The Scorpio Races
Publication: 18th October 2011
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Pages: 404
Genre: Fantasy/Mythology
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.
At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.
Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.
At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.
Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.
My Thoughts.
Every November The Scorpio Races are run, men on water horses that come out of the sea, but these aren't normal horses as well as living in the ocean, they are violent creatures who if not watched carefully will tear a human to pieces.
For the last 4 years horse trainer Sean Kendrick 19 who is sort of a horse whisperer (and the only person who can seem to control the water horses has won the race on the horse Corr , who he wants to buy but the owner who Sean works for won't sell him.
Kate 'Puck' Connolly lives with her two brothers after their parents were killed by the water horses, money is tight and they have to scrape to get by, Puck learns that they're overdue on the house payments and they will be evicted if they don't come up with the money so she joins up to take part in The Scorpio Races riding her actual horse Dove , Puck is the first and only female to ever do so, and the men aren't happy about it.
Puck and Sean end up meeting and training together and a romance between them slowly develops.
The water horses are taken from mythology and I was a bit hesitant at first cause it didn't really sound all that interesting even though I've loved every book Maggie Stiefvater has written, but I loved it was original and exciting and I didn't want it to end.
I loved the characters and Maggie has a way of bringing words to life, you forget for a while that water horses aren't real.
Unfortunately this seems to be a stand-alone novel, I only wish there was more.
I give this 4/5
A big thanks to Nicole @Scholastic Australia
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