Wild Things: YA Grown-Up discussion

I just finished the audio version of The Scorpio Races and it was amazing. I love the view it took on Water Horses and the story was so well done, you just fall in love with it. Has any one else read this one?

I have read the book and bought the audio - loved it too. The guy who reads Sean in the audio is just so perfect it is like Sean is alive. I've been very involved with horses for a great deal of my life, and the way she wrote the Water Horses was just something a horse person can appreciate. They are wild and magic and supernatural and yet still remain equine. LOVED IT. My only negative about the book is that I found Puck's chapters kind of boring. I just never got interested in her brothers and her problems and was waiting for another Sean chapter or her chapters when he was there. I cried and I don't often cry in books. It is a wonderful story and her writing can be magic in itself.

I read this book earlier in the year and fell in love with it. I just started the audio version and cannot believe I am enjoying that EVEN more. Both readers are exquisite.

Maggie Stiefvater definitely knows how to choose narrators for her audio books. I was not just crazy about the ones for Shiver but the ones for the other books in the trilogy were just wonderful. Cole especially but all of them.

What I really love about Scorpio Races is that Puck and Sean don't have a typical angst ridden romance. They just click and kinda balance each other. Very refreshing in comparison to other badly written YA books.
I really liked it although I just finished The Raven Boys and liked it more :)

My favorite thing about this book is the matter of fact way she mentions the iron, 3 and 7 knots, etc. that are obviously charms, magic or wards of some sort but she never explains. She makes you think about them.

I also love how vague she is about the differences between the Capsul Ishka (sp?, I'm listening this time) and land horses. She mentions some, but much is left to the readers imagination.

Madi wrote: "What I really love about Scorpio Races is that Puck and Sean don't have a typical angst ridden romance. They just click and kinda balance each other. Very refreshing in comparison to other badly ..."

And yes, it was refreshing to read a romance that wasn't ridiculously dramatic and angst-y. :)

I love all of Maggie's books! Scorpio Races was one of the nominated books for the CT Teen Nutmeg Book Award - loved that one and encouraged so many students to read it! Raven Boys series is great too! And I read Sinner over the summer. Have you read Lament and Ballad?

I've read everything she has written. Started with Lament and Ballad. Funny, I have two granddaughters (sisters), one loves all of her books and especially the Shiver series and the other one does not like them at all. Reminds me how different we all are - and the three of us usually love the same books. The Raven Boys series is indeed great and must re-read before the next book!

This is the only one of hers I have read. I bought the "Shiver" bundle for my Nook, though and plan on reading it soon.

The Shiver trilogy is my favorite, but each of her books or series is unique. Interesting that she can do that as I just read a book from a lesser known series that I love, but the author is writing other things now and made what I thought would be a series into a trilogy. Her other books just do not appeal to me. Another author of a much loved series just came out with a book I did not like at all. When they create a world unlike any other and do it so well, it is disappointing when they leave that world. Maggie can pull it off though. I have yet to read anything of hers I did not love. I was not just crazy about her first two books, Lament and Ballad, but she just got better and better after those - obviously I liked them well enough to pick up another of her books.

I just started The Raven Boys because I came across it first, am only a little in and can already tell I love the writing at least. I'm a little worried because 3 different friends here on GR said they loved the book until the very end. None of them went on to read the others.

I'm good about putting aside other people's opinions as I read, and am also a reader who has loved books for the way they were written without liking the actual story, so I'm looking forward to this.

gosh I read The Raven Boys two years ago so hard to remember the end. I went and looked at my review and this is the last paragraph of my review. "Add to this a mysterious place they find along the ley line with trees that whisper to them in Latin, a hollow tree that gives each of them a vision when they slip inside of it, the discovery that someone else is looking for the same ancient find that they are, a murder, witchcraft. Maggie has as usual created wonderful characters and a place we have never been to before. As the book was nearing the end I felt an awful sense that it was going to end with me wanting a lot more. It didn't end on a terrible cliffhanger, but with more mystery. Loved it. Ready for the next book. I did not mark this favorite series since it is the first book but it has the definite possibility."