The Split: A Young Adult Book Review Podcast for Readers and Writers

Episode 48 - Blood Red Road by Moira Young

09.23.2015 - By Bryan Cohen and Robert Scanlon: YA Sci-Fi and Fantasy AuthorsPlay

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On the road again with Bryan and Robert as they review... Blood Red Road by Moira Young! 

Saba and Lugh are twins, but they couldn't be more different. In the parched dry lands left after The Wreckers ruined it, the two eighteen year-olds scavenge for scarce food, eking out an existence to support Pa and their nine year-old sister, Emmi. Pa ain't been too good since Ma died, starin at the skies and muttering about everythin all bein in the stars an all.

Unlike her slightly older brother (always first, then me behind), Saba is prickly and morose, often mean to Emmi. She dotes on Lugh though, and relies on his instinct and kindness to keep them all sane.

Until the Tonton arrive and kidnap Lugh, proclaiming him to be "the one, born at midsummer."

Pa is killed in the kidnapping, and Saba is beside herself, angry and grieving all at once, and she resolves to pursue their attackers and free Lugh.

First she must ditch Emmi, who would only be a hindrance, and make her way across the dangerous Sandsea.

Emmi, of course, has other ideas ... and so begins a pacey, twisting, dark tale of revenge.

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