness falls over Ax's England ...Harrowing ...enchanting - a dark fairy tale with an epic sweep, set in a world very like our own.


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Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton with her husband and son. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for BOLD AS LOVE, the first book in this sequence; CASTLES MADE OF SAND was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award. She is the previous winner of the James Tiptree Memorial Award and two World Fantasy Awards; four of her previous books have been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A worthy follow up to Bold As Love, Nov 17 2003
By George (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Castles Made of Sand (Paperback)
I thought that Bold As Love was brilliant. The best fantasy book I had read in years until I read Castles Made Of Sand which is even better.

All of the same characters except this time we know them better. Still brilliantly portrayed as we have come to expect from Jones. The menage a trois between the principles is portrayed as the fraught and dynamic thing that I suspect such arrangements will always be.

The action moves along at a cracking pace and I challenge anyone not to cheer when Sage does his stuff (I won't say more so as not to spoil it).

So, a more than worthy successor.

Roll on Midnight Lamp.

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1.0 out of 5 stars If you loved Bold as Love ..., Aug 16 2003
By "the_angel_jean" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Castles Made of Sand (Paperback)
... for the same reasons I did, you might hate the sequel.
I read Castles Made of Sand looking for resolutions and explanations, and expecting the same draw-you-in writing and plot as her earlier novel. Instead, the slick dialogue is much reduced, and what i thought was a celebration of friendship and relationships has deteriorated into a complete mess. And after all the buildup in both books, the final battle is fought between characters we don't understand. The one similarity with Bold As Love is that the lack of explanations is spectacular - but it was forgivable then, knowing that a sequel was coming. Ultimately, this novel is very unsatisfying.
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