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Since posting here last time I have read Brechalon by Wesley Allison, Dreamshade by AJ Lath and Tales from the Green, Book One, by Steven Best.
I'm working my way through Scryer's Gulch, (MeiLin Miranda), which is being published as a serial so I'm trying to read it a section at a time as I catch up to get the serial kind of feel. It is throughly enjoyable.
I'm also part way through Tales from the Green, Book Two.
All of the above are by MR members, that is my compromise in looking for good stuff in the mountain of material at Smashwords. I don't poke around blindly there as the good-find-per-time-unit-spent ratio is so low, I just follow links from here to see if the books look worth reading.
Brechalon is the novella prequel to Allison's Senta and the Steel Dragon (fantasy) series and showed enough interesting world building for me to go ahead and buy the rest of the series that is out to date. You don't really get to know the characters very much but there are interesting glimpses into what may be people to care about in future full length books.
Dreamshade and Tales from the Green are children's books, fantasy's both. Both have a few rough places but were worth sticking with. Dreamshade has a premise I've never seen before, having to do with childhood "imaginary" friends while Tales from the Green seems at first glance to be pretty a standard quest-elf-dragon but the author has a sense of humor and throws in enough twists to keep me interested.
In paper I finished (rereading) Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells and (in a startling departure from the recent fantasy binge) reread Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout. I only reread top flight books and they both fit that description.
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