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I just finished Heather Rose Jones' Daughter of Mystery and enjoyed it tremendously. The book is a very low-key fantasy - there's magic but it isn't visible most of the time. The setting is a Ruritania-type European country called Alpennia, and it's a very lived-in world, with its own inheritance conventions, relationships between royalty/nobility/gentry/clergy, and so forth.
The book is from a small press and unfortunately a bit pricey by modern e-bargain hunting standards, but some of you may have obtained it in a recent Storybundle. I plan to pick up the sequel.
My favorite read of this month was Adrian Tchaikovsky's Spiderlight. This is a short fantasy quest novel with the standard archetypes - cleric, mage, warrior, thief, archer. And, of course, the giant spider. Tchaikovsky has a background in biology and is known for writing "bugs" well. (His Children of Time recently won the Arthur C. Clarke award for SF, and I need to read it too.) Spiderlight takes D&D tropes in some unexpected directions along the way.
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