To mark the omen, their parents tattooed them with matching moons high on their right cheekbones. Scrawny Saba came after, under a full moon at the year's turning. She's the other half, the darker half of her golden-haired twin brother, Lugh. True Grit, except the protagonist, a teen named Saba, is arguably fiercer than the young women in those latter titles. The first in a new trilogy that has already been optioned for the screen by Ridley Scott, this book is part revenge fantasy, part coming-of-age, post-apocalyptic dystopia. The setting is a wasted landscape ruined long ago by a civilization called "The Wreckers." It's moody stuff – fitting for a young adult fantasy. Because Moira Young'sīlood Red Road takes place in a bad post-history, that pyre is fuelled by tires. There's a kidnapping, a double murder and an oath over a funeral pyre.
Ages 14%E2%80%93up.In the first 30 pages, the world ends. They're jest lights in the sky") and be riveted by the book's fast-paced mix of action and romance. Young's writing style%E2%80%94channeled through Saba's wonderfully defined narrative voice%E2%80%94may 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.
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. 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 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. 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.
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