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I read Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence over the weekend, and thought it was great. A first-person narrative from a properly twisted anti-hero. Pretty short for an epic/heroic fantasy, but unusual and well-told. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett was also good. I mentioned it in my last post when I was in the middle. Another off-beat fantasy. It was sold to me as a fantasy version of George Smiley, but I don't remember Smiley getting in that much trouble. In that sense it didn't really work for me - I felt I spotted a few turns of plot before our supposedly bright heroine, who also managed to walk right into an obvious trap - but it was a very interesting world, with a background of real gods and extremely powerful miraculous magic, and lots of colonial and technological complications.
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