The Scorpio Races (Stiefvater)
Apr. 25th, 2012 06:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahn(3+/5) - Heroine hair color: red. So this is an awesome book -- the writing is very good, rather better than most YA I read, and it's about evil horses! Yay! (Having been brought up reading about Valdemar Companions, I now in reaction have a total weakness for books about evil horses. See also Cherrryh's Riders duology.
The only thing is, the ending vaguely bothered me, and I am not sure I can articulate why. Not that this has ever stopped me from trying to do so!
So Sean basically throws the race for Puck. I guess this is my first problem; not the throwing of the race itself, but the part where he doesn't really seem to have thought about it very hard. I mean, if the whole villain (whose name I can't remember) thing hadn't happened, what would he have done? Thrown the whole race for her? Could they maybe not have coordinated this before and saved themselves the trouble? ...I don't know. Something about this just didn't quite gel for me.
Also, I guess the point of the ending was that the horse was more important to Sean than racing on him was, but I didn't get that emotionally.
Holly was totally cool, though. I'd so read a spinoff with him.
The only thing is, the ending vaguely bothered me, and I am not sure I can articulate why. Not that this has ever stopped me from trying to do so!
So Sean basically throws the race for Puck. I guess this is my first problem; not the throwing of the race itself, but the part where he doesn't really seem to have thought about it very hard. I mean, if the whole villain (whose name I can't remember) thing hadn't happened, what would he have done? Thrown the whole race for her? Could they maybe not have coordinated this before and saved themselves the trouble? ...I don't know. Something about this just didn't quite gel for me.
Also, I guess the point of the ending was that the horse was more important to Sean than racing on him was, but I didn't get that emotionally.
Holly was totally cool, though. I'd so read a spinoff with him.
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