Brighid's Quest

I love all of PC Cast's books. It helps to do a little research and read the books in order to help track the characters and how the intertwine through each book. I liked this one in part because it stays in one time space. Each of her books asks that you stretch your imagination and they bring folklore alive. Can't wait for the next one!

Like the best of writers, Cast's tone is so...real and unaffected that it seems like she must sit down and jot this off with ease. I don't know whether or not she does but I LOVE every one of her books. She's gotten better, too, since her first, Goddess By Mistake. It's also interesting to note that she's an English teacher at a Broken Arrow High School in bible belt Oklahoma -writing sensual and unapolgetically earthy works. That would seem to take as much courage as her heroines show. This particular book really reads best if you've read her other related work: Elphame. Treat yourself. This is escapist fiction...as good as it gets.

I am hooked on PC's books. This story was so good ~ not to put any spoilers in but I have to say I love who Brighid ends up with. We meet up with characters from Elphame's book & meet the new Formians & centuars from Brighid's clan. I know there is a long wait for the next books but honestly, they are worth it.

The evil race of demon Fomorians kidnapped and raped the women of Partholon taking them into the Wastelands to bear their offspring. The Goddess Epona united the people of Partholon to defeat the demons and a century later touched Ephame who took as her mate a hybrid Falorian and drank his blood and took the madness that existed in the hybrids into her self. Now the descendants of the children of rape can go home to Partholon. Cu, whose lover was killed by one of the hybrids, goes to the wastelands to check out the New Fomarians to see if they are as good and gentle as his sister's lifemate says they are. Brighid, the female centaur goes after Cu and finds the seventy children and handful of adults pure of heart. When they return home, Brighid's sister comes to the keep to tell her that the centaurs are going to war because their High Shaman, Brighid's mother was killed by humans. Brighid, who was running away from her legacy, knows she must drink from the chalice of Epona and become her High Shaman, and fight her brother and his allies before the land is bathed in the blood of battle. Although Brighid is a centaur and Cu is human, they love each other and mate for life. Their marriage can only be consummated if Brighid drinks from the Chalice because then she will be able to shapeshift into human form. P. C. Cast has written a fascinating action packed romantic fantasy where true love can conquer all. Both hero and heroine go through many hardships and it is only through their love they feel they can overcome all their hardships. This is a special work that will appeal to a variety of readers. Harriet Klausner

Well, PC Cast wanted us to believe the impossible and I am hooked. As usually I was blown away by one of her books. She has become one of my favorite authors and I suggest that everyone read about Brighid and her exciting and romantic quest. Superb!