Today we're looking at the many different covers of Moira Young's Blood Red Road and choosing a winner! Some are rejackets and others are
foreign language covers.
Saba lives in
Silverlake, a wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms where her family
scavenge from landfills left by the long-gone Wrecker civilization.
After four cloaked horsemen kidnap her beloved twin brother Lugh, she
teams up with daredevil Jack and the Free Hawks, a girl gang of
Revolutionaries.
Saba learns that she is a fierce fighter, an
unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. And she has the power to
take down a corrupt society from the inside. Saba and her new friends
stage a showdown that change the course of her civilization.
I have read this one, and I rated it 5/5. It's an amazing adventure story with a few Dystopian elements and lots of fight scenes, if you like that sort of thing!
(UK/US) My cover is on the left! These are what I would call the original covers and while I love them both, they both fell victim to the publishers whims - the sequel's cover matches neither of these, it matches a new cover released around the same time. I always find this incredibly frustrating.
(US-UK/French) Here's the new red cover that you may be used to on the right. It's nice enough but I'm still annoyed. Meanwhile the French liked the original US cover but not it's title, so they changed that. Translated it reads 'Saba Angel of Death' which isn't creepy at all.
(German/Indonesian) I'm seriously in love with both of these covers, the German version of the original US cover is much nicer. My only fault with it is that the font makes me think of pirates...
(Czech/Dutch) Here's some weird covers now, with Czech feeling like an African story and more pirate vibes from the Dutch. It's the ripped paper look and the font on the authors name, don't judge me.
Actually, have you seen the lady's weird smoke hair on the Dutch one? That's seriously odd.
(Italian/Portuguese) It's a personal thing but I'm not a fan of the animated look on book covers... something about them seems younger than they are. I have so many issues with the Portuguese cover girl though. Why is her hair so nice? It's an apocalyptic desert! I can almost smell the make up. And is that... *gasp* earrings I can see???
(Serbian/Swedish) I know I have nit picky issues with book covers but that's why I make these posts so yeah. I hate, hate, hate, the Swedish font on the right. I judge anyone that uses it (looking at you, Name of The Star publishers). I also have no idea what is going on with the cover... OH. Blood Red Road so they... literally went with red. I do really like the Serbian cover though, especially the crow. Even if they seem to have tried to do a Hunger Games font.
Winner
No faults at all with this one, it's got a desert, got some trees, got a crow, got a chick that actually looks like she could be Saba, yeah, I'm pretty happy!