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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
I instantly fell in love with the Indigo Girl! She is strong and caring. I seriously wanted more and more. I couldn't get enough of this story. I will definitely be adding Natasha Boyd to my top favorite authors. I was sucked into this story and didn't want to let it go when it ended and to learn that it was based on a true story made it that much better.
I didn’t realise Eliza was a real person until I read the author’s note at the end of the book & upon discovering this I found I had enjoyed the book more than I initially realised. Natasha Boyd’s writing was easy to follow & I liked it from the very beginning. I didn’t know anything about America during this time so, as always, I loved learning some history from this novel. I love that Eliza wasn’t portrayed as being stereotypically feminine, as someone with her achievements wouldn’t have possibly fit into her supposed societal role, but she also wasn’t emotionless & unbreakable, which I also really appreciated.
I won’t be writing a full-length review of this book as a lot of the themes revolve around racism & that is not my space to enter, but I do feel the book was written with good intentions & it felt like Boyd was mindful, as well as trying to be “historically accurate”. The story definitely focuses on Eliza Lucas, but it does explore the injustices of the time period the book is set in as well.
⚠️ This book contains slavery, racism, violence, sexism, references to drowning, death, references to rape & an on-page miscarriage ⚠️
I won’t be writing a full-length review of this book as a lot of the themes revolve around racism & that is not my space to enter, but I do feel the book was written with good intentions & it felt like Boyd was mindful, as well as trying to be “historically accurate”. The story definitely focuses on Eliza Lucas, but it does explore the injustices of the time period the book is set in as well.
⚠️ This book contains slavery, racism, violence, sexism, references to drowning, death, references to rape & an on-page miscarriage ⚠️
I loved this story set in colonial South Carolina. I didn’t know much about the south in the early 1700’s and it was interesting to read about life there as well as learn about Eliza Lucas, a strong visionary who led the way in growing indigo in America.
The historical parts of this novel are fascinating - a 16yo girl left in charge of her father's 18th century plantations, striving for a way to keep them afloat while he is recalled to the West Indies.
The fiction and fill-in-the-historical parts of this challenged me, as as much as I want to believe there were people kind to their slaves, historical evidence shows that Eliza's husband and sons believed their slaves to be unequals, which the book underplayed.
The fiction and fill-in-the-historical parts of this challenged me, as as much as I want to believe there were people kind to their slaves, historical evidence shows that Eliza's husband and sons believed their slaves to be unequals, which the book underplayed.
Brilliant and beautifully told! I didn’t realize this was based on a true story until I read the acknowledgments.
I had previously bought this audiobook because I was interested in the original process of making indigo. I am also an amateur historian of colonial American history and this fictional account was so true to life and I come to find out how close to non-fiction are many of the elements of this story. I will because of Boyd’s portrayal delve deeper into the very real Lucas and Pinkney families and the history of indigo in South Carolina. It was a given that both the story and Saskia Maarleveld’s performance are 5 star worthy. I can’t believe it took me as long as it did to start The Indigo Girl. It even had the suspense of a murder mystery as to whether and how Eliza would crack the process of indigo dye-making. Superlatives don’t do justice to how good this book is.
This book was so good. Everything that I wanted to happen did.
Eliza Lucas is just 16 years when her father places her in charge of his 3 plantations in South Carolina. This is set in 1739 so the plantations have slaves and South Carolina is still a colony of England. Eliza is a strong willed young woman who is thrilled at the prospect to run her father's business and prove that she doesn't need to get married. She soon decides to attempt an Indigo crop, which according to the book was not successful by anyone else. The rest of the story is about her issues as a female trying to accomplish this.
I enjoyed the main character and the story. I also liked that this was set in colonial America because I haven't read many books set in this time period.
Eliza Lucas is just 16 years when her father places her in charge of his 3 plantations in South Carolina. This is set in 1739 so the plantations have slaves and South Carolina is still a colony of England. Eliza is a strong willed young woman who is thrilled at the prospect to run her father's business and prove that she doesn't need to get married. She soon decides to attempt an Indigo crop, which according to the book was not successful by anyone else. The rest of the story is about her issues as a female trying to accomplish this.
I enjoyed the main character and the story. I also liked that this was set in colonial America because I haven't read many books set in this time period.
I really enjoyed this historical fiction! I know very little of this time period in America and enjoyed learning about the people and culture of the time.