Volume one of the Sundering, an epic two book fantasy series about a war among and between gods and men. Madeleine Yeh, who's doing the review, says, "I stayed up all night reading it...it's rich and believable and horribly tragic. It's deliberately set like Lord of the Rings, only told from the view point of Sauron and his servants who have been horribly misunderstood.

(Source: Tor)