![]() ![]() ![]() “By rights, she shouldn’t of lasted longer ’n a day or two.” Neither sister has ever left home before. “A ugly little red scrap with a heartbeat like a whisper,” as Saba sees it. She also must look after Emmi, whom she dislikes and blames for her mother’s death. “Blood Red Road” is the opening installment in a planned trilogy by the first-time novelist Moira Young, and it sets the stage for a classic hero’s journey. (If they arrived to ring in the apocalypse, they’re too late this place has been in ruins for as long as anyone can remember.) They gallop off with the one thing that still matters to Saba: her twin brother, Lugh, her “golden heart.” It soon gets worse: Saba’s father is shot dead by a band of four horsemen. The lake beside her family’s shack is drying up, replaced by a wasteland of dust storms and heat. Her mother died nine years earlier, giving birth to Saba’s sister, Emmi. She lives long after Earth’s last major civilization, the Wreckers, went extinct. How many times can the world come to an end? For Saba, the fatalistic 18-year-old heroine of “Blood Red Road,” quite a few. ![]()
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