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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shiver and Linger comes a brand new, heartstopping novel.

Some race to win. Others race to survive.

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 choice. So she enters the competition - the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.
As she did in her bestselling Shiver trilogy, author Maggie Stiefvater takes us to the breaking point, where both love and life meet their greatest obstacles, and only the strong of heart can survive. The Scorpio Races is an unforgettable reading experience.

A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book

The Scorpio Races

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The Scorpio Races are an annual event frequently marked by death. Every November, riders try to bury their fears as they race aboard water horses along the cliff-side. Nineteen-year-old Sean Kendrick is the returning champion, but from his sullen behavior, you would hardly know it. Young Puck Connolly, the first female entry ever, is also there to compete, but she had no intention of entering this dangerous game and now she has no idea whether she will even survive. A seductive action story.

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In her closing notes, Stiefvater (the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy) calls this a book “about killer horses”—terrifying faerie creatures that eat meat and seek to drown humans—and, in virtually the same breath, says that it “isn’t really about water horses.” She’s right on both counts. On the island of Thisby, the Scorpio Races are held every November, when the driven or the crazy ride the beaches on the backs of these mounts. Sean Kendrick does it for love, winning year after year on the stallion Corr; Puck Connolly, pitting her ordinary horse against the killers, does it out of desperation, to win money to keep her home and to earn respect from her older brother, who threatens to desert the family. Stiefvater’s narration is as much about atmospherics as it is about event, and the water horses are the environment in which Sean and Puck move, allies and rivals to the end. It’s not a feel-good story—dread, loss, and hard choices are the islanders’ lot. As a study of courage and loyalty tested, however, it is an utterly compelling read. Ages 13–up. (Oct.)¦

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VOYA

Sean Kendrick and Kate "Puck" Connolly have both been orphaned by the capaill uisce—the water horses that are born from the sea every fall in the small island town of Thisby. Their stories are not uncommon on the island as many families have lost loved ones to the hungry and feral creatures and to the Scorpio Races the horses are used for every November. Sean is a four time champion of the races and has more than just his love for the horses riding on this year's race; his freedom is on the line. Puck is the first girl to sign up for the race, and she must win to save her family. Only one can win the race and many are lucky to even survive, but Puck and Sean learn to lean on each other to survive the deadliest season on the island they both love. Fans of Stiefvater's Shiver (Scholastic, 2009/VOYA December 2009) will fall under her descriptive trance once again in The Scorpio Races as she draws the reader into Sean and Puck's captivating world of capaill uisce. The elegant imagery of the town and subtle romance between the two main characters make up for the slight holes in the story, such as Puck's weak motivation for involving herself in the race. Readers may need a little push to get past what initially sounds like a juvenile concept, but will quickly become entranced in this beautifully told coming-of-age story. Reviewer: Blake Norby

Children's Literature

Puck is the first girl to run in the annual horse race, but this is no ordinary race and these are no ordinary horses. Set on an island, the story is based loosely on an Irish myth about wild horses that live in the sea. This riveting and suspenseful story expertly weaves myth with reality. The story is told alternately from two points-of-view, those of Puck and Sean Kendrick. Once a year the islanders race the water horses, or capaill uisce as they are called. The capaill uisce run unlike any land horse and are very strong. They are hard to tame and will kill man or animal if given the chance. Puck and her two brothers lost their parents when they were pulled into the ocean by a water horse and never seen again. There is big prize money for the winner of the race. Puck must win—their home is on the line. The islanders are superstitious and don't want a girl to ride. No one will support Puck except Sean Kendrick. Sean works for Benjamin Malvern's ranch. He breaks in land horses and knows how to communicate with the capaill uisce. He trains and races a red water horse, Corr. They won the last four races together. Puck decides to ride her land horse named Dove. Despite the danger as water horses prey on land horses, Puck, on Dove, and Sean, on Corr, train together. Just before the race, Sean and Mr. Malvern make a deal. If Sean wins he will be able to buy Corr. If he loses he must never ask for Corr again. Corr is as close to Sean as family. Sean must win to get Corr but Puck must win to save her home. Suspenseful, compelling, wonderful visual descriptions with strong characters make this book hard to put down. Reviewer: Loretta Caravette

Kirkus Reviews

The bestselling author ofShiver(2009) andLinger(2010) turns the legend of the water horse into a taut, chilling, romantic adventure.

