Reading Recommendation: Canticle, by Ken Scholes

I finished Canticle at the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, sitting in my twelfth-story room while morning light washed the night out of the sky.   This is book two of  The Psalms of Isaak, which is planned to be five books (the first book is Lamentation).

This series is an engaging for me as the George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire."  The books are a little shorter and are coming out more regularly, and so I feel like there's a chance of an epic fantasy series that will begin...