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Loading... Nocturne (original 1989; edition 1990)by Louise Cooper, Robert Gould (Cover artist)
Work InformationNocturne by Louise Cooper (1989)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In the snooze fest that is the Indigo series, this is as far as I got. To give an idea of just how dull this series is, note that I am a completist. I have waded through some truly terrible stuff just to finish a series, or read through the entire lexicon of an author. Yet after Nocturne, I just couldn't care enough about Indigo or her struggles to bother picking up another one of these incredibly dull books about the most inactive main character in fantasy. In this book, Indigo has taken up with a traveling band of performers, but finds that one of the demons she released is sapping color and light from everything. (One wonders what would happen if the demons simply avoided Indigo, she never seems to take any active steps to find them, stumbling across them as they cause her trouble. That seems about par for the course for Indigo's inert nature though). Her telepathic wolf is threatened, as are the members of her adopted circus family, but Indigo can't really seem to be bothered to do much about it until the very end, when she gathers up enough energy to think really hard about her enemy. On the way, Indigo is annoying, petty, childish, and displays a marked lack of graciousness towards those around her. One wonders why the circus family (or anyone else for that matter) would want to be around her, let alone help her out. By dawdling around through most of the book, she places everyone around her in jeopardy, and although (for the first time) she has a minor role in defeating the demon, by this point in the series I'd had enough. A petulant princess watching other people complete her quest to right the wrongs she let loose makes for dullness. This book is only 280 pages long, but felt like it was much longer, and not in a good way. After this one, I gave up. Maybe someday my completist leanings will drive me to read the final four parts of the series, an experience which I anticipate will be like walking through knee deep mud, but that hasn't happened thus far. no reviews | add a review
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Índigo continúa su peregrinar en busca del nuevo demonio que ha de destruir. Ahora, en compañía de una familia de cómicos, los Brabazon, se encamina hacia la ciudad de Bruhome, donde se va a celebrar la fiesta de la cosecha, pero algo maligno flota en el ambiente. A lo largo de su recorrido ven que algunos cultivos están muertos, el paisaje se vuelve cada vez más sombrío y desolado y hacen su aparición unos extraños caminantes de semblante cadavérico y un andar curiosamente rígido, que les da aspecto de sonámbulos o seres en trance. La hija-de-Kalig intuye que todas estas circunstancias tienen relación con su misión, y sus temores se confirman cuando, al llegar a Bruhome, les informan de que las fiestas durarán menos porque una extraña plaga está asolando la región. Muchas personas han caído en una especie de coma, otras han desaparecido y las cosechas se han perdido irremisiblemente. Además, se habla de la existencia de un bosque misterioso que se desplaza de un sitio a otro. Índigo y sus amigos serán también víctimas de ese lugar fantasmagórico y descubren con horror que una especie de crepúsculo perpetuo se ha adueñado de la tierra. Sin embargo, el descubrimiento más aterrador es el de que deben enfrentarse a una especie de de vampiro sin forma que se nutre de la esencia de sus víctimas No library descriptions found. |
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Before long, the family of players are caught up in the encroaching disaster as the eldest daughter falls victim to the sleeping sickness. I won't say any more about the plot not wanting to give away spoilers, but this story sees Indigo bereft of her normal companion and support, and having to rely on people who turn out to be unreliable in at least one case.
Although the story did drag a little bit in places, it was a lot better than the previous books in the series, especially volume 3. The set-up did remind me of a couple of books by other writers: Diana Wynne Jones' Cart and Cwidder for its travelling player characters and Roger Zelazny's Amber series, especially the earlier volumes in the series which deal with the black road, because the black forest and the environment it leads to is rather reminiscent of some of the dimension travelling in those books. But this volume deserves a 4 star rating. I think I will pause my reading of the series for a while on this "high". ( )