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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “This book was amazing. Elphame was a fantastic heroine. And Lochlan... swoon. It had some sad parts, and it mad me cry. Looking forward to the next one.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It0 of 1 members found this review helpful “I'm not interested in reading about centaurs getting it on with demons (or whatever that character was). Sad, perhaps, but true.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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Janet~ NO MORE PRIMARY SCHOOL :O wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I'm not really into the fantasy genre but picked it up as I love PC Cast's HoN series. I throughly enjoyed it .”
Lisa R wrote this review Wednesday, October 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“love it, i love elaphame's relationship with her brother, who is so sweet ”
Dani wrote this review Tuesday, October 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No1 of 1 members found this review helpful“This book was amazing. Elphame was a fantastic heroine. And Lochlan... swoon. It had some sad parts, and it mad me cry. Looking forward to the next one.”
Aine wrote this review Monday, September 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Epona is the goddess that Etain feels most drawn go. Etain is a normal human and is close to giving birth. Her husband, though, is a centaur. Etain is Epona's representative to the people, the goddess incarnate.
Ranko wrote this review Friday, May 1 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
There's a reference to a race of evil beings called the Fomorians who had been fought long ago.
Then the book jumps from the birth to Elphame, the girl child, when she is 25. She possesses mostly th body of a normal human, but her legs taper to centaur hooves. Elphame wants to get away from her mother and the other people because she feels the other people don't really accept her since she is so different from anyone that has even been seen, then or before.
She and others renovate an old castle. In the process she meets a being who is part human, part Fomorian. As expected, they fall in love, and the ultimate outcome of their relationship is known right from the start.
What the reader is unsure of is how the secondary relationship turns out, that between a scarred healer, Brenna, and Elphame's brother, Cuchulain. This is the more interesting part of the book, actually.
It's a decent book, but not really great.”
“Yikes. No pulled punches on this one. I can't believe she.... Okay, no spoilers, but I suspect that's one of the things that makes this "fantasy with romantic elements" rather than paranormal romance.
DKayeS wrote this review Thursday, December 4 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
It takes place 2? 3? generations after Goddess by Mistake, in the same world. The heroine is half-human, half-centaur--looks a bit like a satyr, but horse instead of goat, and is the descendent of the couple in Goddess by Mistake.
She's the goddess incarnate, but all she's ever wanted is to be treated like an ordinary person. All her life, she's been pulled to this castle ruin, so she, her brother, and a bunch of misfits set about restoring it, and they build a community and a home along with a fortress.
She also finds her life mate, also a hybrid, but he's half-human, half-Fomorian--a sort of winged vampire, a demonic race that was believed to have been exterminated.
So she's torn between her new friends and responsibilities and her heart, and he as well is torn between his heart and a prophecy that claims her sacrifice is all that can save his people from succumbing to the madness of their demonic forefathers.”
“Elphame was born with the horse legs of her father and the upper body of her mother. Not a centaur but something that seems closer to a faun with horse legs. I imagine the next generation will have horse legs and wings or maybe winged centaurs”
Megan_Bamford wrote this review Thursday, December 13 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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