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A review by billyjepma
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
5.0
"The Scorpio Races" is one of those books that sweeps you away into a world you never knew you longed for. This is YA at its best, where genre trappings are acknowledged, briefly embraced, and then converted into something altogether fresh and exciting. It revels in the world it creates and breathes life into every one of its characters, no matter how fleeting their time on the page might be. This is a book that took complete ownership of my mind, and yet I never felt the need to tear through it (well, until the final 100 pages). And I mean that in the best way. I wanted to take my time in the world Stiefvater created for me, and even though it takes a while for the book to "pick up," I was never anything less than enraptured with the story.
Stiefvater's writing is just stunning, too, and her voice is poetic without being distracting, blunt without feeling shallow, and so precise that there were countless lines or turns-of-phrase that stopped me in my tracks. She has this way of describing things in a way you've never heard before and yet somehow feel like you grew up hearing them. There's a deep understanding of tone and feeling in "The Scorpio Races" which makes it impossible to not get lost it. I relished every moment I spent in this story, every tensely held breath, every embarrassing gasp at the warm embers of an emerging romance, every profane word I shouted when the book threw yet another heartwrenching twist at me.
I love this book.
Stiefvater's writing is just stunning, too, and her voice is poetic without being distracting, blunt without feeling shallow, and so precise that there were countless lines or turns-of-phrase that stopped me in my tracks. She has this way of describing things in a way you've never heard before and yet somehow feel like you grew up hearing them. There's a deep understanding of tone and feeling in "The Scorpio Races" which makes it impossible to not get lost it. I relished every moment I spent in this story, every tensely held breath, every embarrassing gasp at the warm embers of an emerging romance, every profane word I shouted when the book threw yet another heartwrenching twist at me.
I love this book.