The Steerswoman

Ended a little abruptly, but happily I had Book 2 ready to go.

Hmm. This is a bit of an oddity. At times it feels like an exam question (If Tom throws a ball at 5m/s from a height of 2m, where does the ball land?) punctuated with random throwaway violence and unrealistic dialogue. There seems to be a nugget of an interesting premise, but very little is explained by the end of the first book. I am sort of tempted to read the next one, if only to confirm that the story is heading in the direction it appears to be heading, but I'm going to check the reviews first in the hope things improve...

(update: the reviews appear to indicate that the second book gets better, so onto the TBR list it goes...)

Recommended very effusively by a college friend. I read it and I think it's... fine! I liked it well enough, I'm not sure I see what got him so excited about the series. I like that the heroine is just a smart lady, and not secretly a princess or a sorceress or anything like that.