Paul Kearney, "Ships from the West"

On a series-wide note, this is one of the finest fantasy series I've yet had the pleasure of reading. Rarely these days do I read a series straight through without taking breaks between the volumes to read other books, but I plowed straight through this one. Fans of R. Scott Bakker (Prince of Nothing), Joe Abercrombie (The First Law), and GRR Martin (A Song of Fire and Ice) will almost certainly derive great enjoyment from this. Anyone who enjoys well-written, bare-knuckle, serious fantasy would be well off giving this series a try.