It's a unique world drawn from Celtic lore, and the bizarre, dangerous water horses are just as memorable as the humans who try to train them.
The Scorpio Races is about two nineteen-year-olds who find themselves training for the race of their lives: the titular Scorpio Races, in which vicious water horses called the capaill uisce run at break neck speeds along the beach while their riders try not to break their own necks. All that's missing are people wearing wacky hats and placing bets. Printz Honor for best book written for teens. It's the Kentucky Derby-meets- Hunger Gamesof young adult novels, and it received tons of glowing reviews and a Michael L. Maggie Stiefvater saw this heinous literary oversight and filled it full of scary carnivorous horses with her 2011 novel The Scorpio Races. Hey, Cujo did it for dogs-horse lit has to compete. But do you know what those works are missing? Horses that eat people. There's a long line of books about people and their equine companions- Black Beauty, Misty of Chincoteague, War Horse-and there are so many movies about horses too- Secretariat, Seabiscuit, that War Horse again-that we might as well put dogs out to pasture.Īll of these books and movies put the beauty, power, and intelligence of horses on display and make us think they're just as human as we are. "Tense, atmospheric, and utterly original.Dogs might be called man's best friend, but they're in close competition with horses.
"With this beautifully executed drama, Stiefvater has established herself as one of the finest YA novelists writing today." "Tactile world-building, an island full of compelling characters, and the budding romance between Sean and Puck all make for an unforgettable book that's quite unlike anything else out there." If "The Scorpio Races" sounds like nothing you've ever read, that's because it is." "Stiefvater not only steps out of the young adult fantasy box with "The Scorpio Races" but crushes it with pounding hooves.
The author takes great liberties with the Celtic myth, but the result is marvelous." É "Upon the sea-battered and wind-swept isle of Thisby, fall brings the famed and feared capaill uisce, or water horses, and with them, death. É "A book with cross-appeal to lovers of fantasy, horse stories, romance, and action-adventure, this seems to have a shot at being a YA blockbuster." É "A study of courage and loyalty tested.utterly compelling." É "Masterful.like nothing else out there now." É "Stiefvater's novel, inspired by Manx, Irish, and Scottish legends of beautiful but deadly fairy horses that emerge from the sea each autumn, begins rivetingly and gets better and better.
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