"Generations old feud put to the test, will love triumph?"
Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted December 4, 2017
Romance Western
Simply so fabulous that it was nearly impossible to put
down. Jodi Thomas meshes two stories in one book. INDIGO
LAKE focuses on a relationship that has no likely way to be
successful based on a history between two families. Jodi
Thomas chooses not to minimize the importance of a
generations-old feud but instead provide a clearer view of
its cause. And because she is such a romantic Thomas is
determined to see if there could be a possible resolution.
The question is; can love heal all wounds? In the story that
travels alongside the main tale, we revisit an old
friendship that somehow splintered with time. Each glorious
separately but together make INDIGO LAKE the very special
book that it truly is. INDIGO LAKE takes us back to Crossroads, Texas and is part
of the Ransom
Canyon series by Jodi Thomas. Indigo Lake is bordered on the shores by two ranches --
neighbors by any standard but not here -- the families
haven't spoken in one hundred years. Quite a long time to
feud. Blade Hamilton was blindsided when he inherited Hamilton
Acres. He never knew his father and here he is on land that
truly didn't look worth very much. But Blade really had
nothing to base his opinion on. Blades world and career took
him all over. Home wasn't a familiar concept and his mother
had been less than nurturing. Blade had never thought about
the fact that he had a father -- until now. Faced with
generations of Hamilton's whose faces adorn the wall of the
house Blade had to admit feelings that were alien. Dakota Davis' first look at Blade Hamilton brought to mind
all the stories passed from generation to generation
concerning the ever-present feud and hostility between the
two families. Jodi Thomas had a lot of fun fashioning these
two amazing characters who were equally quick-witted. We get
to know quite a lot about Dakota and her sister Maria -- two
lovely but impressionable young women who live in today's
world and yet pepper their thoughts and conversation with
quotes from their grandmother who firmly believes in the old
legends. So Dakota is quite firm in her determination not to set foot
on Hamilton soil. Dakota speaks of a curse and yet Blade
begins to see their joined property as almost magical.
Certainly ghostly but he didn't really believe in that --
but yet there was something ethereal about it. Something
that touched him like nothing ever had done before. The ensuing friendship shall we say between Dakota and the
Hamilton as she calls him will definitely tickle your funny
bone. Blade has a way of making Dakota madder than just
about anything and yet he seems to not notice this at all.
Delightful and engaging. A small town like Crossroads
suddenly hot with action, murder, arson and who knows what
else but this is a town that sticks together. Blade never
knew what living in a small town was like until now. And let us not forget revisiting Lauren Brigman, Tim
O'Grady, Lucas Reyes, and Reid Collins. These four
characters will forever be connected through an event that
happened while they were just a bunch of wide-eyed
teenagers. All have very divergent backgrounds and families.
And yet there is an unmistakable unbreakable bond still very
much intact even after much time has passed. They don't all
agree that they consider themselves friends. But as this
story unfolds these four have major roles. Great read first time around and even more fabulous the
second time. Yes, INDIGO LAKE is one to put on your to
re-read shelf but then again most anything by Jodi Thomas
deserves a place there. Jodi Thomas is a master of
connecting the dots and that has never been more evident
than in INDIGO LAKE.
SUMMARY
Two families long divided by an ancient feud. Can a
powerful love finally unite them? Blade Hamilton is the last of his line. He's never even
heard of Crossroads, Texas, until he inherits land there.
Riding in on his vintage Harley-Davidson, Blade finds a
weathered ranch house, an empty prairie and a dark river
that cuts a decisive path between the Hamiltons' land and
that of their estranged neighbors. When Dakota helps a stranger on the roadside, she isn't
prepared for the charisma of the man on the motorbike—or for
the last name he bears: Hamilton, of her family's sworn
enemies, representing all she's been raised to loathe. The
problem is, it looks like Blade is in town to stay, and
there's something about his wolf-gray eyes she just can't
ignore. Lauren Brigman feels adrift. Unhappy in work and unlucky in
love, she knows she ought to be striving for more, but she's
never truly at peace unless she's at home in Crossroads. If
the wider world can't satisfy her, is home truly where her
heart is?
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