Each October on the island of Thisby, thecapaill uisce, or water horses, emerge from the sea. Predatory meat-eaters, they endanger the islanders—but they are also fast, far faster than land horses, and if captured and very carefully handled, with iron and magic, they can be trained. Every first of November, the water horses are raced on the beach of Thisby; winning the Scorpio Races brings fame and fortune, but losing often bringsdeath. Nineteen-year-old Sean Kendrick runs for the right to buy the water-horse stallion Corr; 16-year-old Katherine, called Puck, pits her land mare against the water horses in an attempt to save her home. Gradually, the two of them, both orphaned bycapaill uisceand fighting for the most important object in their lives, become confederates. First-person narration alternates seamlessly between Sean and Puck. The large cast of supporting characters springs to life, particularly Puck's brothers, Finn and Gabe, and Thisby feels like a place you can see and smell. The water horses are breathtakingly well-imagined, glorious anduntamably violent. The final race, with Sean and Puck each protecting each other but both determined to win, comes to a pitch-perfect conclusion.

Masterful. Like nothing else out there now.(Fantasy. 13-18)

Jennifer Hubert Swan

If The Scorpio Races sounds like nothing you've ever read, that's because it is. The capaill uisce are exhilarating, frightening creations, far more fascinating in their quivering, carnivorous rage than lovelorn vampires or angsty fallen angels, the current paranormal darlings of Y.A. literature. Stiefvater has successfully plumbed lesser-known myths and written a complex literary thriller that pumps new blood into a genre suffering from post-Twilight burnout.
—The New York Times Book Review

School Library Journal

Gr 8 Up—On the sea-battered and wind-swept isle of Thisby, fall brings the famed and feared capaill uisce, or water horses, and with them, death. These animals are bigger and faster than their terrestrial cousins, and they are carnivorous and predatory. Many islanders have lost family members to the beasts, including narrators Sean Kendrick and Kate Connely. For them, and others, the annual Scorpio Races are both a celebration and a grotesque spectacle. Island men test their mettle and risk their lives racing the water horses, capping a weeks-long festival. Sean, the island's foremost horse expert, races Corr to win the money to finally buy the horse from his boss, Benjamin Malvern. Kate, aka Puck, races her land horse to save her family home from foreclosure by the same man. Both cannot win, and it is doubtful that both will survive. While there is plenty of action, conflict, excitement, and a heart-stopping climax, it is the slowly developing relationship between Kate and Sean that makes the book remarkable. Though different, they are both products of the island and have an intense love for Thisby that is not shared by all of the residents. Stiefvater makes readers care deeply for them, their desolate island, and even the monstrous water horses. The author takes great liberties with the Celtic myth, but the result is marvelous.—Anthony C. Doyle, Livingston High School, CA

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780545224901
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date: 10/18/2011
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 949
Age range: 13 - 17 Years
Lexile: 840L (what's this?)
Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater's life decisions have revolved around her inability to be gainfully employed. Talking to yourself, staring into space, and coming to work in your pajamas are frowned upon when you're a waitress, calligraphy instructor, or technical writer (all of which she's tried), but are highly prized traits in novelists and artists (she's made her living as one or the other since she was twenty-two). Maggie now lives a surprisingly eccentric life in the middle of nowhere, Virginia, with her charmingly straight-laced husband, two kids, and neurotic dog.

