The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
An incredibly stylish re-imagining of the kelpie myth. Fast paced, edgy, yet beautifully descriptive of an island haunted by water horses from the sea. A remote island that time has seemingly forgotten, except for the month of November each year when these kelpies are perilously captured by humans and raced against each other, often to the death, for a small fortune. Water horses who glide the ocean deeps like mermaids, and seek to eat human flesh and blood and leave the sea at night to prey in the dark, like vampires. I have read many a story in which kelpies played a small part, and it was an absolute delight to read a whole book devoted to just them and no other fae creature, even though the author took many liberties with the kelpie mythology, it just didn't matter because it was so damn brilliant.
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