Reviews

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

felicitydisco's review

emotional informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Reread for book club. The hero is a bit too alpha for me, but otherwise this was very good and wove in lots of important history.

booalie's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

mjreadings's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

booksrockcal's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I read this book for the Book Cougars read a long and I’m glad it did. It’s a romance set in the years before the Civil War, focusing on Hester who escaped from slavery and is now living in Michigan and working in the Underground Railroad, in the years when being found with an escaped slave was a crime that could send a free black person back to slavery. One night Hester is asked to hide and treat the injuries of an Underground Railroad conductor, Black Daniel. Hester did not imagine that this Black Daniel, whose real name is Galen Vachon, would upend her world as she suddenly finds herself attracted to him and working to uncover who in the group of Underground Railroad supporters has betrayed them. 

thisboricuareader's review against another edition

5.0

This was something, in a good way. I am in fact a black historical romance stan. 

I don't even have words, and this was in fact a long audiobook, but the romance/plot had me not wanting to miss a minute. I wanted to protect and love Hester.

kabrahams's review against another edition

Lead is kinda toxic & story is getting drawn out

babeinlibrary's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

hannahelaine's review

Ok you can deffo tell that this was written in the 90s. There’s some fatphobia ofc but mostly it’s the stalking and inability of a man to accept a woman saying no to him. . BROKE INTO HER HOUSE AND BEDROOM AND WATCHED HER SLEEP IN IT AND LEFT A ROSE NEXT TO HER???
I wish it weren’t this way bc the premise is cool and interesting and I have genuinely learned a lot about the Underground Railroad and abolitionist movement I never heard about in school and it’s a good thing to learn about. But man. The romance in this is treacherous. 

kkenna7's review against another edition

the way i so  deeply despised the mmc in this

carakupferman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0