Summer Reading Entry One

I have chosen to read the book The Scorpio Races by: Maggie Stiefvater this summer. The main characters in this book are Sean Kendrick and Kate Connolly who goes by Puck. The setting of this book is on an island that is called Thisby. Thisby is a small island with about 4,000 people and on Thisby the largest town is called Skarmouth. The conflict in this book so far is that Puck and her two brothers’ parents died and they are very poor so Puck has entered into the Scorpio Race this year as the first girl to ever do so in hope to win the money to help her and her brothers. But these races are extremely dangerous because the water horses or capiall uisce that race in it are malicious and terrifying and Puck has chosen to race with her normal horse named Dove and the capiall uisce are going to be chomping at the bit to pounce on them. The conflict for Sean is he is a very skilled racer and has won the past couple of years on his prized Corr which is a capiall uisce he has trained but is owned by Mr. Malvern who is very rich and refuses to sell it to Sean. I predict that Sean is going to help Puck win the race so she can get the money she needs and that they will fall in love with each other. A question I have is did the author make up this island or is it a real island and just added in the capiall uisce? I can make a connection to the movie Secretariat because it’s a horse movie and it’s a long shot for her to win just like it’s a long shot for Puck to win.