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Feverishly trying to eradicate memories of her past, Jade Darcy starts a new life for herself on Cablans, a society several light-years away from her native Earth. After her acceptance into the alien society, Jade finds employment as a bouncer at Rix's Place, an alien bar and restaurant. As a guardian of order and justice, Jade leads a great life on Cablans until the unexpected arrival of another human. Jade chooses not to contend with the past she has worked so hard to obliterate. She prefers a terrifying death to a return to her Earthling past. And so, Jade takes on the job of launching an attack against the most dangerous group in the galaxy. Hers is far more than a suicide mission; it has the potential to destroy not only her but the whole galaxy.… (more)
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Jade is a mercenary. Currently she's fleeing bad memories and working as a bouncer in an isolated way station far out from normal human traffic, with only her house-computer for company. Her job is to smooth out any interactions between the various aliens dining at the only
However her concentration is distracted by news that another human has arrived, and bad memories continually surface. At the same time the aliens pick a poor time and race to choose to start a fight with. Leaving Jade with no option but to take her honour into her own hands - where it's always belonged.
The biggest problen I had with this is that the aliens are mere window dressing. Fancy costumes with no thoughts to practicalities, and very little in the way of personalities either. Everyone from one race behaved the same, just liek humans do. Not. The World's fun though, the 4dimensional Greeet particularly novel, and the story rips along nicely. Jade is sufficently non-perfect to be interesting, whilst still be competiant enough to be enjoyable, even if the oucome is never in much doubt. I didn't notice many particular inconsistences in the plot which is always good - even if the continual anchronism of knifes in SF remains.
Worth looking out for, and I'm hoping the sequel will continue to build the characters rather than just being more adventres.