I finished up Paul Kearney's
Kings of Morning... which concludes the Macht Trilogy. I love Kearney's writing and I enjoyed this series—but this was probably my least favorite of the three (not that it wasn't a worthy read). It just seemed odd for him to be glossing over battle scenes like he did. Particularly the battle that could arguably be considered the most important in the entire series (the fictional equivalent of Alexander's Battle of Gaugamela). Detail is one of Kearney's strongest suits, and he seemed to go entirely "big picture" here for some puzzling reason. Plus, the book just seemed to start too late, climax too early, and all plots work out a little too quaintly for my tastes.
Corvus was a great book, where this one was just OK for me. My biggest complaint was...
!!Big, big spoiler!!
I'm starting
The Waters of Eternity... a collection of short stories starring scholar Dabir ibn Khalil and swordsman Asim el Abbas by Howard Andrew Jones. Jones is a Harold Lamb scholar and fan, and these short stories are very reminiscent of Lamb's exotic adventures (especially those starring Abdul Dost) and R.E. Howard's Sword and Sorcery style.