Teaser Tuesday: As I Descended, Dark Orbit, & Like a River Glorious

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature, hosted by Jenn at Books and a Beat.

Everyone had crappy things happen to them, but that was life. You moved on. You dealt. You forgot about the crappy stuff and kept on living. You didn't have any other choice, right?

~ As I Descended by Robin Talley, Kindle Location 1895 (ARC)

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"I wonder what he's doing working guard duty for Epco." 

 "Feeling it's beneath him, that's for sure," the doctor said. "But maybe that's normal. I don't know much about Oremen." 

"They believe the closest relationship in life is between predator and prey." 

 David's left eyebrow went up. "What nice people."

~ Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman, pg. 34

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"Wally." Dilley acknowledges him with a tip of his hat. He spits a stream of tobacco onto the ground beside his horse, and the gelding flicks a tail in irritation. "Nice to see you up and about, even if you're not the man you used to be." "I'm twice the man you ever were," the Major says cheerfully. "Even with half as many legs."

~ Like a River Glorious (The Gold Seer Trilogy #2) by Rae Carson, Kindle Location 942 (ARC)

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