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The Scorpio Races
by Maggie Stiefvater
This book was hard to get through, and then the easiest thing - it took me 11 days to read the first 150 pages and 3 hours to get through the rest. It starts slow, then builds up until you can’t put it down, but man is the start slow.
However, the characters were good, and the concept was great. The world building was fantastic - you could feel Thisby, the island they live in, taking shape around you. And I mean physically feel it, which is the only reason I didn’t ditch this book. I’ve mentioned my problems with the plot and how slow it was at the beginning (or, at the very least, not fast enough to hook me.) The romance in this is slow, and inevitable, and not the main source of drama so much as two characters being drawn to each other and understanding each other. I personally loved this -I’m here for carnivorous water horses, not boy-and-girl fall in love.
Favourite characters;
-Puck/Kate, our hero, this sensible girl who doesn’t want anything to do with the races mentioned in the title, but who actually stays sensible instead of losing her head when a boy pays attention to her. She only loves her horse and her brothers, and spends most of the time annoyed at the latter. She’s tough and stubborn as hell. I love her.
- I have a soft spot for Finn, one of the aforementioned brothers, an all-around dork who only loves his siblings and his car and his cat. He’s just a good kiddo.
Favourite relationships;
- Puck, Finn, and Gabe (the last brother) for sure. These siblings who love each other but don’t at all understand each other, dealing with their own crap and how it inevitably affects each other. Gabe, leaving a place he hates, and his little siblings desperate to make him stay while dealing with the problems that life throws at three teenagers living alone. Puck and Finn bantering and being dorks.
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Favourite scene:
- Puck riding Corr near the end, because damn, that writing was beautiful.
However, the characters were good, and the concept was great. The world building was fantastic - you could feel Thisby, the island they live in, taking shape around you. And I mean physically feel it, which is the only reason I didn’t ditch this book. I’ve mentioned my problems with the plot and how slow it was at the beginning (or, at the very least, not fast enough to hook me.) The romance in this is slow, and inevitable, and not the main source of drama so much as two characters being drawn to each other and understanding each other. I personally loved this -I’m here for carnivorous water horses, not boy-and-girl fall in love.
Favourite characters;
-Puck/Kate, our hero, this sensible girl who doesn’t want anything to do with the races mentioned in the title, but who actually stays sensible instead of losing her head when a boy pays attention to her. She only loves her horse and her brothers, and spends most of the time annoyed at the latter. She’s tough and stubborn as hell. I love her.
- I have a soft spot for Finn, one of the aforementioned brothers, an all-around dork who only loves his siblings and his car and his cat. He’s just a good kiddo.
Favourite relationships;
- Puck, Finn, and Gabe (the last brother) for sure. These siblings who love each other but don’t at all understand each other, dealing with their own crap and how it inevitably affects each other. Gabe, leaving a place he hates, and his little siblings desperate to make him stay while dealing with the problems that life throws at three teenagers living alone. Puck and Finn bantering and being dorks.
SPOILERCORNERSPOILERCORNERSPOILERCORNERSPOILERCORNERSPOILE
Favourite scene:
- Puck riding Corr near the end, because damn, that writing was beautiful.