The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

When reading this book, I get the same feeling while reading China Mieville's Perdido Street Station, i.e. a feeling of being immersed in a wonderful new world which is so unlike most you read in fantasy novels. That is, of course, a damn good thing. There're also similarities between Jaqueline Carey's Kushiel series to this, in terms of the intrigue and interplay of power and politics. Looking forward to Book 2 in the series.