This was a far better fantasy than I recalled. It's really held up well & had all the elements needed to make it an excellent one; action, romance, & excellent attention to the realities of war, although the hyperbole factor was quite high. The best fighters were also the rulers, so they tended...
I came across this in a hotel room, and surprised myself by reading it straight through :)A thoroughly *fun* fantasy novel. It is actually the second of two books - I haven't read the first, though I'll have to keep an eye out for it. In the first a US soldier ends up in the alternate reality of ...