Elphame's Choice

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.

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.

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