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PROLOGUE:
NINE YEARS EARLIER
SEAN
It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.
Even under the brightest sun, the frigid autumn sea is all
the colors of the night: dark blue and black and brown. I watch
the ever–changing patterns in the sand as it’s pummeled by
countless hooves.
They run the horses on the beach, a pale road between the
black water and the chalk cliffs. It is never safe, but it’s never so
dangerous as today, race day.
This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks
feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs
sting from the friction of the saddle. My arms ache from holding
up two thousand pounds of horse. I have forgotten what it
is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and
what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across
yards of sand.
I am so, so alive.
As I head down to the cliffs with my father, one of the race
officials stops me. He says, “Sean Kendrick, you are ten years
old. You haven’t discovered it yet, but there are more interesting
ways to die than on this beach.”

My father doubles back and takes the official’s upper arm
as if the man were a restless horse. They share a brief exchange
about age restrictions during the race. My father wins.
“If your son is killed,” the official says, “the only fault is
yours.”
My father doesn’t even answer him, just leads his uisce stallion
away.
On the way down to the water, we’re jostled and pushed by
men and by horses. I slide beneath one horse as it rears up, its
rider jerked at the end of the lead. Unharmed, I find myself facing
the sea, surrounded on all sides by the capaill uisce — the
water horses. They are every color of the pebbles on the beach:
black, red, golden, white, ivory, gray, blue. Men hang the bridles
with red tassels and daisies to lessen the danger of the dark
November sea, but I wouldn’t trust a handful of petals to save
my life. Last year a water horse trailing flowers and bells tore a
man’s arm half from his body.
These are not ordinary horses. Drape them with charms,
hide them from the sea, but today, on the beach: Do not turn
your back.
Some of the horses have lathered. Froth drips down their
lips and chests, looking like sea foam, hiding the teeth that will
tear into men later.
They are beautiful and deadly, loving us and hating us.
My father sends me off to get his saddlecloth and armband
from another set of officials. The color of the cloth is meant to
allow the spectators far up on the cliffs to identify my father, but
in his case, they won’t need it, not with his stallion’s brilliant
red coat.
“Ah, Kendrick,” the officials say, which is both my father’s
name and mine. “It’ll be a red cloth for him.”

As I return to my father, I am hailed by a rider: “Ho, Sean
Kendrick.” He’s diminutive and wiry, his face carved out of
rock. “Fine day for it.” I am honored to be greeted like an
adult. Like I belong here. We nod to each other before he turns
back to his horse to finish saddling up. His small racing saddle
is hand-tooled, and as he lifts the flap to give the girth a
final tug, I see words burned into the leather: Our dead drink
the sea.
My heart is jerking in my chest as I hand the cloth to my
father. He seems unsettled as well, and I wish I was riding,
not him.
Myself I am sure of.
The red uisce stallion is restless and snorting, ears pricked,
eager. He is very hot today. He will be fast. Fast and difficult
to hold.
My father gives me the reins so that he can saddle the water
horse with the red cloth. I lick my teeth — they taste like
salt — and watch my father tie the matching armband around
his upper arm. Every year I have watched him, and every year
he has tied it with a steady hand, but not this year. His fingers
are clumsy, and I know he is afraid of the red stallion.
I have ridden him, this capall. On his back, the wind beating
me, the ground jarring me, the sea spraying our legs, we
never tire.
I lean close to the stallion’s ear and trace a counterclockwise
circle above his eye as I whisper into his soft ear.
“Sean!” my father snaps, and the capall’s head jerks up
quickly enough that his skull nearly strikes mine. “What are
you doing with your face next to his today? Does he not look
hungry to you? Do you think you’d look fine with half
a face?”

