“ It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.

At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.

Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.”

This book starts out on a lonely little island where our two main character, Puck and Sean, live two totally different lifestyles.

Sean is the typical tall, dark, and brooding 18-year-old man. He mostly keeps to himself and never engages in a direct conversation unless the situation calls for it. He’s a lone orphan working  as a stable boy for the richest man on the island.

Puck, like it says in the synopsis, is very different from Sean Kendrick. She lives with her brothers – one older and one younger – after both of her parents were killed by the mythical carnivorous water horse, also known as capall uisce. She’s a headstrong female heroine with a stubborn streak and fierce determination to protect her family.

Steifvater, like her other books in the Wolves Of Mercy Falls trilogy, switches the point of view from Sean to Puck nearly every chapter.

We get to see how Sean’s mind works: how and what he notices in other people, their strengths and weaknesses, regarding everything that’s laid before him as a challenge.

Steifvater’s poetic writing will catapult you into the dangerous world where capall uisce rule the sea and the area around it.