Blade Dancer by S.L. Viehl
Not my typical reading, as it was more science fiction than fantasy. Incidentally, this is the third first-person POV book I've read lately, and the next one on my list is as well. Feast and famine with this sort of thing.
Anyway, the book is about a female half-breed who is banished from Terra when people discover their favorite shockball player (Jory, our narrator) is not all human. She is given a quest by her now-dead mother to find the seven others like her and tell them the truth about their lives. Bonding, fighting, love, sex and death all follow. Actually a fairly decent book, if anyone wants to borrow it.
"Even then, I had trouble getting into the rhythm of stab-push-heave. Not like I'd had a whole lot of practice digging draves in the desert in the middle of the goddamn night."--Jory, p. 4
"MacDonald."
"MacDonald who?"
"Old guy. Liked hanging out with a lot of non-human types, you know?"--Jory and Prissy Hands, p. 11
"Holy High Bitch."
"Now that's one I haven't been called before."--Gill and Jory, p.26-7
"What are you? Complusively neurotic?"--Jory, p. 103
"Either Uzlac had a fascinating collection of etchings, or Kol wanted to yell at me. I was guessing the latter."--Jory, p. 113
"Slavery is extremely overrated. So is playing contact sports."--Jory, p. 125
"Birdie had pretended not to notice, but I'd shoved them away and told them out loud what they could do with their various sexual organs--or what I could, if they kept it up."--Jory, p. 156
"I can deal with the jeers and the shoves and the challenges thrown in my face every five seconds, but I have a real problem when it's the trainers who are doing it."--Jory, p. 209
"If we had wings I might cluck like a chicken...Terran bird. Ill-tempered, usually ends up fried or baked."--Jory, p. 300
"Kol's was the first face I saw when I regained consciousness, and I allowed myself to be a silly, emotional female and cried all over him."--Jory, p. 306
"My father had ended up a human brain encased in a drone body; I was simply going to have a fancy peg leg."--Jory, p. 307
Anyway, the book is about a female half-breed who is banished from Terra when people discover their favorite shockball player (Jory, our narrator) is not all human. She is given a quest by her now-dead mother to find the seven others like her and tell them the truth about their lives. Bonding, fighting, love, sex and death all follow. Actually a fairly decent book, if anyone wants to borrow it.
"Even then, I had trouble getting into the rhythm of stab-push-heave. Not like I'd had a whole lot of practice digging draves in the desert in the middle of the goddamn night."--Jory, p. 4
"MacDonald."
"MacDonald who?"
"Old guy. Liked hanging out with a lot of non-human types, you know?"--Jory and Prissy Hands, p. 11
"Holy High Bitch."
"Now that's one I haven't been called before."--Gill and Jory, p.26-7
"What are you? Complusively neurotic?"--Jory, p. 103
"Either Uzlac had a fascinating collection of etchings, or Kol wanted to yell at me. I was guessing the latter."--Jory, p. 113
"Slavery is extremely overrated. So is playing contact sports."--Jory, p. 125
"Birdie had pretended not to notice, but I'd shoved them away and told them out loud what they could do with their various sexual organs--or what I could, if they kept it up."--Jory, p. 156
"I can deal with the jeers and the shoves and the challenges thrown in my face every five seconds, but I have a real problem when it's the trainers who are doing it."--Jory, p. 209
"If we had wings I might cluck like a chicken...Terran bird. Ill-tempered, usually ends up fried or baked."--Jory, p. 300
"Kol's was the first face I saw when I regained consciousness, and I allowed myself to be a silly, emotional female and cried all over him."--Jory, p. 306
"My father had ended up a human brain encased in a drone body; I was simply going to have a fancy peg leg."--Jory, p. 307
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