If you enjoyed Santa Olivia

[jesse_the_k]

as much as I did, you may be interested in a 2000 indie movie called GIRLFIGHT. You can watch it free online. The lead, Michelle Rodriguez, is outstanding. No SFnal elements, but there's plenty of chewy boxing scenes (but not brutality for its own sake), class, race & ethnicity issues, and a love-hate relationship with greater NY city.

also posted to LJ comm

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[were_duck]

Also if you enjoyed Santa Olivia, you may be interested to hear a sequel has just been published!

Thanks for the film rec, I have been meaning to check this one out. Unf Michelle Rodriguez.

[jesse_the_k]

Great news! And the first chapter of the sequel Saints Astray, is available to read or download at this link.

At her site, Jacqueline Carey says

begin quote  Having known nothing but their very circumscribed lives in Outpost, I wanted to give my teenaged heroines [Loup and Pilar] a chance to experience the world writ large, with exuberance and aplomb. Of course, they're also dreaming about a chance to liberate everyone they left behind, which will prove a dangerous undertaking... but they have a lot of fun along the way. I hope all of you do, too! quote ends