I finished Malice by the excellent John Gwynne whilst at hospital with Celyn this week. It's taken me a very long time to read due to the many calls on my time, so I've read it in small chunks over many months - and that's exactly the opposite of how I would want anyone to read my own work. It's a particularly bad way to read complicated books, and with a GRRM-sized cast and many point-of-view characters this is a book that really needs your attention on it or you'll get lost in the whirl of names and places and politics. 
 Even so the story was still able to come to an exciting head for me in the closing stages with all manner of battles, betrayals and revelations. 
 I particularly enjoyed the battle scenes and duels. You get the feeling John knows a lot about swords and swordplay (no idea if he does or not). 
 I would call this an 'old style' book that reminds me of much of my reading as a teen but brought up to date in the same sort of way that Michael Sullivan has done with his work. 
 We see an on-coming 'god-war' / wide spread crisis as the first tremors of it reach into the lives of a collection of characters (mostly young men ranging from low-born to noble) scattered across the many nations of this world. There are intrigues and mysteries and we're often not sure who can be trusted. Various potential heroes grow over the period of (possibly a year?) and have their mettle tested. 
 The reviews on goodreads have been great and I can see a big readership for the book. Hopefully a US release will come along soon! 
 If it sounds like your thing... then it probably is :D 
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