Holly Lisle, Courage of Falcons
Warner (2000) ISBN: 0-446-67397-8
Score: 2

Conclusion of the Secret Texts trilogy, in which love conquers nearly everything (after about a million innocent people die).

Next Book: Jonathan Stroud, Golem's Eye (re-read), then Steph Swainston, The Year of Our War

Holly Lisle, Diplomacy of Wolves
Warner Aspect (1998) ISBN: 0-446-67395-1
Score: 2

Beginning of the Secret Texts trilogy, an epic high fantasy with lots of secrets, dirty politics, and betrayal. Good premise and worldbuilding; (you don't see many stories with werewolves in airships), and the good characters are well drawn (but the bad guys torture little girls to show you they're bad). A bit too much Fate and Destiny for my tastes, and I wish the heroine (who trained as a diplomat) was more suspicious of a certain character who keeps forgetting her cover story, but overall it's well written and engaging.

Next Book: Laura Resnick, Disappearing Nightly