The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Release date: October 18, 2011
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 409
Summary: It is always at the start of every November: The Scorpio Races. People ride on waterhorses and hope to hold on long enough to cross the finish line. Some riders live. And some die.
19 year old Sean Kendrick competes in the Scorpio Races and has one. Though, he doesn't compete for the money. He is riding for someone, getting the money for them. Because he has a gift. He can talk to the water horses and train them properly. He loves them.
Puck Connolly is different. She was never supposed to ride in The Scorpio Races. Only she is. She has to for her family and frankly, fait hasn't done anything else for her. So she is entered, The first girl to ever be entered. And now is getting prepared for whatever it throughs at her. She is ready and going to win.
Thoughts: I have really high expectations for Maggie. After reading her Wolves of Mercery Falls Trilogy, that is TO DIE FOR! It was amazing. So you see I have very high expectations for her. Anyway, The Scorpio Races did not exceed my expectations. It had a fairly slow start and by start I mean it didn't pick up until like the last 50-75 pages. So as you can see I wasn't that impressed.Now the premise of the book was really good, it almost reminded me of The Hunger Games but a bit less intense. I mean like a competion and raceing to not die. So I was excited to read it because I was like whoa!, this sounds really good! Only it wasn't that good. I found that she dragged on the training to much and just talking about some pointless and really boring topics.
There were the parts that were good and picked up for a page or two but other then that the story was dragged on. I thought that the races were going to start like quarter way to half way through but instead it started like 50 pages to the end and that was the only like good part.
The only part of this that was good all the way through was obviously Maggie's writing. If you have read any of her books then you know that see is like one of the best writers out there. It is the one thing that she always delivers. All the way through the book and in all of her books. Her style of writing is phenomenal and I just adore reading it. I will never, ever be able to get over it.
In conclusion I do say that The Scorpio Races was disapointing and will probably be my least favourite book by Maggie Stiefvater. I just wish she would have made it a bit more thrilling throughout the book and if she had I think it may have been a much, much better book. I would give The Scorpio Races a 2.5/5 stars because it was an amazingly writin book and had a good plot line but the story itself and how she dragged on the story was a real downer for me.
Rating: 2.5/5 Stars
Recommended to people who like: Suspense, Drama, Adventure and The Hunger Games
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