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Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author), Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author), Kat Richardson (Goodreads Author), Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author), Tim Lebbon (Goodreads Author), Cherie Priest (Goodreads Author)
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Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being
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What an amazing collaboration of some of my favorite authors! How did all these imaginations come together to compile such an original urban fantasy tale.
I say urban fantasy and the retailer's buy links say anthology, mystery, suspense and thriller. I think all of those work except anthology, this is a collaboration but it is one singular story and not a collection of literary works as I assumed the term anthology implied. Now you see my excitement and surprise on how masterfully it was put tog ...more
I say urban fantasy and the retailer's buy links say anthology, mystery, suspense and thriller. I think all of those work except anthology, this is a collaboration but it is one singular story and not a collection of literary works as I assumed the term anthology implied. Now you see my excitement and surprise on how masterfully it was put tog ...more
By day Nora Hesper is a jounalist following the story of missing children that have turned up murdered in the community. By night however Nora becomes Indigo, a brutal vigilante that is taking on the murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos responsible for the children's deaths.
Indigo has a darkness about her slipping from one shadow to another and forging the darkness into weapons to help her in her missions. Nora has memories of her parents deaths and traveling afterwords where s ...more
Indigo has a darkness about her slipping from one shadow to another and forging the darkness into weapons to help her in her missions. Nora has memories of her parents deaths and traveling afterwords where s ...more
DNF: Stopped at 50%/ Not rating
You would think with an all star writing cast like this, that this book would be amazing. Sadly, trying to read a book written by numerous authors ended up being a disjointed messy read.
At first, I was intrigued and drawn into the story. The book starts with Nora, an average, investigative reporter who lives in a run down apartment with three cats she claims to hate. Nora is in the middle of investigating a rash of child murders. Then the reader is clued into Nora ...more
You would think with an all star writing cast like this, that this book would be amazing. Sadly, trying to read a book written by numerous authors ended up being a disjointed messy read.
At first, I was intrigued and drawn into the story. The book starts with Nora, an average, investigative reporter who lives in a run down apartment with three cats she claims to hate. Nora is in the middle of investigating a rash of child murders. Then the reader is clued into Nora ...more
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I was excited to read this book that was written by so many authors I liked. Sadly it didn't work for me. I sort of liked Nora at first. Her going around town and trying to find out who was killing kids was interesting, as was her talking about her demon cats. What didn't work for me was how Nora seemed to have a second identity, Indigo. I could deal with that, but after Nora was Indigo she seemed to feel guilty, that was odd for me. As was how Nora couldn't remember her own past. After a while
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Too many cooks spoil the broth, and too many authors shatter a storyline. I really wanted to like this book - Charlaine Harris is my girl - but it's going in my DNF pile at 65%. This is a collaboration of ten writers (ten!!) and every one of them has written about twelve pages of fight scenes. Seriously, it seems like every chapter starts with a fight scene, followed by another fight scene, followed by an internal fight scene with the demon, followed by a small progression in the plot. When the
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Disappointing crap. Characters I don't care about swearing and endlessly fighting.
Nora Hesper is an investigative reporter with a secret life. At night she turns into Indigo who can use shadows to disappear and to travel from place to place. She uses her talents to track down the Children of Phonos who are sacrificing children to bring back an ancient murder god.
Nora is an interesting character whose past sounds like it came right out of the stories in superhero comic books. As events unfold, it becomes more an more apparent to Nora that the past she remembers isn't the past ...more
Nora is an interesting character whose past sounds like it came right out of the stories in superhero comic books. As events unfold, it becomes more an more apparent to Nora that the past she remembers isn't the past ...more
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One tends to think of writers as solitary artists, constructing their stories in their imaginations and then laying them down on the page. Novels are the product of a singular vision.
Except when they aren’t.
The new book “Indigo” (St. Martin’s Press, $27.99) isn’t the product of just one writer. Nor of two or three. All told, there are 10 listed authors here – Kelly Armstrong, Christopher Golden, Charlaine Harris, Tim Lebbon, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuir ...more
One tends to think of writers as solitary artists, constructing their stories in their imaginations and then laying them down on the page. Novels are the product of a singular vision.
Except when they aren’t.
The new book “Indigo” (St. Martin’s Press, $27.99) isn’t the product of just one writer. Nor of two or three. All told, there are 10 listed authors here – Kelly Armstrong, Christopher Golden, Charlaine Harris, Tim Lebbon, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuir ...more
Maybe 1.5 stars? The only thing I liked about this book was the premise, which is very disappointing since I really enjoy three of the authors, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, and Jonathan Maberry. But this novel was a mess, and I can only assume it's because of the amount of authors. For one thing we have literally no time to understand Nora's life, personal or as the vigilante Indigo, before she starts questioning what is and isn't real which gives readers no frame of reference to decide f
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Couldn't put it down!
