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The Scorpio Races
by Maggie Stiefvater
I just, enjoyed this. My least fave book of Maggie's. It just didn't have that magic of instantly connecting to the characters and really caring about them. Sean and Puck were okay characters and of course I wanted them to get what they wanted but when the novel was over I was just like, okay goodbye, have a good life but I don't really give much of a shit now. There is someone I really liked and that is Corr, the killer horse, I just adored him, his loyalty to Sean and not the water is just so damm beautiful.
Also the setting. America and other countries were mentioned but when they talked about what country their island was attached to they just called it the mainland and I was like, I just want to know where they are in the world, do not call it the mainland. And in what period was it set? There were modern cars but no technology and women were either married or shared a business with their family and they talked about the women's suffrage movement so I'm guessing it was 1900-1950 time. I just wanted to know and it annoyed me that we never found out.
Also why it is only their island that has this magical creatures and old rituals, it just didn't ring true.
Why did men suddenly decide to start to ride these dangerous creatures? I mean really, they shouldn't be riding them not because of the danger but because the horses belong to the sea and they were taking them out of their habitat and slapping metal on them which hurt them and these horses should have been protected, there was just something so wrong with how they were treated. It's cruelty to animals is what that was and I love horses so to see some of the things they did to them just so they could ride them it was so bad. The only consolation is that they got eaten by the horses, payback bitches.
So relationships. I really liked Sean and George Holly's scenes together, also Pucks and Finn's. But the romance, I just didn't feel it, I think they were better off friends. The kiss was so lackluster and just came out of nowhere, could have done without it. Corr and Sean shared the best one hands down, the fact he gave up the sea, his calling for Sean and that Sean never used the metal on Corr to hurt him like the others just shows how much trust and care they have for one another.
So I enjoyed it but that's the extent to how I felt.
Also the setting. America and other countries were mentioned but when they talked about what country their island was attached to they just called it the mainland and I was like, I just want to know where they are in the world, do not call it the mainland. And in what period was it set? There were modern cars but no technology and women were either married or shared a business with their family and they talked about the women's suffrage movement so I'm guessing it was 1900-1950 time. I just wanted to know and it annoyed me that we never found out.
Also why it is only their island that has this magical creatures and old rituals, it just didn't ring true.
Why did men suddenly decide to start to ride these dangerous creatures? I mean really, they shouldn't be riding them not because of the danger but because the horses belong to the sea and they were taking them out of their habitat and slapping metal on them which hurt them and these horses should have been protected, there was just something so wrong with how they were treated. It's cruelty to animals is what that was and I love horses so to see some of the things they did to them just so they could ride them it was so bad. The only consolation is that they got eaten by the horses, payback bitches.
So relationships. I really liked Sean and George Holly's scenes together, also Pucks and Finn's. But the romance, I just didn't feel it, I think they were better off friends. The kiss was so lackluster and just came out of nowhere, could have done without it. Corr and Sean shared the best one hands down, the fact he gave up the sea, his calling for Sean and that Sean never used the metal on Corr to hurt him like the others just shows how much trust and care they have for one another.
So I enjoyed it but that's the extent to how I felt.