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Violence
A lot
Cage fighting, desert survival violence, and deaths of characters; some scenes are intense
Language
Some
Moderate language; the dialect voice is distinctive
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content; a romantic relationship develops
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological cost of surviving a world designed to break you; the weight of responsibility for your twin
What this book is about
Saba lives in a post-apocalyptic dust world where her twin Lugh has been taken by mysterious cloaked riders. She sets off across the wasteland to rescue him, encountering cage-fighting, a gang of girls, and a revolution. Moira Young's YA dystopian debut is told in dialect and is violent, propulsive, and unusually dark for its genre.
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Cage fighting violence and deaths throughout
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