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A review by orrantw
Indigo by Marina Warner
3.0
Ive been thinking a lot about how I’d like to review books and what the rating means to me. I’d say that I’m a bit stricter when it comes to rating books than a lot of people, so a 3/5 for me is a book that a lot of people might like, but I personally didn’t and also wouldn’t recommend to others.
Indigo is a rewriting of the Tempest that attempts to tackle the problems of post- and neo-colonialism. It’s an interesting rewrite of the characters and their interactions with different colonial environments. The book is highly politicised and takes on various political problems from the dawn of colonialism to the terrorist attacks that happen later on the island that reflect real world events.
Although the idea of the book is fascinating and the prose interesting, I personally don’t like romance, and it was hard to understand the emotional shortcomings of the different relationships that happen. It seems like romance isn’t something the author was interested in, so the characters act with little to no motivation.
Another shortcoming that takes the book from a potential 4 star to 3 star rating is the amount of information packed into the pages. There is very little the author doesn’t attempt to touch on, which ultimately makes every character’s journey feel neglected.
It was an unfortunate mix of structural mistakes that could have potentially made a well-written adaptation of the Tempest.
Indigo is a rewriting of the Tempest that attempts to tackle the problems of post- and neo-colonialism. It’s an interesting rewrite of the characters and their interactions with different colonial environments. The book is highly politicised and takes on various political problems from the dawn of colonialism to the terrorist attacks that happen later on the island that reflect real world events.
Although the idea of the book is fascinating and the prose interesting, I personally don’t like romance, and it was hard to understand the emotional shortcomings of the different relationships that happen. It seems like romance isn’t something the author was interested in, so the characters act with little to no motivation.
Another shortcoming that takes the book from a potential 4 star to 3 star rating is the amount of information packed into the pages. There is very little the author doesn’t attempt to touch on, which ultimately makes every character’s journey feel neglected.
It was an unfortunate mix of structural mistakes that could have potentially made a well-written adaptation of the Tempest.