Cover Review: Blood Red Road

Cover Crazy is a weekly meme hosted by Tawni at The Book Worms where a beautiful cover is featured each week for all of us to admire. I am going to use my Cover Crazy posts as an opportunity to review a book cover I love or review any cover (even the ones I don't love) from a book I've read. This week's Cover Crazy is for:

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

This cover makes me want to read the book. Right off the bat I know that something has gone terribly wrong in the world. The cover looks barren like a wasteland. I want to find out what event happened to cause the world to look like this. I also want to know what the world is like now. How bad is it?

The dust whips around that poor girl as she struggles to walk forward. Her positioning to the right shows me that she has already walked across the distance shown on the cover. Her bent head and the position of her legs tell me that she will continue walking, even if her journey is difficult. I like her already.

The title is epic. I immediately conjure up images of a long and difficult trek filled with violence and hardship. The word "road" in the context of a post-apocalyptic story triggers an instant association with Cormac McCarthy's horrifying (and excellent) adult post-apocalyptic book simply titled The Road. For me, this is a very good association to evoke.

The red in the title font is the perfect touch of color. Red, especially in this context, makes me think of blood and violence. The rest of the cover looks like all of the color has leeched out, which adds to the effect of a world fallen. The combination is terrifying.

What do you think about this cover?
Does it make you want to read the book?
Interested in covers?
Be sure to check out another Cover Crazy post by Gina from My Precious.

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This cover review is posted as part of Simon & Schuster Month hosted by Cialina at Muggle-Born.net! Blood Red Road is published by the Simon & Schuster imprint Margaret K. McElderry.

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