![]() ![]() Sean works for the callous owner of Thisby’s largest horse yard he has ridden Malvern stables’ champion stallion Corr to victory in the last four races. Sean Kendrick, another orphan and locally lauded for his ability to calm the capaill uisce shares Puck’s fierce determination. Now her older brother Gabe is threatening to leave the island, and the only way Puck can keep her impoverished family intact is to enter the Scorpio Races and win the pot. Kate Connolly, or Puck, as she is called, has already lost both her parents to the capaill uisce. The two likable and well-realized main characters have been born and raised in this rough and isolated but tightknit island society. ![]() Adapted from Celtic legend, the meat-eating mounts of this inventive, tightly woven tale have the ability to lull their human riders into a stupor whereby the fairy horses can then carry them back to the ocean to be devoured. Stiefvater, most recognized for her “Shiver” werewolf romances, not only steps out of the young adult fantasy box with “The Scorpio Races” but crushes it with pounding hooves. Here, young men are drawn to the barren beaches of the Scorpio Sea each November to compete in a brutal race astride capaill uisce (CAP-ul ISH-kuh), commonly known as water horses. Maggie Stiefvater’s violent, stand-out fantasy, “The Scorpio Races,” is set on the fictional island of Thisby, in either a near past or a dystopian future where there are cars and radios but no mention of television or the Internet. ![]()
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