Brighid's Quest (Luna S.) [Import] [Paperback]

P.C. Cast (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon (Aus) (June 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0733569463
• ISBN-13: 978-0733569463
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

More About the Author

P.C. Cast was born in Watseka, Illinois, and grew up being shuttled back-and-forth between Illinois and Oklahoma, which is where she fell in love with Quarter Horses and mythology (at about the same time). After high school she joined the United States Air Force and began public speaking and writing. Since her tour in the USAF, she has been speaking and teaching professionally.

Ms. Cast is an award winning fantasy and paranormal romance author. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious: Prism, Holt Medallion, Daphne du Maurier, Booksellers' Best, and the Laurel Wreath.

Ms. Cast writes the popular Goddess Summoning Series for Berkley Publishing. The forth book in the series, GODDESS OF THE ROSE, A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast, is a Feburary 2006 release.

In December 2004, LUNA (Harlequin's single title fantasy imprint for women) released ELPHAME'S CHOICE, the first of five epic fantasy novels set in the world of Cast's popular first book, GODDESS BY MISTAKE. BRIGHID'S QUEST was her December 2005 release, with two more installments in the world of Partholon scheduled for release in 2006 - including a special LUNA edition of GODDESS BY MISTAKE, under the new title DIVINE BY MISTAKE, and it's never before published sequel, DIVINE BY CHOICE, which will be available December 2006.

P.C. Cast is an experienced teacher and talented speaker. If your organization is interested in information about her workshops or presentations, please contact her publicist, Sherry Rowland of Siren Promotions at 918-625-6526 or [e-mail].

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating action packed romantic fantasy, November 30, 2005

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brighid's Quest (Paperback)

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

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Venture to a time and place beyond reality, where dreams and magic linger...., April 19, 2006

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Kelley Hartsell "Kelley" (Irving, TX) - See all my reviews
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Venture to a time and place beyond reality, where dreams and magic linger....

Brighid Dhianna has left behind her centaur home of revenge and hatred to build her own destiny as Huntress to Clan MacCallan, blessed by the Goddess Epona. Here she has finally found peace and acceptance. When her chieftain, Elphame, sends Brighid on a quest to bring her brother home, she readily accepts.

Cuchulainn's soul was shattered when his young wife was brutally murdered by demonic Fomorians, winged beasts cursed with a madness that will eventually destroy them. Some of these beings have survived war and live in peaceful exile, scraping out a meager life in the mountains. "Cu" goes there full of hate and bitterness to return these hybrid New Fomorians to Partholon. What he finds there shocks him.

Brighid follows Cu to save him, having to call upon her dormant and long-denied Shaman blood to retrieve his soul and heal him. Just as hope springs new, fate intervenes once more, making Brighid choose between the life she has built in Partholon and the destiny of her blood as High Shaman to the centaurs. Which will she choose? Only Goddess Epona knows.

Brighid's Quest is a fantastical adventure that will lure one to dream of another world. The story draws readers in from the beginning and holds them captive in its grasp through the hopeful conclusion. The landscape is brilliant and so incredible that it is easy to envision the beautiful Partholon and the grass covered plains of the centaur domain. When the beloved characters venture into the spirit realm, readers will see the beauty and hear the stirrings of wind through the trees. Though this is a sequel to Elphame's Choice, most of the storyline is easily followed and readers should have no difficulty understanding what is happening.

Brighid's turmoil is real as she tries to put the life she hated behind her, only to be pulled back to it just when she thinks she is finally free. Her journey on the path to adapting to her Shamanic abilities is a hard one and easy to feel and understand. Cu's shattered soul struggles with living in an imaginary world where death has not taken his love away. He must learn, with Brighid's help, to come back to the real world and accept the fate he has been dealt.

This novel is written almost as if in different acts of a play. The first segment is about Brighid's journey to the mountain to bring Cu and the New Fomorians home and all she encounters along the way. Then comes the story of how she journeys to the other realm to bring Cu's soul back and heal him. The final segment deals with Brighid's growth and acceptance of the fate dealt her, when she must choose which life she will live. All three individual stories are blended together masterfully, to build the overlying story which encompasses everything.

Of course, romance is never missing from a book by P C Cast, and it shows itself in Brighid's Quest. As Cu's soul heals, his relationship with Brighid deepens from respect and deep friendship to the more powerful bond of soul mates. How these two come together in their love is inspired and bound to make readers sigh in delight at how they bridge the gap.

? Kelley A. Hartsell, March 2006. All rights reserved.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, November 28, 2005

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Swellegant "Lyricalcatt" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brighid's Quest (Paperback)

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!