![]() ![]() Pa and another man, their neighbour, lie dead in the dust. They aren't interested in Saba or Em and ride off with her brother. Suddenly hooded riders pitch up during a terrible sandstorm - start shooting and they grab her brother Lugh because he was born exactly at midwinter 18 years ago. Saba seems to be the one to keep things together since their mother died some time ago. ![]() The Pa is casting bones to make it rain and they are near starving. It's a tough existence and Lugh, the brother wants out. Saba lives with her Pa (who has gone crazy) her twin brother Lugh and little sister Em on a farm by a dried out lake. Nothing is explained as to why this is so, but that probably doesn't matter, it's a common enough theme. The novel begins in a post-climate changed, post-industrial apocalyptic USA. Moira Young (a former Canadian Actor) has carefully blended all the dystopian genre has to offer and certainly hit target. ![]() ![]() Take a pinch of Hunger Games, a peck of Gladiator and a major sniff of The Droughtlanders, add a dash of Mad Max and The Road and you have an explosive cocktail to play with. There is something quite calculating about Blood Red Road and the story of Saba from the Dustlands. ![]()
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