India Bones and the Indigo Caves

India Muerte #2

by Set Sytes

India Bones was once just an ambitious street kid from Mexico Island, without family, without money, and without experience of the wider world.
Much has changed. Now he is an eager crewmember of the pirate ship the Devil’s Dress, sailing the Caribbean under the captaincy of his skeleton friend Grimmer, seeking adventure, glory, and stolen booty.
But sometimes adventures – those of the riskiest kind – aren’t looked for. When the powerful and unscrupulous merchant king Hong Kong Silver demands the crew seek out the pirate revolutionary Ebon Caesar, they are given little choice but to comply.
Yet Caesar is not in the Caribbean. To find him they must travel to Afrika, a vast land full of all new wonders and dangers. And that’s just the beginning of their troubles, for Caesar has his own dark plans . . .

INDIA BONES AND THE INDIGO CAVES is the second book in the imaginative pirate fantasy series India Bones - the fast-paced and thrilling sequel to India Bones and the Ship of the Dead. Triple the adventure, triple the danger.

Genres: Fantasy

237 pages, ebook

First published August 18, 2019

About the author

Author and purveyor of all things fantastical, dark and weird.

Please don't feed him onions.

Reviews

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the things I really love about a series of books is how we get to see characters that we come to know and love grow, change, and develop through their experiences. I think this is one of the most enjoyable aspects of the characterization in this series; I enjoy watching India become who he is going to be. There's a tangible jump in this book in terms of how he grapples with some moral nuances around the adventure he, and the crew, find themselves on. However, the standout aspect of The Indigo Caves was, for me, the passages in which the crew are travelling through Afrika. In the first book in the series it's clear that evocative prose and world-building is something the author excels at; this is even more obvious here. A luscious account of a world full of familiar, somewhat familiar, and utterly unfamiliar flora and fauna, that leaves the reader in a sort of dreamlike state of wonder.

[Joel Axl · Rating 5 out of 5]

A 5 star pirate fantasy adventure, childish charm with high stakes adventure. A must read for scurvy lovers of flintlocks, cutlasses and the sea!