OK, so now I know what Cynthia was on about (scroll down). Amberlight is one of those books that really demands a proper review. It is, in its way, quite wonderful. Yet it features an ambitious prose style that I suspect won’t be quite classy enough for those who love Hal Duncan but will be “too hard” for those who don’t. And in these days of “either with us or against us” politics it is probably nowhere near hardline enough to please the Feminist community (in fact it may well be labeled traitorous). Nevertheless it is intense, imaginative, intelligent and also a good read for heterosexual females. I loved it.