Blood Red Road by
Moira Young
4 out of 5 thumbs up
Blood Red Road
takes place in the future where we meet Saba, a teenage girl who lives with her
father, twin brother, and younger sister in a barren, dusty place near a dried-up
lake. One day, some strange men arrive and, without warning, kill her father and kidnap her brother. Saba leaves her home in the waste to look for
her brother and has quite the adventure along the way.
Overall, I liked this book.
It’s quick-paced and engaging.
The book is written in first person, and the main character, Saba, is
narrator. It is also written in the same
language Saba uses, so it’s like she’s actually talking to you. Here’s an excerpt from the book.
We
ain’t had a drop of rain fer near six months now. Even the spring that feed the lake’s startin
to run dry. You gotta walk some ways out
now to fill a bucket. Pretty soon, there won’t be no point in callin it by its
name.
Silverlake.
It was a little distracting at first for me, but once I
realized and accepted the fact that the whole book is written this way, I was
able to immerse myself more in the story rather than focus on Saba’s bad
grammar. It even started to grow on me
after a while.
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