Title: Indigo Awakening
Series: The Hunted #1
Author: Jordan Dane
Release Date: 1st December 2012
My Rating: 2/5
Blurb:
Voices told Lucas Darby
to run. Voices no one else can hear. He's warned his sister not to look
for him, but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish. On her
desperate search, she meets Gabriel Stewart, a runaway with mysterious
powers and far too many secrets. Rayne can't explain her crazy need to
trust the strange yet compelling boy — even though he scares her.
They discover Lucas is running from the Believers, a fanatical church secretly hunting psychic kids — gifted 'Indigo' teens feared to be the next evolution of mankind. Now Rayne's only hope is Gabe, who is haunted by an awakening power — a force darker than either of them imagine. A force that could doom them all.
They discover Lucas is running from the Believers, a fanatical church secretly hunting psychic kids — gifted 'Indigo' teens feared to be the next evolution of mankind. Now Rayne's only hope is Gabe, who is haunted by an awakening power — a force darker than either of them imagine. A force that could doom them all.
In A Nutshell:
Not for me. Too little in some areas, not enough in others.
My Review:
I’m sorry to say that Indigo Awakening really didn’t do it
for me. There are a lot of characters involved and we are shown what is going
on from all of their perspectives, at least nine different points of view. There
were lots of characters to ‘follow’ and I got to the point where I really wasn’t
caring about what was going on. At times, I found the descriptions of what was
happening, what the characters were thinking and their reasons for doing things,
over explained or repeated and I felt these could have been edited down quite a
bit.
In terms of the storyline, the abilities of the Indigo
Children are not really explained. After finishing the book, all I really
understood about them is that they can communicate telepathically with each
other, but I don’t really understand what else it is that they can do.
Gabriel’s abilities were both under-explained and over-explained. When he uses
his abilities, there is lots of detail about what is going on and the process
that leads to the manifestation, but it’s not really clear exactly what it is
he is doing.
While I’m sure there are plenty of people who enjoyed Indigo Awakening (see second opinions below), it wasn’t what I was expecting. I spent most of the novel wanting to skip past the other characters and just focus on the developing relationship between Rayne and Gabriel.
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