The Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham. Only halfway into first book of this 4 part series. Just wanted to say I'm so happy to finally be reading something good. Has been too long. Finally some detail and character nuance. Finally found a new good writer, thank god.
The communicating by body positioning thing is interesting. I wonder what it adds as opposed to just describing emotion/facial expression, etc. Maybe it just makes it a bit easier for the writer. Will have to read books in other worlds by Abraham to compare.
He has a blog I'll have to make sure not to read.