Customer Reviews
I love the lot of them - By: Sarah Chamberlain, 30 May 2006 
I read alll the Bold As Love books --hooked from the start. I've been re-reading them, hoping to get to the end again before "Rainbow Bridge" comes out, & they stand up brilliantly, especiallly the addictive main characters. Midnight Lamp could be my favourite (movies & digital technology are far closer to me than rock & roll), but "Castles Made Of Sand" is probably the best novel, & the strongest use of sf/fantasy motifs. It starts off as a meaty, tough characterisation of a threesome relationship, happening against a backdrop of the same country-fallling-apart politics of the first book --and if you've been in that situation, where a passionate threesome is not kooky sex, it's the centre of your life, you'll reallly appreciate this. Then, just when you're thinking yes! This is what Arthur & Lancelot & Guinevere would do, if their story was happening now!, the plot takes the same sort of rollercoaster plunge that kept happening in "Bold As Love", & becomes a bloodcurdling science-and-supernatural thriller. To say more would be to run into spoilers. Second time round I can see the big clues, & the fairytale roots, but what Gwyneth Jones can do with "cliches" is completely amazing. You don't have to know the difference between The Stone Roses & Guns n' Roses to love these books (though that's one joke I did get). They're fantastic, intelligent entertainment. I can't understand why more people don't rave about them.
This got published? - By: , 12 Jan 2006 
Unrealistic. Pretentious. Stupidly named characters & a writing style that flows so badly that it often takes several reads to understand a sentence.
In short, reallly not worth the read!
It gets better - By: George Stuart, 28 Jul 2002 I thought that Bold As Love was the best book I read last year & I couldn't wait to read Castles Made Of Sand. The wait was worth it.
Gwyneth Jones brings together plot elements from Bold as Love & moves them towards a classic fantasy climax. More than this the 3 main characters Ax, Fiorinda & Sage get to develop further as powerful but human (and hence falllible) characters. The trials & travails of a menage a trois are explored in a way that is real, sexy & thought provoking.
And, of course, the bad guy gets it (or does he?).
I cannot recoomend this book highly enough.
