I only know of the Cartomancy b/c I was wandering through our new, shiny local half-price bookstore (with a gift card from a friend - yay!) and the cover caught my eye. :D I'm just lucky like that sometimes...

Do you really think Novik might win the Hugo? God, I hope not. I mean, I guess her writing style is technically good, but her plots are repetitive and her characterization rather shoddy in the last ones. I felt like a lot of the characters became stereotypes the further along we went...