This book is everything that people have said it is and more. There is not a single part of this book thats weak; everything is crushingly beautiful and rarely matched.

Maggie Stiefvater was never a shabby writer, but in THE SCORPIO RACES, her way with language combined with a lingering emotional resonance that I hadnt quite fully experienced in her books until now. THE SCORPIO RACES is deliberately set neither here nor there, now nor then, with the result that it carries a timeless and universal feel. Broken into multiple small parts, it would be hard to pinpoint exactly what makes this book work so wellso I wont. All I know is that somehow, Pucks near-desperate spirit; Seans otherworldly skills with the capaill uisce and his unenviable conflicts; and the magical, addicting, dangerous, and mysterious island of Thisby all combine together for a book thats to be loved and indulged in like a bar of the highest quality chocolate: slowly, lovingly, and satisfactorily with each bite.

THE SCORPIO RACES proves to us all that great books dont have to come in series or trilogies. Oh, how I cant wait to read this one again.

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THE SCORPIO RACES was the May 2013 pick in my online book club, The Reading Cove. I was intrigued by the end of the prologue, but after the first 100 pages, I had to give up and just skim through to the end for our discussion. It just wasn't my cuppa story.

The premise is that the two main characters, Puck and Sean, lose parents and are forced to make their own way....by racing on flesh-eating mad horses that emerge from the sea on a rampage...

I was bored with the meandering build up toward the actual race, which ended up being pretty anticlimactic. Maybe this book goes over better with the target audience. But I give it a C-.

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