Okay, so I know I'm late to this party. Thirteen years late, to be exact. . .Since all the recent/new SFF releases I've read since returning from the Middle East have more or less killed my reading pleasure, I wanted to try something tested and true. I've been meaning to read Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books for years, so this seemed to be as good a time as any!And 250 pages into Europe ), I'm loving everything about it! I'm aware that Carey has since published over a dozen novels, but this was her debut and it's as impressive as it is awesome! Head and shoulders (thus far at least) above debuts by such quality writers as Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Scott Lynch, Naomi Novik, and Peter V. Brett, Carey'shas left me quite impressed on all fronts. Don't know if the author can maintain such quality and intrigue till the very end, but so farcould well be the best fantasy debut I have ever read. . .I commend this one to your attention!Here's the blurb: