It will come as no surprise to many in the fandom that Jack has won the poll for who you’d rather walk the dust lands with...by a mile!
The results are as follows:
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
The Dustlands Mystery Revealed : FIRST GIVEAWAY!
Yes, we've reached 150 followers on Twitter!
And now we can reveal to you that we have two signed copies of Moira's books to give away! Moira has very generously agreed to sign a UK edition of Blood Red Road and Rebel Heart and send them to the winner chosen at random from our raffle!
This is an international competition.
All you have to do is enter below in our Rafflecopter widget and earn yourself the maximum
amount of entries. If you tweet each day about the giveaway you can earn even more!
The competition starts on Saturday 30th March at 12am GMT and ends exactly two weeks later on Saturday 13th April at 12am GMT.
So hurry up and get all the entries you can in to win SIGNED copies of the Dust Land's first two books!
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~Ella
Read Along: Prologue
‘It was all set in the stars the moment the world began.’
Moira Young’s Blood Red Road doesn’t lull one in gently. Instead, the prologue introduces Saba...by introducing her brother. In her own individual dialect she welcomes the reader to her world by the story of how she came into her world.
‘Lugh got born first...then me...that’s how it’s meant to be’. The relationship between this brother and sister is clearly going to be a focus point of the book’s plot. Saba’s narrative, although her name is not yet revealed, begins with her brother’s name, ‘Lugh’, denoting his importance to her. But there is also seemingly an inferiority Saba feels to her brother; she looks upon him like her role model. The list she gives of their differing physical qualities paints him in a more attractive, positive light whilst she is self-deprecating. This is obviously a character quality that will come into play later in the novel; for Saba to find who she is, away from her brother, and become her own person – someone worthy of the praise she awards Lugh.
There is also a strong theme of fate running through the prologue, even if it is only a few pages long. ‘Because everythin’s set...it was all set in the stars’. Such language can only suggest that something big is coming for Saba and her brother and the notion that it was always meant to happen highlights the significance of the events to come. This is emphasised by Saba’s words about her father, ‘I see the way Pa looks at [us] sometimes...and I wish he’d tell us what he knows’. However, this sense of fate is not the romantic ideal of destiny, instead it appears gritty and negative; it sets up tension and suspense, and most of all – anticipation.
Ultimately, the prologue enters Saba’s world in an unorthodox way; we know little about her, a lot about her brother, nothing about her world, and that something is coming, but not what. It introduces interesting concepts and the feeling that Blood Red Road might be the journey its name promises it to be!
~Ella
So a wild Nero appeared on my bookshelf today...
I had a random urge to paint Nero today, so I quickly whipped this up! The way Moira brought Nero alive in this story is one of my favourite things about it, and I adore everything he symbolizes, and how much of a big role he plays. I really enjoy his and Saba's relationship, the spontaneity of some of his appearances, and I'm looking forward to seeing how he's portrayed in the movie, and seeing him again in the third book! If I could tame a crow, I'd definitely have me a Nero (I'm satisfied with a cat for now).
Do any of you Free Hawks have anything to say about Nero? Comment or tell us on twitter @DustlandsFans!
~Bushra
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Weekly Blood Red Road Read Along!
Sometimes a book is just so good you have to read it twice. Or multiple times in the case of BRR. And thus begins a weekly read along of Blood Red Road – section by section!
These will aim to recap the main events of the ‘chapter’, key quotes, themes and character developments. We’d love your input on the articles and to hear what you liked most about each section.
For the schedule this series of posts will follow please see below, so that you can read along with us if you wish!
Thursday 28th March: Prologue
Thursday 4th April: Silverlake
Thursday 11th April: The Trackway
Thursday 18th April: Crosscreek
Thursday 25th April: Sandsea
Thursday 2nd May: Hopetown
Thursday 9th May: Hopetown, One Month Later
Thursday 16th May: Darktrees
Thursday 23rd May: The Black Mountains
Thursday 30th May: Freedom Fields
Thursday 6th June: Evaluation and Reviews
We hope to do the same with Rebel Heart after Blood Red Road! Hopefully you will join us on our journey back into the Dustlands!
~Ella
What to read after finishing BRR and RH?
Let's just say that you've read both Blood Red Road, and Rebel Heart. The currently 'untitled' book #3 in the Dustlands trilogy has a tentative release date of January 2014. What should you read to keep you busy until then?
Here are some books I think fans of Dustlands will love:
1. Legend by Marie Lu
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic’s highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country’s most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.
From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June’s brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family’s survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias’s death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.
Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills.
Get it on Amazon!
2. Und
er The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse.
Get it on Amazon!
3. Enclave by Ann Aguirre
In Deuce’s world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed ‘brat’ has trained into one of three groups–Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars they bear on their arms. Deuce has wanted to be a Huntress for as long as she can remember.
As a Huntress, her purpose is clear—to brave the dangerous tunnels outside the enclave and bring back meat to feed the group while evading ferocious monsters known as Freaks. She’s worked toward this goal her whole life, and nothing’s going to stop her, not even a beautiful, brooding Hunter named Fade. When the mysterious boy becomes her partner, Deuce’s troubles are just beginning.
Down below, deviation from the rules is punished swiftly and harshly, and Fade doesn’t like following orders. At first Deuce thinks he’s crazy, but as death stalks their sanctuary, and it becomes clear the elders don’t always know best, Deuce wonders if Fade might be telling the truth. Her partner confuses her; she’s never known a boy like him before, as prone to touching her gently as using his knives with feral grace.
As Deuce’s perception shifts, so does the balance in the constant battle for survival. The mindless Freaks, once considered a threat only due to their sheer numbers, show signs of cunning and strategy… but the elders refuse to heed any warnings. Despite imminent disaster, the enclave puts their faith in strictures and sacrifice instead. No matter how she tries, Deuce cannot stem the dark tide that carries her far from the only world she’s ever known.
Get it on Amazon!
4. Partials by Dan Wells
The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out.
Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she's not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them--connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.
Dan Wells, acclaimed author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, takes readers on a pulsepounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question--one where our humanity is both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival.
Get it on Amazon!
5. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
Get it on Amazon!
6. Gone by Michael Grant
In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. GONE.
Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.
Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents--unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers--that grow stronger by the day.
It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...
Get it on Amazon!
7. The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee -- whose thoughts Todd can hear too, whether he wants to or not -- stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden -- a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.
But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?
Get it on Amazon!
8. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The first book in the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series—The Maze Runner is a modern classic, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.
Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every thirty days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.
Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.
Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.
Get it on Amazon!
9. Divergent by Veronica Roth
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
Get it on Amazon!
10. Across The Universe by Beth Revis
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
Get it on Amazon!
These are only a small fraction of the dystopian books that I've read and enjoyed. If you need more recommendations just go on Goodreads and check out popular dystopian books!
~Jon
Here are some books I think fans of Dustlands will love:
1. Legend by Marie Lu
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic’s highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country’s most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.
From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June’s brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family’s survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias’s death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.
Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills.
Get it on Amazon!
2. Und
er The Never Sky by Veronica RossiSince she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse.
Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive.
A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.
In her enthralling debut, Veronica Rossi sends readers on an unforgettable adventure set in a world brimming with harshness and beauty.
Get it on Amazon!
3. Enclave by Ann AguirreIn Deuce’s world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed ‘brat’ has trained into one of three groups–Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars they bear on their arms. Deuce has wanted to be a Huntress for as long as she can remember.
As a Huntress, her purpose is clear—to brave the dangerous tunnels outside the enclave and bring back meat to feed the group while evading ferocious monsters known as Freaks. She’s worked toward this goal her whole life, and nothing’s going to stop her, not even a beautiful, brooding Hunter named Fade. When the mysterious boy becomes her partner, Deuce’s troubles are just beginning.
