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This book captivated me from the very beginning, and carried me through to the last minute. Maybe it's the way the narrators brought Puck and Sean to life, or maybe the layers of emotion in the story - another reviewer said something about this being a love story on several levels, and I'd agree. It's not just about Puck and Sean falling for each other, it's about Sean's love of Cor and Puck's love of her family and the love they both have for Thisby. I love Steifvater's Raven Cycle and was surp
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This is a very special book. It's literary YA based on obscure mythology about homicidal horses that are born out of the ocean onto an island (I heard Scottish accents in my mind as I read), where locals race them, risking their lives for a ton of money. Stiefvater weaves this sort of web of life on Thisby - I was utterly spellbound. Our heroine, Puck, is an orphan whose parents were killed by the water horses and now must ride to keep a roof over her head (and her brother's). She's the first fe
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Instead of Werewolves, Stiefvater takes the Celtic myth of water horses and creates for them a hardscrabble island that has not much else going for it. The carnivorous horses seem strangely out of place in the story even though they are at the center of it. There is plenty of danger and romance and I enjoyed the double narration of the audiobook.
You know when you are at the end of a book and tears are streaming down your cheeks and blurring your vision but you don't even want to spare the moment it would take to wipe them from your eyes because you just have to finish RIGHT NOW? Yeah, "The Scorpio Races" was like that.
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4.5 - the right amount of magical
I love Maggie Stiefvater's prose. It's beautiful, lyrical, heart-breaking, and honest. I love the characters and the twists in the plot. The horses. Lord, the horses. This story will stay with me for a long time, I'm sure.
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An interesting take on Kelpie lore, with a strong sense of place. Very atmospheric.
Aug 25, 2011
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