I had seen the name Gwyneth Jones crop up again and again so I decided to try one of her books. This is volume 3 in a series of which I have not read the first two (something I intend to fix!). Despite that I found it easy to get into the plot and the characters.
The pace is fast and the characters are complex and real. I really cared what happened to them all and worried how Jones was going to get them all intact to the end. The book is set in Mexico and the Western United States. I found the sense of place convincing even though the author is English and speaks with an English voice.
Magic, music and mayhem - what more could you want? (except love, passion, drugs and a dastardly plot to develop a super weapon of course! - all delivered)
Highly recommended.