Down below, deviation from the rules is punished swiftly and harshly, and Fade doesn’t like following orders. At first Deuce thinks he’s crazy, but as death stalks their sanctuary, and it becomes clear the elders don’t always know best, Deuce wonders if Fade might be telling the truth. Her partner confuses her; she’s never known a boy like him before, as prone to touching her gently as using his knives with feral grace.
As Deuce’s perception shifts, so does the balance in the constant battle for survival. The mindless Freaks, once considered a threat only due to their sheer numbers, show signs of cunning and strategy… but the elders refuse to heed any warnings. Despite imminent disaster, the enclave puts their faith in strictures and sacrifice instead. No matter how she tries, Deuce cannot stem the dark tide that carries her far from the only world she’s ever known.
Get it on Amazon!
4. Partials by Dan Wells
The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out.
Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she's not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them--connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.
Dan Wells, acclaimed author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, takes readers on a pulsepounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question--one where our humanity is both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival.
Get it on Amazon!
5. Shatter Me by Tahereh MafiJuliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
Get it on Amazon!
6. Gone by Michael Grant
In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. GONE.
Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.
Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents--unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers--that grow stronger by the day.
It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...
Get it on Amazon!
7. The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick NessPrentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee -- whose thoughts Todd can hear too, whether he wants to or not -- stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden -- a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.
But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?
Get it on Amazon!
8. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The first book in the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series—The Maze Runner is a modern classic, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.
Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every thirty days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.
Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.
Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.
Get it on Amazon!
9. Divergent by Veronica RothIn Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
Get it on Amazon!
10. Across The Universe by Beth RevisSeventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
Get it on Amazon!
These are only a small fraction of the dystopian books that I've read and enjoyed. If you need more recommendations just go on Goodreads and check out popular dystopian books!
~Jon
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Dustlands Mystery
Hey Free Hawks! We have a crazy awesome announcement to make when we reach 150 followers on Twitter! Twitter has been such a great way to get in touch with fans like you and we'd like to continue to do so. So if you tell your friends, to tell their friends, to tell their friends, to follow us on Twitter, we'll be closer and closer to posting our really exciting announcement that you won't want to miss! Trust us. Xx
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Amazing Fan art made by schnatz.deviantart.com / @storytimeblog on Twitter. Follow them![/caption]
So it would mean the world, if you followed us at
@DustlandsFans on Twitter. And remember to follow the one and only Moira Young, creator of the whole reason we're here! The author of Blood Red Road! @moira_young
:)
~Jake
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Amazing Fan art made by schnatz.deviantart.com / @storytimeblog on Twitter. Follow them![/caption]So it would mean the world, if you followed us at
@DustlandsFans on Twitter. And remember to follow the one and only Moira Young, creator of the whole reason we're here! The author of Blood Red Road! @moira_young
:)
~Jake
Who would you walk the Dustlands with?
Every time you read a book, there's a certain character that just grabs your attention. You pay more attention to their dialogue; you've got a smile on your face when you read scenes they're present in. You want to pull them out of the page and have them stand next to you just so you can talk to them.
Different things make people connect with varying characters. Perhaps they are relatable or alternatively, so different from you that it's intriguing. Maybe they make you laugh or cry or swoon or so mad that you have to put the book down for a few minutes or else the pages could be showering down around you as you rip them out in rage! Whatever the reason, irrational or rational, it happens.
In the Dust Lands trilogy, there's a vast range to choose from.
And so this week's poll (the first in what we hope to be a weekly event and post) is based around characters. Quite simply - who's your favourite?
Leave comments with your reasons and maybe even your least favourite!
The poll will close on Sunday 31st March and a post will be written up on that character by a fan! If you'd like this to be you, just leave a comment or tweet us at: @DustlandsFans !
[polldaddy poll=6995943]
~Ella
Characters Walking The Dustlands
Every time you read a book, there's a certain character that just grabs your attention. You pay more attention to their dialogue, you've got a smile on your face when your read scenes they're present in. You want to pull them out of the page and have them stand next to you just so you can talk to them.
