Best of the Month

Today’s RTW question from YA Highway: What’s the best book you read this month?

This is an interesting question because I didn’t read any books that I loved this month. There were good books, interesting books, important books, but none that made me say ‘wow’. So I’m going to answer with the most intriguing book I read this month:

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

I’m honestly not quite sure how I feel about this novel. It’s so different than the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, which I adored. This novel is older, darker. It takes the mythology of deadly water horses and turns it upside down; in a small island community brave (or foolish) men capture these horses each November to race them. This year, for various reasons, Kate ‘Puck’ Connelley joins the men and begins a relationship with the race’s past champion, Sean. Their relationship isn’t the sigh-and-swoon type of Sam and Grace. I never actually felt really connected to them. I cared more about Sean’s water horse. But the language in this novel, especially the sparse dialog, proves once again that Maggie Stiefvater is a talented writer.

If you don’t have a galley, The Scorpio Races publishes October 18^th. I’m eager to hear everyone else’s thoughts! And tune in the week for my monthly Reading Roundup for mini reviews of all the books I’ve read this month!