Blood Red Road
Author: Moira Young
Publisher: McElderry Books
5 out of 5 stars
The sun beats down on you, a relentless torrent of heat that feel like it’s melting your skin away. You reach for your canteen for a drink, only to realize that there’s nothing left. Your heavy tongue begs for water, but the only thing you have to swallow is your own spit. You just have to go through the motions, slowly putting one foot in front of the other, trying not to think of how much longer you have to go. Around you is open desert, with rolling sand dunes that never seem to end. In the distance you think you see a lake of water, but it’s probably just your eyes playing tricks on you. You keep going, hoping that there really is something there. All you’ve got left is the hope that you’ll find him. He goes first, and then you follow. That’s how it always is. At least, you hope so this time.