Thank you Netgalley, Elsie Chapman and the publisher for my ARC of Along the Indigo. 
Marsden lives in a small town called Glory, in America. Her whole life has seen her ostracised from the rest of the town, thanks to her Asian heritage, her father's accidental death which everyone thinks was suicide, her family's ownership of a piece of land called the Covert where people go to die, and the fact her mother is a prostitute at Nina's Boarding House. Marsden is desperate to escape, taking her little sister Wynn with her and making a better life for them both.

Then she meets Jude, also standing on the fringes of society in Glory due to the fact he's mixed race, that his father is a drunk and his older brother killed himself in the covert. Together they unleash secrets which could either tear them apart or bring them closer together. Which will it be?

The story isn't set in any particular year, there's Eddie Murphy films on at the cinema and nobody mentions a cell phone, racism is clearly rife so I'm wanting to say it is set somewhere between the late 70s to mid 90s but I feel that not knowing kind of added to the mystery because there are no preconceptions about how anyone should behave.

The story is really engaging, at first it seems to purely be about Marsden's journey and her attempts to escape the life her selfish mother has laid out for her, but then it becomes about something else; secrets, lies, Kismet and the the threads that connect people to one another.
A wonderful, thought provoking YA novel.

Unfortunately, I just couldn’t get into this one... I kept reading and wondering when the interesting part was going to happen, and it just didn’t come quickly enough.

DNF

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