But I just look at the stallion’s square pupil, and he looks
back, his head turned slightly away from me. I hope he’s remembering
what I told him: Do not eat my father.
My father makes a noise in his throat and says, “I think
you should go up now. Come here and —“ He slaps my shoulder
before mounting up.
He is small and dark on the back of the red stallion. Already,
his hands work ceaselessly on the reins to keep the horse in
place. The motion twists the bit in the horse’s mouth; I watch
his head rocking to and fro. It’s not how I would have done it,
but I’m not up there.
I want to tell my father to mind how the stallion spooks to
the right, how I think he sees better out of his left eye, but
instead I say, “See you when it’s over.” We nod to each other like
strangers, the good–bye unpracticed and uncomfortable.
I am watching the race from the cliffs when a gray uisce
horse seizes my father by his arm and then his chest.
For one moment, the waves do not attack the shore and the
gulls above us do not flap and the gritty air in my lungs doesn’t
escape.
Then the gray water horse tears my father from his uneasy
place on the back of the red stallion.
The gray cannot keep its ragged grip on my father’s chest,
and so my father falls to the sand, already ruined before the
hooves get to him. He was in second place, so it takes a long
minute before the rest of the horses have passed over the top of
his body and I can see it again. By then, he is a long,
black–and–scarlet
smear half-submerged in the frothy tide. The red stallion
circles, halfway to a hungry creature of the sea, but he does as I
asked: He does not eat the thing that was my father. Instead,
the stallion climbs back into the water. Nothing is as red as the
sea that day.
I don’t think often on my father’s body strung out through
the reddening surf. Instead, I remember him as he was before the
race: afraid.
I won’t make the same mistake.

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BookHounds

Posted July 7, 2011

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***slight spoilers***

Kate (Puck) Connelly's parents are dead, leaving her and her two brother orphans. The cause of their death is a Sea Horse, Capaill Uisge, a horse that is born of the sea, but unlike anything you have ever heard of before. These horses are ruled by the magic of the sea and surface to hunt what ever is in their path with true viciousness. Kate is an excellent rider and has a mare named Dove. Sean Kendrick works in the stable of a horse racing magnet on Thisby, a vaguely Irish island which has modern features, but also old fashioned. He is a paranormal horse whisperer and can communicate and coerce the water horses with his incantations and touch. He has won the last four of six Scorpio Races on Corr, a horse he has an incredible bond with and unlike any other rider of the capaill.

Puck and Dove enter the Scorpio Race in order to save her family home from the landowner and racing magnet, who is also Sean's boss. Although Dove is not a water horse, Puck has trained her to race with them and tolerate their ferociousness. The story builds as Puck and Sean train for the climatic race which takes place every November. At the beginning of this story, I wasn't expecting any romance, but one does develop between Puck and Sean quite naturally. The weird ambiance of the island even adds to the pair to make them more perfectly matched in their single mindedness when it comes to horses and life in general. I am giving away the bit of detail about their romance, but nothing about the race itself which has a thrilling conclusion.

I truly enjoyed this fantasy. It was an effortless read and wasn't easy to predict where the story would go. Kate's nickname of Puck is very apt since she has a "puckishness" about her. Sean is very likable even though he cuts himself off from most people except the horses. I love the strength of each character and how they work together while not losing site of their goals. There are some violent images throughout the story with a few kisses here and there, but overall safe for those over 13.

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terilhack

Posted November 3, 2011

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Blood Thirsty Horses & Boys

Scorpio Races is the newest release from acclaimed author Maggie Steifvater, author of the Wolves of Mercy Falls series.

The rich detail and passionate characters that Maggie brought to her wolves crosses into this latest release that asks is the question " how far would you go for what you love?"

In Thisby the tides are turning and with the coming of November brings in the entry of the capaill uisce, a fearsome type of man eating water horse.
The Scorpio Race itself has been a time honored tradition for the men of the island, and with the coming of the capaill uisce begins the beginning of the bloodletting. The savage water horses eat their way through island and rider as they yearn for the sea and the men and boys yearn for the title of winner for the races of the year. With dangerous training and jockeying for places the riders have someone new in their midst, a girl named Puck with a home to save.

