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* [[spoiler: AndNowYouMustMarryMe: DeMalo to Saba.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Emmi,Saba's nine-year-old sister. She later proves herself.
* [[spoiler: ConvenientMiscarriage: After Saba "lies with" DeMalo in book 2, she becomes pregnant and miscarries the child in book 3.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Emmi,Saba's nine-year-old sister. She later proves herself.
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* SurvivorGuilt: Happens to a few characters but is most noticeable in Saba.
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"Saba lives with her father (her mother is dead), twin brother Lugh, and younger sister Emmi in a wasteland, Silverlake, where laws do not exist. Half a year after Saba and Lugh turned eighteen, four cloaked horsemen show up, kill the father, and kidnap Lugh. The novel revolves around Saba's quest to find and rescue her brother, with whom she has a close relationship. The two are captured by a couple, Rooster Pinch and Miz Pinch, who force Saba to fight in the Colosseum for a man known as the Cage Master. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Pinch, keep Saba fighting by abusing and threatening the life of Emmi."
"Blood Red Road" is the first book in the Dust Lands Trilogy. It is followed by "Rebel Heart" and finishes with "Raging Star". Spoilers for all three books are marked.
"Blood Red Road" is the first book in the Dust Lands Trilogy. It is followed by "Rebel Heart" and finishes with "Raging Star". Spoilers for all three books are marked.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Saba is described as having dark hair and eyes and not being very friendly. She has quite a few admirers to boot.
* ArcherArchetype: Saba
* ArcherArchetype: Saba
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* MoralityPet: Emmi to Saba
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* SurvivorGuilt: Happens to a few characters but is most noticeable in Saba.
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"Saba lives with her father (her mother is dead), twin brother Lugh, and younger sister Emmi in a wasteland, Silverlake, where laws do not exist. Half a year after Saba and Lugh turned eighteen, four cloaked horsemen show up, kill the father, and kidnap Lugh. The novel revolves around Saba's quest to find and rescue her brother, with whom she has a close relationship. The two are captured by a couple, Rooster Pinch and Miz Pinch, who force Saba to fight in the Colosseum for a man known as the Cage Master. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Pinch, keep Saba fighting by abusing and threatening the life of Emmi. Saba and her sister eventually escape from Hopetown, the place where the Colosseum is located, with a fellow fighter named Jack and a group of female warriors known as the Free Hawks.
As the story progresses, Saba learns that Mr. and Mrs. Pinch are actually the parents of a king who uses an addictive drug to control people. This same king is the one who sent the four cloaked horsemen, known as the Tonton, to kidnap Lugh. Not only are more plans made to rescue Lugh, but more conflict ensues and a romance develops between Saba and Jack. In the end, she manages to rescue Lugh but a few people died along the way, like Epona and Ike. At the end of the novel, Jack heads of the The Lost Cause to inform Molly of Ike's death while Saba and her family head west to The Big Water."
As the story progresses, Saba learns that Mr. and Mrs. Pinch are actually the parents of a king who uses an addictive drug to control people. This same king is the one who sent the four cloaked horsemen, known as the Tonton, to kidnap Lugh. Not only are more plans made to rescue Lugh, but more conflict ensues and a romance develops between Saba and Jack. In the end, she manages to rescue Lugh but a few people died along the way, like Epona and Ike. At the end of the novel, Jack heads of the The Lost Cause to inform Molly of Ike's death while Saba and her family head west to The Big Water."
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"Saba lives with her father (her mother is dead), twin brother Lugh, and younger sister Emmi in a wasteland, Silverlake, where laws do not exist. Half a year after Saba and Lugh turned eighteen, four cloaked horsemen show up, kill the father, and kidnap Lugh. The novel revolves around Saba's quest to find and rescue her brother, with whom she has a close relationship. The two are captured by a couple, Rooster Pinch and Miz Pinch, who force Saba to fight in the Colosseum for a man known as the Cage Master. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Pinch, keep Saba fighting by abusing and threatening the life of Emmi. Saba and her sister eventually escape from Hopetown, the place where the Colosseum is located, with a fellow fighter named Jack and a group of female warriors known as the Free Hawks.\nAs the story progresses, Saba learns that Mr. and Mrs. Pinch are actually the parents of a king who uses an addictive drug to control people. This same king is the one who sent the four cloaked horsemen, known as the Tonton, to kidnap Lugh. Not only are more plans made to rescue Lugh, but more conflict ensues and a romance develops between Saba and Jack. In the end, she manages to rescue Lugh but a few people died along the way, like Epona and Ike. At the end of the novel, Jack heads of the The Lost Cause to inform Molly of Ike's death while Saba and her family head west to The Big Water."
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* BeastOfBattle: Nero has been known to claw at attackers and Tracker fights off other wolfdogs to protect Saba.
* BeastOfBattle: Nero has been known to claw at attackers and Tracker fights off other wolfdogs to protect Saba.
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* TheCharmer: Jack & Ike
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* ParentalAbandonment: Most of the characters' parents have died.
* ParentalAbandonment: Most of the characters' parents have died.