Different things make people connect with varying characters. Perhaps they are relatable or alternatively, so different from you that it's intriguing. Maybe they make you laugh or cry or swoon or so mad that you have to put the book down for a few minutes or else the pages could be showering down around you as you rip them out in rage! Whatever the reason, irrational or rational, it happens.
In the Dust Lands trilogy, there's a vast range to choose from.
And so this week's poll (the first in what we hope to be a weekly event and post) is based around characters. Quite simply - who's your favourite?
Leave comments with your reasons and maybe even your least favourite!
The poll will close on Sunday 31st March and a post will be written up on that character by a fan! If you'd like this to be you, just leave a comment or tweet us at: @DustlandsFans !
[polldaddy poll=6995881]
~Ella
Monday, March 25, 2013
Open Ended Question: How did the Dustlands come to be?
Let me explain.
One huge question I've had since I read the books was, "How did the Dustlands-Saba's world-come to be?"
We know that this story takes place in a time much farther from our own, we're no strangers to post-apocalyptic stories either. But in Saba's story the land has gone dry, completely dry, turning the surface into an almost endless desert, correct?
We also know that we, we as in me and you and everyone that lives in the present day, are referred to as the "Wreckers" in Saba's world.
What did we do that was so bad, that turned our world into the Dustlands? What sort of apocalyptic, straight from a movie catastrophe could have possibly happened that turned the world into what it is here?
Please click leave a reply above and leave your comments telling us what you think could have happened! We'll pick the most intriguing one and make a post about that one! Also, we'll talk to Moira herself and see if we can get an answer out of her. ;) We'll be looking forward to every comment!
One huge question I've had since I read the books was, "How did the Dustlands-Saba's world-come to be?"
We know that this story takes place in a time much farther from our own, we're no strangers to post-apocalyptic stories either. But in Saba's story the land has gone dry, completely dry, turning the surface into an almost endless desert, correct?
We also know that we, we as in me and you and everyone that lives in the present day, are referred to as the "Wreckers" in Saba's world.
What did we do that was so bad, that turned our world into the Dustlands? What sort of apocalyptic, straight from a movie catastrophe could have possibly happened that turned the world into what it is here?
Please click leave a reply above and leave your comments telling us what you think could have happened! We'll pick the most intriguing one and make a post about that one! Also, we'll talk to Moira herself and see if we can get an answer out of her. ;) We'll be looking forward to every comment!
Welcome To The Dustlands!
After scouring tumblr page after twitter account after Facebook group for some kind of fanbase for Blood Red Road and the world of Saba, it somewhat stumped me that there seemed to be nothing.
Why was nobody talking about this staggeringly great book series, and even more importantly – did they want to, just like I did?
Well it wasn’t for lack of love for Saba and her friends (and enemies!) but instead because there was no base. Of course people wanted to interact with other fans – just like all fandoms do.
Jake Vineyard was seemingly feeling the same way and after he tweeted looking for fellow fans to set up a site with, I was eager to get on board. We planned and got in contact with Moira herself...
And thus Dustlands was born.
With this site we aim to discuss Moira’s work, explore characters in-depth, and of course – bring all the latest news surrounding the Dust Lands (book and movie) to you.
Welcome to the Dustlands, we hope you get just as caught up in Saba's storm as we did, and still do!
~Ella
“There can be beauty anywhere. Even here. An if it ain't there, you can make it yerself.”
Why was nobody talking about this staggeringly great book series, and even more importantly – did they want to, just like I did?
Well it wasn’t for lack of love for Saba and her friends (and enemies!) but instead because there was no base. Of course people wanted to interact with other fans – just like all fandoms do.
Jake Vineyard was seemingly feeling the same way and after he tweeted looking for fellow fans to set up a site with, I was eager to get on board. We planned and got in contact with Moira herself...
And thus Dustlands was born.
With this site we aim to discuss Moira’s work, explore characters in-depth, and of course – bring all the latest news surrounding the Dust Lands (book and movie) to you.
Welcome to the Dustlands, we hope you get just as caught up in Saba's storm as we did, and still do!
~Ella
“There can be beauty anywhere. Even here. An if it ain't there, you can make it yerself.”
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