Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion, Book 1)

I really enjoyed this, and I'd recommend it to any fantasy reader who plays D&D and has a military background. It's been quite some time since a book really captivated me and kept me reading even "past my bedtime," as it were. This one did, and I expect I'll eventually set aside time to read the rest of this series. Not a small cast of characters nor a trivially built world, and I think I'd have done better at keeping track of things when I was younger or at least had fewer distractions and demands on my time.

2.5 stars. I liked this book sometimes. Paks is a very compelling character, and her story is interesting. Unfortunately, the long stretches of march in which nothing happens except a changing description of the geography Paks marches through are very boring.
Admittedly, a lot of this marching contains incredible amounts of detail of the day to day life of an infantry soldier, detail many books leave out. Early on, I found the exploration of the effect of mud on marching foot soldiers very interesting. There was just too much of that sort of description and the book slowed down too much at these points.