The Scorpio Races

What I love about Scorpio Races is that it was about some magic, fairy horses, but it was not at all a fantasy style book. The book was so much about the characters - about Puck and Sean, but also about Corr and Dove. And you get to know these characters so much, that the horses don't feel mythical, they just feel real.

It was a bit difficult for me to get into for some reason - hence why it took me a year to finally read it. It's a bit slow at the beginning, learning to know and love the island and it's traditions and it's inhabitants.

My only big complaint, I think, is that the characters apart from Puck and Sean and maybe Finn felt so fuzzy and out of focus - when certain other characters died, it was hard for me to feel properly sad because I didn't know them too well. But to be honest, that may have been my fault, reading too quickly or skimming too much. Part of me wishes I had more to read of this island. There's so much of the story that's before the events of the book, and so much after. There's so much of the story that's left to the imagination.

I both love and hate books that end a bit unfinished. I admire it, and in the end, it's the best way to write an ending. When books end by telling every little detail of the after-the-story lives of the characters, it just makes me annoyed. So this is good. But at the same time, I've grown so connected to Puck and Sean and Corr and Dove that I want so badly to know what happens next.