Antiphon (The Psalms of Isaak, #3)
As always with this series, I was supremely confused until about halfway through when everything started to make sense and I remembered why I was so desperate to hold the next book in my hands the year before. The story of this world is really exciting, and nothing like any fantasy I've ever read before. Maybe that's one of the reasons I find it so confusing.
Other reasons: that's just Scholes's style, no exposition. BUT I feel like he could work on his description a little. I need it to be vivid so that I don't have to read through two hundred pages of story before I can understand an image that occurred on page ten.
I'd imagine the whole series will read better the second time through, because as is, the whole experience of reading it is more like decoding a difficult puzzle than following a narrative: worth it if you have the patience to figure it out, completely meaningless if you don't.