Blood Red Road Themes

Blood Red Road takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, so it's fair to say that the relationship between humanity and the natural world is a bit tense. As the story goes, there was a once a gr...

Saba's relationship with her family is a total mixed bag. For starters, her dad is obsessed with reading the stars to make prophecies about the future. Typical mid-life crisis stuff, right? Her twi...

Like all good coming of age stories, Blood Red Road features plenty of sibling rivalry, romantic confusion, and political assassination. Er, well, there's just one political assassination, but that...

Saba hates the idea of fate, but everything in Blood Red Road seems to be lining up as predicted. Her father was obsessed with star-reading and other fun ritualistic magic, but she never believed i...

Have you ever heard of chaal, kids? It's the hot new drug sweeping the post-apocalyptic wasteland in Blood Red Road. Careful, though—this stuff is nasty. It causes lethargy in low doses, but if y...

Love makes the world go 'round and all, but what happens if that world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland, like in Blood Red Road? Things get a bit more complicated. Raised in a rather unconventional...

You've seen Mad Max: Fury Road, right? Remember Immortan Joe? Well, that schmohawk doesn't have anything on Blood Red Road's resident post-apocalyptic dictator, Vicar Pinch. Funded by the drug trad...

The post-apocalyptic desert of Blood Red Road isn't the best place to make friends, but Saba doesn't exactly have other options. She may be tough, but she's never had to socialize with others, espe...