Scorpio Races brings in amazing characters who are looking for a future with their small island while all feeling the call or the chains of the sea.
SR is breathtaking to read, I ate up the pages and could not put it down. It's story enthralled me as a reader. It was just incredible.

Growing up is hard enough but our characters have this huge responsibility to save themselves, their home, their family, their way of life. The world building was spectacular, you could almost feel the pull of the sea in it's pages.

Maggie S has created a masterpiece of possibilities in the Scorpio Races.

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Anonymous

Posted November 27, 2011

Highly recommended to fantasy lovers, horse fans, and teens tired of vampires.

Maggie Stiefvater makes horses scary. This is The Black Stallion with fangs, a book that's ready to sink its teeth into your shoulder and drag you kicking and screaming through the pages. Stiefvater's use of imagery leaves readers with a frantic drumbeat in their head and the insistent feeling that one should be checking for sand in their shoes. This book is dubbed a love story and rightly so, but the love readers will find here won't be in stolen kisses and awkward gropes on the beach. Instead, Stiefvater's words stir up a mixture of feelings that will have readers looking at the ocean in a whole new way. This is not a book for cynical adults. For people who look around and hate the world, hate their job, and have too many obligations that a 404 page journey through Thisby is about as impossible as jumping on a plane and trying to find Thisby, put this book back. This is a book for teens and one of the best I've read in 2011.

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Anonymous

Posted October 24, 2011

Highly recommend!!

Loved, loved it....don't have to be a horse person to enjoy this gem of a book.

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Anonymous

Posted October 21, 2011

Awesome book!

I read this book while I've been traveling and the only thing I wish is that it'd be longer! I miss it so much already! I'm a big fan of Maggie Stiefvater and she never seems to disappoint my high expectation from a book.

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Anonymous

Posted October 31, 2011

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I will never forget this book

I liked Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver series but I love this book more. It starts out a little slow and confusing but it had me hooked till the very end. This book was beautifully written and when I finished it I couldn't stop thinking about it and it's haunting tone. There were parts that were very touching and haunting and if you like romance, action, or suspense you will like this book. The characters were so well developed I feel like they are real people and kind of wish they were! I have recommended this book to all of my friends because I simply need to talk about it more!

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9175098

Posted October 2, 2011

Really good book

The begining starts out slow but it ends up being a really good book.

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BeadQueen

Posted December 25, 2011

You know a book is good when....

It stays with you long after you've read it. This is one of those books.

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ReadNC

Posted December 23, 2011

Lacks the Action I expected

When reading the reviews I felt like there would have been a lot more action involved in this novel. There is some;however, not to the extent that I was lead to believe.this is much more of an emotional story with some action sprinkled in throughout.

I wish more had been done with the horses. I found myself wanting to skip over the emotional stuff and go straight to any part with the horses. The main character does not come off as brave to me as I believe the author intends. She comes across to me as naive and stupid.

This book could have been five stars, but was lacking instead.

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thereaderbee

Posted January 31, 2012

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Enjoyable Read!

I was super curious about The Scorpio Races the minute I heard about the book. I didn’t really know what to expect for a book that dealt with horses, but I love Maggie Stiefvater, and I couldn’t wait to get started on this book. It was definitely worth the read!

Every year, November marks the beginning of the Scorpio Races. These are no normal races, however. These races consist of water horses that long for their home in the sea, and eat not only other animals, but humans as well. Riding one these beasts to the very end of the race will win you big, but you could also die in the process. Kate Connolly who, is the first girl that has ever entered the race, needs to win to save her family home. Can she do it, is the question.

Kate (Puck) was just a really great main character. I love that she was just a girl, plain and simple. Not wanting to give up the only home she’s know, she did what she had to do for herself, her brother and their home. I love that her best friend is her horse, Dove. They have such a special bond together; it was always nice reading about their situations together. I also really enjoyed Puck’s younger brother, Finn. You could really see how much he cared for his sister, and I loved their brother/sister relationship.

