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Coincidentally, I just started Daughter of Mystery tonight. So far it hasn't totally sucked me in, but I expect that to change once the mystery plot gets rolling. I'll be happy to trade impressions with you once I'm done with it.

If I were going to recommend one Kim Stanley Robinson book to read, it would be The Years of Rice and Salt. It's the most ambitious alternate-history setting I've ever encountered, because he starts from the postulate that the Black Plague kills 90% of the humans in Europe instead of just 30%, and then tries to work out which civilization(s) would move in to fill the gap. It's also told as a series of vignettes with a framing story, so you can tackle it in reasonable-sized chunks instead of the whole tome at once.