Title: Indigo Winds Seven Sins and Virtues Series - Kindness Indigo Winds starts with promise. Ashton Sinclair, a wealthy duke's son meets Miss James, the Lady Jamison at a garden party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Hempstead. Set in or around the 17 th century, Indigo Winds is a rollicking pirate romance with buxom wenches, bawdy pirates, a willing virgin and an element of intrigue. The love scenes are erotic and descriptive and it does start with promise. The first chapter is particularly good and draws the reader in. Ashton and the Lady Jamison hit it off famously in chapter two with a very erotic love scene in the garden. However after the first love scene the scenery and setting becomes a painted backdrop to the love/erotic scenes, which is a shame because this book had the potential to be a great read. The plot looks good in theory but falls short in practice and we find ourselves being yanked from England to the Caribbean and from there to the high seas with blinding speed. We get the feeling we are being sent into fast forward until we get to the next love scene. A distraught Lady Jamison is promised in marriage to the cruel, loveless Lord Cree, and it is up to Ashton to save the day and take his pleasure of the voluptuous Jamison at the same time. At times the dialogue slips from authentic old English to modern American sitcom-speak. The characters are well rounded and three dimensional when engaged in loveplay, but in between they are flat and predictable; the plot for Indigo Winds seems to be a mere receptacle for the sexual prowess of Lord Sinclair. The ending tries to surprise us with a clever twist at the end but there was no foreshadowing and as a result, the twist seems to be a mere add on rather part of an ongoing plot/subplot. In all fairness, Indigo Winds works on one level, as a spoof novel, but as a serious read it barely makes the grade, all that saves it are the intensely erotic love scenes. With more attention to the basics of writing, plot and research this book could have been a fantastic read because one gets the feeling that it was all there, but somewhere between pen and paper the author has opted for sloppiness instead of carefully crafted writing. The title announces it is part of the Seven Sins and Virtues Series and perhaps the next book in the series will prove to be a better read. For now however I would give this a rating of one. |
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