The Scorpio Races

I've struck another book off my to-read list (YAY!! *humour me? :P )

Did Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races over the weekend. By now you'll know I suck at summarising books, so I won't. La-di-da...

I like the UK cover on the left :P

Let's just say there's a teenage boy and girl living on an island ("He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious?"), flesh-eating water horses, and every year there's a race on said horses which ends in a bloodbath.

If that's your kind of thing, then that's your kind of thing. Although, I kinda like the action bits more, which there wasn't really enough of. Ohh, words can't say enough how I hate those 100-page 'oh woe is us' sort of narratives.

I won't touch Ms Stiefvater's other books - Lament, Ballad, Shiver, Linger, Forever - but what really made me really wanna read Scorpio Races was this:

ISN'T THAT SO AWESOME? DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU WANT TO PICK UP THE BOOK?!!

Hehe. The artwork and music is by the author herself! *respect*

... But the yellow-ish orange colouring gave me the (wrong) impression that the book was set in a desert >,<

And I thought the characters were Mongolian/Asian....