Inferno (Indigo, Book 2) [Paperback]

Louise Cooper (Author)

Book Description

Series: Indigo, Book 2 | Publication Date: September 1989

Now known only as Indigo, Princess Anghara is doomed to wander, searching for the demons she released from the Tower of Regrets. But plagued by Nemesis, Indigo must defeat the demons within herself before conquering anything else.

Product Details

• Paperback: 276 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books (September 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812502469
• ISBN-13: 978-0812502466
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,202,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beauty in the Grotesque, February 22, 2000

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P. Ortman (Midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inferno (Indigo, Book 2) (Paperback)

An original plot. Louise really has so many elements in her novels, despite the fact they aren't terribly long. It is easy to over look them. Her look at the pressure to conform in society, fear of man and the unknown, the effects of religious fanatacism, and how subjectivity can obscure reality. In Inferno, Indigo finds a religious group falling apart, literally, from the effects of their new found deity, Charchad. This is perhaps the most physical demon Indigo faces. The story's resolution is on par for Louise Cooper, where this book gets outstanding is the powerful, and nearly overwhelming imagery she creates. As one reviewer noted you can almost feel the heat, the nacreous glow of decay that the Charchad emminates you can so easily envision. You can feel the community decaying as you read. A strong first challenge for Indigo and it really grabs a hold of you. Plus even though you can feel the evil of the Demon Cooper doesn't create a derivative demon at all. It isn't growly and melodramatic, it feels alien and perhaps even insane, but evil nonetheless. Enjoy.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Book two of Indigo series, February 2, 2003

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E. A. Lovitt "starmoth" (Gladwin, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inferno (Indigo, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

"Inferno" finds Princess Anghara/Indigo and her stuttering wolf in a burning realm of torment and terror. A village of copper miners is coerced into joining the cult of Charchad, who turns out to be one of the demons that Anghara/Indigo loosed upon the world in Book One of this series. Anyway, Charchad forces the villagers to mine uranium (we never learn why), and death, radiation poisoning, and really icky mutations make life miserable for all who stumble into his realm. Indigo and Grimya, her talking wolf, join forces with Jasker, a priest of the Fire Goddess Ranaya, in order to destroy the cult of Charchad and the demon, Aszareel.

Indigo spends a large part of "Inferno" trapped in lava flows, torturing a mine overseer (who, admittedly, is slimy, revolting character), and snarling at her allies. I can't figure out why anyone would like her or want to help her, especially the poor wolf.

"Nemesis: Book One of Indigo" was definitely a better read than "Inferno: Book Two of Indigo". I'm still debating whether I should venture into Book Three. I keep hoping Indigo will lose the stuttering wolf and develop a more winning personality, because I really admire Louise Cooper's writing ability. Her "Time Master" trilogy is one of the best reads in Fantasy.
Maybe the "Indigo" series is just not for me. Check out "Inferno" if you must, but Niven & Pournelle's "Inferno" is a far better read (not to mention Dante Alighieri's).

4.0 out of 5 stars Great read, August 15, 2010

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xenofan (Kansas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inferno (Indigo, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

Inferno is book two of Louise Cooper's Indigo series, and it follows on from the events of Nemesis (book one). Although it's probably not absuloubtly essential to read Nemesis before picking this one up (the overal plot is simplistic enough that you could probably pick up on what's going on without having to read the previous book for everything to make sense) I would certainly recommend doing so. Not only is Nemesis an enjoyable read, it also has a lot of development to the characters and the overal plot which you would be missing out on if you attempted to start straight with Inferno.

In Inferno, Indigo's quest to slay the seven demons that she unwittingly unleashed upon the world in Nemesis (book one) takes her to a scorched land polluted by the first amongst her seven demon quarry's evil influence.

This is an enjoyable book. I loved the atmosphere, could almost feel the heat and the ash of the scorched landscape that Indigo must wander in search of the first demon. It's a short book, and sadly, may even be a bit too long already. I was ready for the climax when it came, since I'd begun to find the descriptions of fire and ash a bit repetative.

But the book had me absorbed right until the end. Sure, perhaps it's a bit predictable, but I still really enjoyed reading Cooper's wonderful descriptions; she really captures Indigo's fear and loneliness and grief over her situation and this adds an element of depth to the story which would have left it lacking without.

This series, so far, has not been one of Louise Cooper's stronger works, as it lacks much of the complexity that I've come to love in many of her other titles, but it's an enjoyable read with an atmosphere that's quite haunting.