My content warnings:
- Hospital scenes/hospitalization
- Cheating
My biases:
- Can’t stand overt, blatant, and obvious rudeness
Indigo by Beverly Jenkins
Read: June 17, 2021
Star Rating (of 5): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Content warnings: Slavery, Runaway, Pregnancy 🤰, Familial seperation
Prevalent Tropes: Caregiving/Sick Bed, Enemies to lovers
Tropes I like! 😍
- Caregiving/sick bed
- Fake Dating
- Friends to lovers
- Found family
- Single parent
- Bodyguard
- Marriage of convenience
- Disability rep
- Forced proximity
- Wallflower
- Bookish heroine
- Only 1 bed 🛏
- Teaching 🏫
How it’s used…
Hester is a conductor for the Underground Railroad 🚞 She meets Galen “The Black Daniel” as he escaped north…
The set-up: Hester is a conductor for the underground Railroad… The “Black Daniel” aka Galen helps slaves escape north… What happens when he gets hurt on the job?
Smutty times 😋:
- 15: Hester goes to Galen (hand, mouth, the real thing 🙌🏽)
- 18: Galen homecoming, bathe together, Hester consents to be Galen’s mistress 😂
- 20: Meeting Galen’s family and world 🌎
- 22: Galen learns of his baby on board
3-word Summary: Run for (your) life! 😨
Representation: Black, African American
POV: Hester but 3rd person 🤔
Thoughts 💭:
- The concept of running 🏃♀️ away to save your life
- Being cared for in a precarious position 🤔
- Self-esteem: Lacking or just modest?
Listen With 🎧 Precious 