It is told from the perspective of two different characters, using the first person voice in alternating point of views. Despite the danger, it is the people of a small island called Thisby’s quest to capture and restrain these vicious creatures long enough to race along the beach. The Scorpio Races is the thrilling tale of the capaill uisce, the savage horses that appear from the water every November. That being my only minor issue: I conclude: The Scorpio Races rocks! Then I will read the author's notes, acknowledges, whatever. It's kinda like when you know there's one more brownie in the kitchen then you go to get it and your husband ate it an hour ago. Too often, I read, read, read those final pages with a mix of excitement and sadness, too late realizing that the next page is not more conclusion but rather author's notes. I like to know I'm nearing the end and read that last page slow, like the final sip of rich hot chocolate. I HATE when author's notes directly follow the last chapter, like it's another chapter. If I have one complaint, it's a visual one.
The conclusion was unexpected (I really though it was going to go another way) but highly fulfilling, and underwritten just enough to get me there without putting too nice a bow on it. There's also jerk-wads of different degrees, sacrifices, romance, complicated family issues, affection for horses & baked goods, and a lot of blood. And there's a young woman named Puck, who hates the capall uisce for killing her parents, but chooses to race on her trusty land-horse to raise money to save her home and keep her family together. There's a young man named Sean, who is basically a seahorse-whisperer, who's won four previous times, but has gambled a lot on this year's race. And a great many stain the beach with their blood and their lives. (In the book they are called Capall Uisce - which is wicked hard to pronounce but it's like CAPple ISHka.) The winner gets a big purse. Each November, the bold young men of Thisby race along the beach on the sea horses they have captured. The basics of the story are: on this small island of Thisby there is a type of horse that lives mostly in the water, but occassionally comes up on land to eat people and/or sheeps and such.
She sounds Irish - is she Irish? I know she lives in US now, but I'm pretty darn sure she's Irish. She writes with (what I feel) is the perfect balance between description/plot/dialog. I wouldn't say that I'm a "Fan" of many authors in this way - but that is exactly how I feel about Maggie Steifvater.
I love it when I'm such a fan of an author that I don't even need to know the plot of their book - I buy it because I love the way that individual thinks and writes.
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