This was SO good! I listened to the audiobook, and it had two narrators, one for Kate and one for Sean. It was my first Maggie Stiefvater book and she is a fantastic writer, having conjured up a vivid, atmospheric sense of place in the island of Thisby, as well as a terrifyingly real creature in the carnivorous water horses. I enjoyed the very real love for the horses, island life, oh-so-slow-building-but-real-romance, and dealing with the supernatural that made this a little bit Black Stallion, a little bit Anne of Green Gables, a little bit Brides of Rollrock Island, and something else entirely its own -- more edgy and scary than other horse books. I'm now a Maggie Stiefvater fangirl.