New Spring

During a time of war, a couple of girls with special talents attend a school for girls with "superhuman" talents. They become involved in a quest to find a special "dragon baby" that was foretold to do very bad things. On completion of their schooling they are initiated in to the cult of "gifted" women. They then discover that some leaders of this cult are corrupt and causing problems in the world and manage to kill one. And then the book ends.

The book is very descriptive, but the pacing is slow and the plot really goes nowhere. It feels like it is setting up some larger story (as it is.) I wonder if there is a concise fantasy writer out there?