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* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: The Angel of Death has a pet crow. Crows symbolize death in many cultures. She also picks up a wolfdog on the way.
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Saba lives with her father (her mother is dead), twin brother Lugh, and younger sister Emmi in a wasteland, Silverlake, where laws do not exist. Half a year after Saba and Lugh turned eighteen, four cloaked horsemen show up, kill the father, and kidnap Lugh. The novel revolves around Saba's quest to find and rescue her brother, with whom she has a close relationship. The two are captured by a couple, Rooster Pinch and Miz Pinch, who force Saba to fight in the Colosseum for a man known as the Cage Master. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Pinch, keep Saba fighting by abusing and threatening the life of Emmi. Saba and her sister eventually escape from Hopetown, the place where the Colosseum is located, with a fellow fighter named Jack and a group of female warriors known as the Free Hawks.
As the story progresses, Saba learns that Mr. and Mrs. Pinch are actually the parents of a king who uses an addictive drug to control people. This same king is the one who sent the four cloaked horsemen, known as the Tonton, to kidnap Lugh. Not only are more plans made to rescue Lugh, but more conflict ensues and a romance develops between Saba and Jack. In the end, she manages to rescue Lugh but a few people died along the way, like Epona and Ike. At the end of the novel, Jack heads of the The Lost Cause to inform Molly of Ike's death while Saba and her family head west to The Big Water.
As the story progresses, Saba learns that Mr. and Mrs. Pinch are actually the parents of a king who uses an addictive drug to control people. This same king is the one who sent the four cloaked horsemen, known as the Tonton, to kidnap Lugh. Not only are more plans made to rescue Lugh, but more conflict ensues and a romance develops between Saba and Jack. In the end, she manages to rescue Lugh but a few people died along the way, like Epona and Ike. At the end of the novel, Jack heads of the The Lost Cause to inform Molly of Ike's death while Saba and her family head west to The Big Water.
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As the story progresses, Saba learns that Mr. and Mrs. Pinch are actually the parents of a king who uses an addictive drug to control people. This same king is the one who sent the four cloaked horsemen, known as the Tonton, to kidnap Lugh. Not only are more plans made to rescue Lugh, but more conflict ensues and a romance develops between Saba and Jack. In the end, she manages to rescue Lugh but a few people died along the way, like Epona and Ike. At the end of the novel, Jack heads of the The Lost Cause to inform Molly of Ike's death while Saba and her family head west to The Big
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* CasualtyInTheRing: The first book explains that in the cage, it's life or death, though fighters are usually killed after they lose three matches.
* DeathByChildbirth: Saba's mother died from complications after giving birth to Emmi.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Maev is mortally wounded but stays behind to fight so the others can escape. She blows herself and all the Tonton in range up.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Saba kills Epona in the first book to prevent her from the horrors of being captured.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Saba kills Epona in the first book to prevent her from the horrors of being captured.]]
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As the story progresses, Saba learns that Mr. and Mrs. Pinch are actually the parents of a king who uses an addictive drug to control people. This same king is the one who sent the four cloaked horsemen, known as the Tonton, to kidnap Lugh. Not only are more plans made to rescue Lugh, but more conflict ensues and a romance develops between Saba and Jack. In the end, she manages to rescue Lugh but a few people died along the way, like Epona and Ike. At the end of the novel, Jack heads of the The Lost Cause to inform Molly of Ike's death while Saba and her family head west to The Big Water.
"Blood Red Road" is the first book in the Dust Lands Trilogy. It is followed by "Rebel Heart" and finishes with "Raging Star". Spoilers for all three books are marked.
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* AmazonBrigade: The Free Hawks, a truly badass girl gang.
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Emmi,Saba's nine-year-old sister. She later proves herself.
*BloodSportOfAction: BraidsOfAction: At the start of the book, both Saba and Lugh. Well, until her head is forcibly shaved.bother Lugh sport waist-length braids.
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* NuSpeling: One of the book's hallmarks.
* StylisticSuck: Saba is young and completely illiterate. It shows.
* WouldHurtAChild: The lovely Miz Pinch; Saba herself.
* NuSpeling: One of the book's hallmarks.
* StylisticSuck: Saba is young and completely illiterate. It shows.
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* FutureBadass: Pretty much every character.More than one, but especially Saba. After all, the girl does earn the nickname "Angel of Death" during her cage-fighting career.
* NuSpeling: One of the book's hallmarks.
* StylisticSuck: Saba is young and completely illiterate. It shows.
illiterate, and her narration reflects this. (At one point, she even refers to the written word as "a series of black squiggles".)
* WouldHurtAChild: The lovely MizPinch; Pinch, who kidnaps Saba herself.and Emmi with an eye to selling Saba into cage-fighting slavery; Saba herself, who can't resist backhanding Emmi across the face on at least one occasion.
* WouldHurtAChild: The lovely Miz
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* {{Stylistic Suck}}: Saba is young and completely illiterate. It shows.
* {{Would Hurt a Child}}: The lovely Miz Pinch; Saba herself.
* {{Future Badass}}: Pretty much every character.
* {{Nu Spelling}}: One of the book's hallmarks.
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