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On Christmas Day I finished Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins, an unusual fantasy with a Russia-like setting. There are firearms and trains, but road transport is still horse-drawn, so I'd guess the technology is around the turn of the twentieth century. There are also giants, strange elemental creatures, and the bodies of angels have fallen from the sky. I enjoyed it, but this first volume is not very self-contained. The second book is already out, in the UK. I'm not sure how many there are going to be.
Last night I also finished The Boy with the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick, another enjoyable fantasy* with an Italianesque flavour. I expected it to be a city-based rogue sort of thing, but it turned out to be almost exactly the opposite, taking place among noble families an a large castle. My enjoyment was almost ruined by a remarkably poor kindle version, with about 20 instances of missing text. Really unacceptable for a book published in 2014, and I'll be dropping Gollancz an email about it later, when I've checked on another device.
This was apparently also a Book 1, but is a complete story in itself, and I'm not really even sure where it can go from here.
I don't know if either of those are even published in the US.
* I have a slight suspicion it might not really be fantasy at all. We'll see.
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