We Ride the Storm

Perfect for RR Martin's (or Gwynne's) fans, with excellent political fuckery and civil war (Princess Miko POV), very good coming of age epic/military adventures (Captain Rah POV) and, unfortunately, also pretty bad assasin-thief crap (Cassandra the posessed prostitute POV).
The sum is very captivating, still, and even though the author can't really write battles, she is amazing at character development (again, not you, Cassandra, but yes, Miko and Rah).
I am diving straight into book 2 and found myself a new must follow author!