Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey
Review by Elleanore G. Vance Killashandra Ree has trained at the conservatory for years. The Maestro has told her that with her natural ability of Perfect Pitch, all she needs is time and training to be a starring soloist. Except now, a decade of hard work and dedication later, he is telling her that there is a defect in her voice. She will only ever be a chorus member. Her life's ambitions are dashed in an instant. She is far to passionate to be a member of the chorus, so she packs her bags and heads to the spaceport While trying to decide what she wants to do with the rest of her life in the spaceport bar (where else does one contemplate life's big questions?) She meets a man from Ballybran. Well, okay. He's not "from" there. No one is "from" Ballybran, he works there as a crystal singer. They hit it off and he talks Killashandra into showing him around. They have a fun time for a few days, maybe a month, and then he announces that he needs to ret