But! Leviathan! I haven't read a good fantasy-ish bit since February (The Lazarus Gate does not quite qualify as "good", I'm afraid). And it hasn't been an adventure since January or so. I've enjoyed everything I've been reading lately but how I have missed this stuff!
After his royal parents are killed in Sarajevo, Aleksandar finds himself piloting a mechanical walker through the forest with a small band of men who will tell him nearly nothing, trying to outrun the forces of his own country who pursue him. Meanwhile in England, Deryn Sharp vies for a place in the Air Service, hoping her disguise as a boy will fool all the boffins, middies, and bosuns and keep her in her home, the sky. War is coming to Europe, and tensions between the mechanical-engineering Clanker countries and the bioengineering Darwinist countries are worsening. But aboard the huge airship Leviathan, Darwinist Deryn and Clanker Alek are both pursued by Germans and must ally to save themselves and their countries.