- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (8 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575076453
- ISBN-13: 978-0575076457
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,045,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hard times and sweet music: scandal and betrayal for Ax as England embraces the fearsome new world order.
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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 out the first hard winter after the A team destroyed crude oil in ostentatious poverty. He's quite certain he can negotiate a better deal. But while Ax and Sage and Fiorinda are embarassing the English government over conditions in the new slavery labour camps, bad things are happening for the President of the USA. Fred Eiffrich's enemies in Washington are about to drop a bombshell, one that will shatter any hope of a return to former realities, former certainties. What happened at Lavoisier is not over. It's coming back, it's never going to end. At least not while Fiorinda lives . . . or her child.
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Format:Paperback
Fast paced action novel that's the third part of Gwyneths Bold as Love series. Great characterisation demonstrating an understanding of the human psyche as well as the continual character growth, the visual descriptiveness works extremely well and on the whole a cracking series to have on the shelves and one that will demand a reread something that very few manage to do.
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I have to take exception with "Trashman"'s review: Band of Gypsys is Gwyneth Jones at the top of her form, and the world she's created IS credible, and savage, and alarmingly believable. Not only has the United Kingdom dissolved; whole societal structures have disappeared, and in the background the Second Chamber plots and manipulates in a desperate attempt to get hold of the neurobomb.
The Triumverate remains the only hope, even as Ax's plans go horribly awry and the forces of evil prevail. This book is full of surprises and twists that go in ways the reader never expects - but looking back, you can see how skilfully the author has laid in the clues, and how all the insane logic makes sense in its own way, pointing to further horrors that could lie ahead. (Jones is particularly good at is stimulating the reader to think about the story and what's going to happen next.) That includes the Chinese invasion of England (why not?), the paralysis of the United States in its own convoluted political processes, and what's going on in Scotland and Wales.
It's also a deeply moving love story of Ax, Fiorinda and Sage, and the people they care for. The pressure on them all never lets up, and the urgency never lets go of the reader. And then there's the fact that Fiorinda may be pregnant...
It's a wonderful, atmospheric read, about people who really seem to exist. I'd recommend it to anyone - but if you're new to the series, start with Bold as Love and work through the whole terrifying, colourful world. If I have any complaint, it's that the books are too short; there's room for many more stories in the series.
The Triumverate remains the only hope, even as Ax's plans go horribly awry and the forces of evil prevail. This book is full of surprises and twists that go in ways the reader never expects - but looking back, you can see how skilfully the author has laid in the clues, and how all the insane logic makes sense in its own way, pointing to further horrors that could lie ahead. (Jones is particularly good at is stimulating the reader to think about the story and what's going to happen next.) That includes the Chinese invasion of England (why not?), the paralysis of the United States in its own convoluted political processes, and what's going on in Scotland and Wales.
It's also a deeply moving love story of Ax, Fiorinda and Sage, and the people they care for. The pressure on them all never lets up, and the urgency never lets go of the reader. And then there's the fact that Fiorinda may be pregnant...
It's a wonderful, atmospheric read, about people who really seem to exist. I'd recommend it to anyone - but if you're new to the series, start with Bold as Love and work through the whole terrifying, colourful world. If I have any complaint, it's that the books are too short; there's room for many more stories in the series.
Format:Paperback
For the fourth episode of Bold As Love Ax Preston returns to England to take on the Green President job. It's a challenge.The Green Right "neo-feudalists" who never really lost control of the government have many of the millions who lost everything in the Great Crash rounded up in labour camps. More surplus consumers are effectively neo-serfs in domestic service, sold off to pay their debts. But the ruling junta conceals even uglier secrets, and they're after the vital parts they need to build a Neurobomb, the new weapon of mass destruction the USA accidentally launched, with devasting effect, in episode three.Cue for another hip, slightly skiffy, costly-yet-life-enhancing victory for the peace and love agenda, the formula as before. Be warned,that's not what happens. Everything really does go horribly wrong, after Ax tries to keep faith with a liberal US President who is on the way out, destroyed by his own hell-bent right wingers.The reader watches with nailbiting frustration as the heroes (and heroine) make terrible, doomed, sincere decisions that are absolutely in character, while faint bulletins from the global situation report the inexorable approach of the end.It's hard to guess where the story can go from here, but I'll have to find out, fearing the worst and hoping Jones is not too ruthless with the characters, because no one could put this series down unfinished. Bold as love gets tougher, and much more real this time, but still delivers gripping entertainment. Not so much a rock and roll fantasy, more a biting contemporary satire: anyone who finds the world events, or the state of England, in Band of Gypsys merely 'preposterous' is in deep denial, or has been sleepwalking through the twentyfirst century.
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