I Read Books: Midnight Lamp
(This is Gwyneth Jones' novel Midnight Lamp named after the Jimi Hendrix song Burning of the Midnight Lamp and not anything else called Midnight Lamp)
Rockstars Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Firoinda saved England (also Europe and the world) from magician-gone-critical Rufus O’Neill, Fio’s father (see Castles Made Of Sand). Ax resigned from being Dictator and the three are now lost in Mexico, trying to recover. (Sage lost his liver, Fio her mind – sometimes.)
They get an offer to make a film about the Rock-n-Roll Reich, but this is a cover story. The President is worried that there are plots to make a human neuroweapon, another O’Neill. There’s a secret, or perhaps “secret” military project, but Sage and Fio aren’t worried about that. They’re concerned that there might be a Hollywood natural magician being supercharged by global audience adulation, similar to O’Neill.
Anyway, British musicians try to “break” America, and Hollywood at the same time, meanwhile some detective work on occult crimes, finally a wild west showdown.
Read This: For the middle, American book of the Bold as Love series, depicting how to recover after saving the world, and how the world, while saved, is no better than it was before.
Don’t Read This: Because you wanted the Bold As Love series to be about England and don’t care about America, or maybe occult plots do nothing for you.
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