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.
I listened to the audiobook version over two days while cleaning and cooking and that sort of nonsense. It made the brainless housework infinitely more enjoyable. I loved the narrators (lovely accents) and didn't get hung up on the mythology like I know some readers did.
The one thing I kept getting hung up on, though, was Puck's reasoning for entering the race in the first place. Her brother says he's going to leave the island so, to buy MINIMAL EXTRA TIME, she enters a deadly horse race. Yeah, I'm not buying it. The rest of the time she had a much better head on her shoulders and I don't see her making such an illogical decision. When losing the house came into play it made much more sense but it still bothered me.
Unbelievable character decision aside, I thought this book was well written with excellent characters and a fun bit of magical realism.
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