The Scorpio Races

I had high hopes for this one. Hope that maybe the prose would be less purple this time (there were still lots of pretty words, but less than in Shiver). Hope that the plot wouldn't descend into some contrived, maudlin, typical YA romance (typical maybe, maudlin no). Hope that there'd be plenty of action and thrills - this book features mythical, blood thirsty Capaill Uisce and a race involving them after all (kind of, but only momentarily). Those hopes were mostly met. The YA “romance” wasn't all swoon-y. The race at the end was fast paced, without a lot of extra wordiness. The problem - it took way too long to get there. 350+ pages of set up to get there. I thought we were never going to get through the last 2 days before the race. When we did finally get there, everything got wrapped up in 30 pages or so. Just a few sentences in the over all big picture. Those 30 or so pages were effective (the final scene with Sean and Corr was nicely done) but I wanted more. Or at least I wanted all of that emotion to start sooner.