A review by isitcake
Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

1.5

Just not for me. I listened to this at 2.5x speed because it just kept going on way longer. There's not much of a story here imo, it's more about the setting and class dynamics with her being a former slave and him being Cajun royalty and how those 2 were completely different societies back then. Both of them are part of the underground railroad, which is how they meet. But the whole book is just him being a former rake and how he can't even believe himself that he wants to marry her, and her thinking this is all a game to him, how he's not serious about her and would tire of her or take a mistress eventually. I also am not a fan of ridiculously naive virgin heroines and ugh this is a bad book for that trope because she is all those things.

He calls her Indigo because she worked dying things and it has permanently stained her hands and feet indigo.