Making my slow way through Ellen Kushner's Riverside trilogy. Intriguing. Her men are primarily beautiful, passionate, envious, loving and vulnerable, while her women are primarily intelligent, powerful and unemotional. I've been trying to think of another author who so successfully switches the gender stereotypes. Forget "successfully," I can't think of an author who does this at all. It's addictive.
privilege of the sword. that's the one i read. i recognize the cover. =)