randywgravitz 's review for:

The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd

5.0

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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.