"It's the first day of November and so, today, someone will die." Actually, lots of people die in the races of the capaill uisce (water horses). Maggie Stiefvater's newest novel for teens centers around an ancient myth, and though it's bloody, I think it can be called a love story.
Puck Connolly and Sean Kendrick live on an isolated British island that becomes overrun with visiting spectators each Fall for the world renown Scorpio races. In October the water horses emerge from the sea, hungry for meat, be it human, each other, or the family pet. They are savage but beautiful and wonderously fast horses, feared by most, but loved by Sean Kendrick.
When Puck Connolly, an orphan, finds out her oldest brother is moving to the mainland, and they will lose their house, she enters the Scorpio Races on her "island pony" hoping to win the prize money. Puck will not ride a water horse, because her parents were killed by the capaill uisce. She is the first girl to enter the races and the first to not ride a water horse. Sean Kendrick has won 4 years in a row on his beloved water horse, Corr.
Puck and Sean share a love for horses and of their strange island home. But they must compete against each other for the Scorpio Race's purse. Who will win? Will they fall in love? Who will die? Read the book and find out!
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