The Scorpio Races

By: Maggie Stiefvater

Narrated by: Steve West, Fiona Hardingham

Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race across a cliff—with more than just their lives at stake should they lose.

©2011 Maggie Stiefvater (P)2011 Scholastic Audio

I'm suprise with the story

If you could sum up The Scorpio Races in three words, what would they be?

Amazing, magnificent, unbelievable

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Scorpio Races?

All the book is amazing, but I think the final is the best moment... don't exist word to explain how beatiful is all the story, and the final is perfect.

Which character – as performed by Steve West and Fiona Hardingham – was your favorite?

It's possible to say, because the story is so different, that all the characters are important, and the scene is the principal character.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

I wouldn't like to see this book in a movie, because it's so amazing the story, that the best way to be catch by the magic is reading*listening the story. The movie couldn't express the real beautiful of the story.

Any additional comments?

Is impossible write about this book, because doesn't exist word to express how amazing is the story. It doesn't talk about love between a boy and a girl, or about win or lose a game. It's about relationships, about true, about respect. Is about make the right choose, and not just choose something.Is about understand the game is just a game, win or lose is just this, only a momentt. But in the life, we win and lose all the time, and sometimes, lose is the best way to find the way and the true.I love it this book!

delightful, different, literate and wonderful narr

I haven't finished this but am confident in leaving this review. this is a delightful listen. the story is original and interesting, a blend of familiar and unknown. the narrators are excellent, and I will seek out other works by each of them. worderful use of language, inventive turn-of-phrases and nuanced characters.

Captivating story & performance - and I'm not a YA

I considered buying this book many times and hesitated because I am a senior citizen not a young adult! I needn’t have worried. The main characters are struggling with typical coming of age issues (although in very untypical circumstances) but, the story doesn’t bog down in them. I found the characters to be well developed with their own strengths and quirks.

This book was my introduction to Maggie Stiefvater. The book has an engaging plot that has been summarized by other reviewers. I really enjoyed her technique of switching points of view and yet still moving the story forward. I don’t know whether to give kudos to the author or the narrators for giving Puck and Sean their own distinctive mannerisms/speech patterns.

Given the plot, it is no surprise that there are some violent episodes in the book. However, the author did a good job of describing the situations without excessively gruesome details.

It is evident that the author understands horses and she keep me intrigued with her Capaill Uisge creatures. I rode horses every day for most of my youth, and after ‘reading’ this book I swear we had a Capaill Uisge or two in our stable.

The narrators were excellent. They pronounced the unusual words such as Capaill Uisge consistently and clearly. Their pace and delivery complimented Ms. Stiefvater’s wonderful prose so that I was reluctant to leave the Capaill Uisge world.

Poetic and so beautifully written!!

I loved this book I started and couldn't stop listening. The performances where so well done I could see the entire story unfold in front of me as I listened.

Great book, fully lived up to my expectations after The raven boys

Loved it! Great read and perfectly read by Steve West and Fiona Hardingham. I was hoping it would be as intriguing and well composed as The raven boys cycle and it certainly lived up to it.

Great combination of fantasy, drama, music!

loved narration and music, could picture characters and terrain, very entertaining and interesting... keep writing!!

Narrators were perfect.

Narrators and story were perfect. One of my favorite audio books ever!! This is my third time listening and it was just as good this time as the first.

Beautiful story, beautiful writing, beautiful narr

I adored absolutely everything about this audiobook. The characters, the story, the narration...all of it is flawless!

Brutal but ethereal

Magical Meat-Eating Water Horses and the People Who Love Them.

The audiobook readers are excellent, I definitely recommend listening to this book.

This is my third Stiefvater book and I loved it. It had a dream-like quality that reminded me of the Raven Boys, like the characters are in a little bit of a dream world. Puck and Sean Kendrick are both made of horses and saltwater and sand, and I loved them for it. My only question is why don't they have friends? I guess that made it feel like a fairy tale more than a novel-- the characters were more part of the island than part of its society. The island felt very remote-- like Orkney or Shetland or something. I was really worried that Stiefvater was going to rip my heart out and stomp on it, which is what often happens in books with animals, but she did not. Thank you, Maggie, for not stomping on my heart. The story has a windblown, desolate, mournful vibe but it's not sad. There are romantic elements in this book but it's not really the main story. Puck is fierce but not the sword-swinging, rageful kind (though she does occasionally like to look terrifying, which I love)-- she's quiet and determined and she's the first woman to ride in the Scorpio Races but she's more focused on her own life than on the people who are against her.

BEST book in a long time

The story is so original, the readers are perfect, the setting is magical — what’s not to love? I’m completely enchanted.