Indigo: A Novel Hardcover – June 20, 2017
by Charlaine Harris (Author), Christopher Golden (Author), Jonathan Maberry (Author), Kelley Armstrong (Author), Kat Richardson (Author), Seanan McGuire (Author), Tim Lebbon (Author), Cherie Priest (Author), James A. Moore (Author), Mark Morris (Author), Eva Diaz(Illustrator)
This was not an anthology, but an excellent thriller and urban fantasy. You would never know that it was written by different authors. It flowed smoothly, from one action packed scene ...more
by Charlaine Harris (Author), Christopher Golden (Author), Jonathan Maberry (Author), Kelley Armstrong (Author), Kat Richardson (Author), Seanan McGuire (Author), Tim Lebbon (Author), Cherie Priest (Author), James A. Moore (Author), Mark Morris (Author), Eva Diaz(Illustrator)
This was not an anthology, but an excellent thriller and urban fantasy. You would never know that it was written by different authors. It flowed smoothly, from one action packed scene ...more
I looked forward to this book. I've read other 'concepts' with multiple authors, and I've read almost everything C. Harris has written. I got half way through the book and gave up. I very seldom have ever done that! There is no explanation of exactly how the book is supposed to be constructed, but after about 5 chapters I 'think' I saw a pattern. I could be wrong... But is seems as if one author started the book and handed it to the next, who wrote a chapter and handed it to the next. The 'flavo
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INDIGO BY A MULTITUDE OF AUTHORS: I never really believed that so many authors could invent and mold such a kick ass character as Nora Hesper/INDIGO !
Investigative reporter Nora Hesper is not your typical reporter. During the night she is Indigo, a person that can shape and draw the darkness to help her in her quest to find out where the killers of children all over the city are and dispose of them. Nora, during the daytime is investigating the killing of children. She knows who is doing it & ...more
Investigative reporter Nora Hesper is not your typical reporter. During the night she is Indigo, a person that can shape and draw the darkness to help her in her quest to find out where the killers of children all over the city are and dispose of them. Nora, during the daytime is investigating the killing of children. She knows who is doing it & ...more
I knew when I saw the concept of all these authors writing a story it would be a good thing. I thought that each author would take a chapter or it would be a number of adventures starting and stopping with one character but I was wrong. This is a flowing story with some great characters with no interuption from one author taking over for another. Indigo is a woman that can draw power from the shadows and uses it to thwart crime. She is inhabited by a murderous god who shares her body because of
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First in the Indigo urban fantasy series set in New York City and revolving around a nocturnal vigilante powered by shadow.
My Take
With a roster of authors of this caliber, Indigo doesn’t disappoint, and they introduce the story conflict almost immediately. It’s one that has me on the fence, tilting back and forth between don’t use it and use it and my need to know so much more about Nora’s past.
It’s a case of betrayal, I should say betrayals as there are so many of them, and such personal epiph ...more
My Take
With a roster of authors of this caliber, Indigo doesn’t disappoint, and they introduce the story conflict almost immediately. It’s one that has me on the fence, tilting back and forth between don’t use it and use it and my need to know so much more about Nora’s past.
It’s a case of betrayal, I should say betrayals as there are so many of them, and such personal epiph ...more
Anyone who reads my reviews would know that I love both Kelley Armstrong's and Christopher Golden's work. That being said, these are very different authors as are the other eight authors that joined on to create Indigo, a novel project. I understood going in that I was reading what amounted to a writing experiment, but being an author myself, I was interested in seeing how it turned out.
The answer was, pretty damn good, but not perfect. Indigo is the story of an investigative reporter, Nora Hes ...more
The answer was, pretty damn good, but not perfect. Indigo is the story of an investigative reporter, Nora Hes ...more
This is a case where I'd recommend not putting too much stock in my star rating, because I'm just not sure how exactly to rate it. I think that this was a case of the wrong book for the wrong reader. I'm not a huge fantasy reader, but I love Charlaine Harris and thought that the multi-author set up of this book was interesting and wanted to read it (I haven't read anything by any of the authors, though I have books by several of them on my shelves waiting to be read). I found the first half or s
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A professional round robin, Indigo use the talents of many best selling offers to tell a supernatural story.
Nora Hesper is an investigative reporter with a secret: she battles justice nightly as Indigo, a dark alter that uses the power of shadows. As Nora/Indigo goes up against a cult who kill children, Nora must learn her true history and the real meaning of Indigo.
My biggest complain about the book is that is that their is not a consistent voice. Each other adds different language and manneris ...more
Nora Hesper is an investigative reporter with a secret: she battles justice nightly as Indigo, a dark alter that uses the power of shadows. As Nora/Indigo goes up against a cult who kill children, Nora must learn her true history and the real meaning of Indigo.
