A review by _ottavia_
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

5.0

Reading a book by Maggie Stiefvater is, in my experience, something quite unique. What I've come to expect from a regular YA, a fast-paced, enjoyable though not necessary perfectly written book it's always not what I find in her books. She is somehow able to start with a premise that in other hands would end up to be something completely regular for the genre and add to it a sweetness that is entirely hers. That sweetness is transmitted through amazing, peculiar characters, whose interaction feel authentic and real. Through a place, whether is a house in Henrietta or, in this case, the island of Thisby, which is very much e character of her own, that gives to the book a magical and archaic atmosphere. And through the rhythm, often slow, definitely not full of events and revelations, a rhythm that feels even more real, because filled with the mundane things of which our lives are filled.
I can't wait for another book by her to read.