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Nikolas Pleiadi

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May 2025


Nikolas Pleiadi is a Long Island-born author whose work explores grief, addiction, legacy, and the weight of silence. His debut novel, In Powder Blue, is a gritty, emotionally charged literary crime story set in post-9/11 Levittown — a place where loyalty runs deep, and ghosts never stay buried.

Blending the psychological depth of Mystic River with the raw tension of The Sopranos, Pleiadi writes fiction that feels personal, cinematic, and uncomfortably real. He believes in flawed characters, haunted places, and stories that hit like a fist to the chest.

When he's not writing, he's probably driving too fast down the Wantagh Parkway, lifting heavy things, or building something that hurts a little to talk about.

Visit him at: www.nikolaspleiadi.c
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Average rating: 4.37 · 979 ratings · 104 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
In Powder Blue

4.19 avg rating — 744 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions
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The Car In White: A Prequel...

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En azul polvo

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
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In Puderblau

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En bleu poudre

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In polvere azzurra

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Azul em pó

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The Car In White by Nikolas Pleiadi
"Highly Recommended.

Easy enjoyable reading with reoccurring characters from the authors book “ In Powder Blue”. I read both books in four days."
In Powder Blue by Nikolas Pleiadi
" “Simple and straightforward” is certainly one way to read it. "
The Car In White by Nikolas Pleiadi
"You don't read this book, you EXPERIENCE it!

This story hits different. It is a work of fiction, but it's also very real. Somehow you are able to relate to all of the characters. It's difficult to find a villain. (Unless you have lived a pristine life" Read more of this review »
In Powder Blue by Nikolas Pleiadi
" It’s interesting that you call it “cliché” when a lot of what you’re calling cliché came straight out of my own life and the people I grew up around. ...more "
The Car In White by Nikolas Pleiadi
"Okay I genuinely did not expect The Car in White to hit me the way it did. I already loved In Powder Blue, but this book somehow made me love it even more. It fills in so much without ever feeling like it is just explaining things. It changes how you" Read more of this review »
The Car In White by Nikolas Pleiadi
" So soon? It was almost 700 pages! Hahaha Seriously though, thank you. I’m really glad the length didn’t scare you off. One of the biggest things I wre ...more "
The Car In White by Nikolas Pleiadi
"great book . sad I finished it so soon

This book is excellent and so relatable . Being from queens and now Long Island I identify with the book and characters more than I like to admit . Family dynamic is similar and Italian heritage . Running with t" Read more of this review »
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" This honestly means more to me than I can put into words.

To hear that these characters felt real to you, that you laughed with them, cried with them,
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“You think you’re making choices for yourself, that you’re in control. Every choice you make—makes you, but every move you make— ripples out to the people around you. And sometimes, you don’t realize how bad you’ve fucked it all up until it’s too late.”
Nikolas Pleiadi, In Powder Blue

“But the trick is, you get so good at disappearing, you start to wonder if you’re even there anymore.”
Nikolas Pleiadi, In Powder Blue

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