My biggest complain about the book is that is that their is not a consistent voice. Each other adds different language and manneris ...more
This is a pretty good book. It's a collaboration of 10 different authors. It is a novel and not 10 different stories. Nora is a journalist who becomes Indigo when she wants to go after the bad guys. At first it seems a bit like a typical superhero story, but it turns out all the cliché superhero notions are just false memories planted in Nora/Indigo by someone else. The story gets pretty dark at times as she fights demons, child murderers and a cult trying to take over the world. I really enjoye
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DNF 35%
I have read books by many of these authors and enjoyed them. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that Indigo, being a mashup of several authors' styles, reads exactly like that - a mashup. It is an imaginative plot with lots of twists and turns the reader doesn't see coming probably due to unexpected input by various authors. However, some authors are more successful than others, remaining truer to the character's personality and mannerisms set before in prior chapters than others. This makes ...more
I have read books by many of these authors and enjoyed them. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that Indigo, being a mashup of several authors' styles, reads exactly like that - a mashup. It is an imaginative plot with lots of twists and turns the reader doesn't see coming probably due to unexpected input by various authors. However, some authors are more successful than others, remaining truer to the character's personality and mannerisms set before in prior chapters than others. This makes ...more
Take a sacrifice to a murder god gone wrong, add in wrong memories, imaginary friends, shadow powers, and several murderous cults and you get the basics of Indigo. But the basics do not do justice to the story. Nora is a reporter by day, but she is also Indigo, a shadowy figure that hunts the Children of Phonoi who are a cult of child murders that are trying to bring a murder god to this plane. And life is getting more complicated as there are murder nuns on Indigo's trail. Charlaine Harris and
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There was a lot going on with this book. It was written by multiple writers, hence the story had multiple ways of being told. I liked the story though. A girl who has a demon living inside of her that makes her turn into a killer. Awesome! At times I had a hard time following the story. There was so much action and things going on. It was like a new story every chapter. With that being said, I was involved in the story the whole time and enjoyed the read.
Received an advance reader copy in excha ...more
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I kind of sort of read this hook...read through about the first 100 pages, and found myself getting bored and skimming whole pages at a time. I finally just skipped to the end and read the last 30 pages or so and called it a day. I'm not sure this is the fault of the book...it really wasn't the kind of fiction that captures me. I like some of the authors' work, but their "voice" didn't really come through in Indigo, perhaps because there were so many authors involved in it's production. YMMV.
This works as a novelty, at best. When I started it, I was really in the mood for an urban fantasy and it was very enjoyable up through the first third. Then, the large number of hands on deck started bogging it down. And down. And down. For something like this to work (given how different the tone and voice was from chapter to chapter, it seems to have been a round robin done one chapter at a time), it needed a very strong, guiding hand to keep track of internal inconsistencies. Instead, I had
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The story itself wasn't bad, but I really had a hard time getting into the read. I think it was the writing style dissonance that kept taking me out of the narrative.
Several of these authors are personal favorites, which means I recognize their writing style. Since I kept being 'jolted' by those personal styles popping up throughout, I wasn't able to sink into the story enough to care about the characters.
Overall, the premise is one that I should have enjoyed, but the jumbled writing styles prov ...more
Several of these authors are personal favorites, which means I recognize their writing style. Since I kept being 'jolted' by those personal styles popping up throughout, I wasn't able to sink into the story enough to care about the characters.
Overall, the premise is one that I should have enjoyed, but the jumbled writing styles prov ...more
So many good authors in one place doesn't make for a perfect read. I liked the story, I liked the characters (there are so many of them), and I liked that I the book moved along. There are some slow spots, there are some places where I just had to stop and *blink* and make sure I read what I read. I think what is holding back this story is that there are so many parts moving at the same time! You really have to go in with an open mind, because it's not anything you've read before all in one plac
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Indigo is a quirky collaboration by ten of the best authors out there. Action, adventure, and mystery will keep you enthralled as Investigative reporter Nora Hesper discovers herself and her past. There are some violent scenes and some emotionally painful scenes but the story is strong and keeps you wanting to know what happens next.
This book draws you in. I couldn't put it down. Indigo is a fascinating character, one who I hope we'll see more of. After all, there are several unanswered questions.... It was written collectively by some of the best and brightest in the horror/fantasy world. Well done, all.
really had to make myself finish this book! It was awful; why did these authors even bother? Terrible story line, terrible uninteresting characters ------ just TERRIBLE Book! A comic book would even be better. so sad!
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Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Now she lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, her three children, three dogs, and a duck. The duck stays outside.
Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was wr ...more
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