Blood Red Road
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4.4 • 156 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
The book that will “blow you away”** has a dazzling new look in paperback!
Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when four cloaked horsemen capture Lugh, Saba's world is shattered, and she embarks on a quest to get him back.
Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the outside world, Saba discovers she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba’s unrelenting search for Lugh stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.
Blood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetic writing style, and an epic love story—making Moira Young is one of the most exciting new voices in teen fiction.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Young's powerful debut, first in the Dustlands series, is elevated above its now familiar postapocalyptic setting by an intriguing prose style and strong narrative voice that show a distinct Cormac McCarthy vibe. When 18-year-old Saba's father is killed and her twin brother, Lugh, is kidnapped, she sets out to rescue him, along with their younger sister, Emmi, and Saba's intelligent raven, Nero. Their travels across the desert wasteland bring them to a violent city in which Saba is forced to fight for her life in an arena. When she escapes with the help of a group of women warriors, she and her new allies (including a handsome and infuriating male warrior named Jack) try to prevent Lugh from being sacrificed. Young's writing style channeled through Saba's wonderfully defined narrative voice may be off-putting at first, but readers will quickly get used to the lack of quotation marks and idiosyncratic spelling and punctuation ("There ain't nuthin written in the stars. They're jest lights in the sky") and be riveted by the book's fast-paced mix of action and romance. It's a natural for Hunger Games fans. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
AMAZING!!!!!
This book is amazing. I literally didn't put it down until I finished it. The book has a very close variation to the hunger games ( which by the is also an AMAZING book ) with Saba and her determination, it really reminded me of katness and how she is also determined to stay alive. The plot line for the book was so well thought out and I loved every second of it. Although at first I was find of confused cause the whole book has like 50 grammar and punctuation problems on every page, but you get used to it. Over all it was an awesome book and a must read.
MOVIE?!
I loved this series in high school (2012)!!! My only question is, WHEN WILL THIS BECOME A MOVIE FRANCHISE?!?!? This would be a blockbuster HIT!
We need to see this in live action NOW
Just wow
So when I first picked up the book at my library it really threw me through a loop, the writing style is so unique and it made me feel like I was actually witnessing the main character Saba actually going through this land, the emotional response that this book earned from me was intense satisfaction, even though it was completely bizarre, this book is a must read for anyone that is a fan of dystopian novels (obviously I myself am a massive fan of dystopian societies and worlds) it was only slightly reminiscent of hunger games and only during a certain part of the book, the rest feels like an fantasy quest from a Tolkien novel but set in a gunslinging, cage fighting, murderous world that would sooner let you drown in sand than let you walk through a forest, Moira young has changed how I view young adult novels