Sean Kendrick, who should be Kate’s biggest rival, turns out to be a great character as well. I was a little unsure of him at first, he was a bit standoffish and distant, but he definitely won me over by the middle of the book. I love the way he was with the horses, and the way he was such a gentleman, especially when it came to Puck.

The storyline for this book was absolutely unique and fascinating. Just imagining the horses that live in the water, and how evil they were. It definitely kept the mystery in the book. I enjoyed the pacing of the book as well. Once I had time to actually sit down and read uninterrupted, I flew through the pages. The ending of the book is very satisfying, I thought it ended perfectly. The romance in the book is at a minimum, but I think that makes it stand out even more.

Overall, I enjoyed this book a lot more than I expected to! With such a great storyline, and awesome characters, who wouldn’t love it? It’s definitely a must read.

Happy Reading!

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Anonymous

Posted November 11, 2011

Fantastic

Beautiful and exciting, plus a little romance. Very good book

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Anonymous

Posted February 21, 2012

Briliant

Great
I would sugest that people from the age of 10+ to read this book because it has some language... but not too bad and it may be a little violent... but if you like the hunger games this is definitly your kind of book :) :p
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Anonymous

Posted February 17, 2012

Utterly Mesmorizing

I just finished this book and I can honestly tell you I am mad at myself for reading it so fast. I miss the characters already. The author does such an amazing job when shes creating Puck and Sean. And yes it is condered a romance but not the overbearing type - not the "I cant ever live without you" romance but she delivers a book based on love. Not just th love between a boy and a girl but between the riders and their horses. So dont expect immediate results this kind of romance is a slow but burning - I could feel what the characters were feeling. Also this is the kind of book that you cannot predict and Stiefvater will keep you on your toes.
My only provlems wih this book is 1) not everything is clearly defined. You have to work through some clues to understand certian things in the book. 2) the ending. Omg couldnt you leave me some closure, Maggie? I want morrre. And 3) there should be more than one book... maybe not. Either way I just wish it didnt have to end. ;)
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Anonymous

Posted February 16, 2012

Great!!!!!

I heard about this book when looking for something similar to The Hunger Games, a truly amazing trilogy! After reading a bit about it, I bought it, good thing! While it's not really similar to the Hunger Games, it is a great book and certainly surprising. I definitely recommend this book!
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Anonymous

Posted February 13, 2012

Makes you stop

This story made you ache for the sea, the harshness of life and love.
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Anonymous

Posted February 11, 2012

Dont buy

I love reading and i LOVE Maggie Stiefvaters Shiver Series. So I was really excited to see that she was starting a new series. I got the book from the libary and i could not get through the first 100 pages. It was horrible. I recomend that if like me you like her other novels, and u are curious about what this book is like than just borrow it from the libary but i do not suggest buying this book
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highland_lass

Posted February 7, 2012

READ IT!!!!

Loved this book! Well written and very exciting! This is a book I will read over and over!
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Solstice-Ballad

Posted February 6, 2012

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Absolutely Wonderful!

I laughed, I cried, I stopped reading I was so tensed and had to get up and walk around. I stopped eating breakfast while reading I was so excited. A beautiful beautiful story. Absolutely loved every moment of it! Maggie Stiefvater has woven some deeply enchanting magic with her story. Great characters, great story. Loved it!
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Anonymous

Posted February 6, 2012

Different and entertaining

A love story entwined into a dangerous race of mythical horses. If you read wolves of mercy falls, and liked it, then you should read this as well.
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Posted February 4, 2012

Surprisingly good!

I read maggie steifer's mercy falls series and although i loved the first book, it really should have stopped there, the second book was a miss for me, and i didn't even bother with the third, i was hesitant to buy this, but after reading the sample, i couldn't NOT buy it. It's an intruiging storyline withequally interesting characters. The book didn't center on the two character's love and as i am a romance lover, it gave me another reason to be wary of the book, but the freshness of it distracted me, and i hardly cared.it was definitely worth the money!
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