This is a book that blurs the lines of fantasy and science fiction. It takes place in a post apopolytic world where the apocolypse was so very long ago that "our" world is just distant memories and legends. The book starts out like a fantasy not much different than Shannara or Thundar the Barbarian where magic has crept back into this world of ours with the fall of the machines. Readers meet Abasio and his talking horse, Blue, and Xulia, the soul carrier for the dying "Woman Upstairs" who has been cursed by Alicia who wants to marry the Woman's husband. When the Woman finally does die, Xulia must travel to her homeland to lay the Woman's soul to rest. This is still a very magical concept even when the story then drifts into science fiction by telling us that Alicia employed a sort of DNA seeking biochemical weapon to kill the Woman and that Xulia is a mutant that can change herself into an octopus, and her greater purpose in the world is to breed merchildren so that humans can live when the waters cover the earth. There were a lot of plots and subplots going on, and sometimes it was hard to figure out what was going on. Was it a great novel? Not really, but it was okay and I did enjoy reading it.
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