Maggie Stiefvater does some incredible animated trailers for her books, and The Scorpio Races gets the same super-special treatment. Who knew carnivorous horses were just what we needed? Video In this glowing review, the NY Times not only gives us a pronunciation key to capaill uisce (thanks, guys), but also raves about how it pumps new blood into a genre overflowing with vamps, weres, and angels. Hm, sounds like the same addiction to danger that drives Sean to compete in the races every year. The Guardian warns us how addicting The Scorpio Races can be in this review. In this interview, she talks about that and, more importantly, the fun trips she took to do research for the beautifully dangerous cliffs of Thisby. Maggie Stiefvater does tons of interaction with her fans. Okay, so it's not quite the island of Thisby, but the official web-site of The Scorpio Races has tons of cool extras, including icons, wallpapers, and striking foreign book covers. With no sequel planned, this just might be your only chance to hang out with man-eating horses for a while.
The Scorpio Races is a one-off book though, so remember to pace yourself while reading. Stiefvater knows all about supernatural weirdness, having crafted the uber-popular Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, including Shiver. It's a unique world drawn from Celtic lore, and the bizarre, dangerous water horses are just as memorable as the humans who try to train them. The Scorpio Races is about two nineteen-year-olds who find themselves training for the race of their lives: the titular Scorpio Races, in which vicious water horses called the capaill uisce run at break neck speeds along the beach while their riders try not to break their own necks. All that's missing are people wearing wacky hats and placing bets. Printz Honor for best book written for teens. It's the Kentucky Derby-meets- Hunger Gamesof young adult novels, and it received tons of glowing reviews and a Michael L. Maggie Stiefvater saw this heinous literary oversight and filled it full of scary carnivorous horses with her 2011 novel The Scorpio Races. Hey, Cujo did it for dogs-horse lit has to compete. But do you know what those works are missing? Horses that eat people.
There's a long line of books about people and their equine companions- Black Beauty, Misty of Chincoteague, War Horse-and there are so many movies about horses too- Secretariat, Seabiscuit, that War Horse again-that we might as well put dogs out to pasture.Īll of these books and movies put the beauty, power, and intelligence of horses on display and make us think they're just as human as we are. Dogs might be called man's best friend, but they're in close competition with horses.
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