A review by booksrockcal
Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

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.