Review: Intense and Believable - You'll Be Up All Night!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
I'd become a fan of Dennis Butler's work after reading "Tomorrow No More" so when I picked up Indigo Tears, I was prepared for a wild yet thought provoking ride. This book certainly delivers! Indigo Tears draws you in from page one, setting the stage with a dramatic and terrifying kidnapping, which in turn spirals into a dark, moving, and frankly horrifying tale of human trafficking and sex slavery. The characters are well rendered, three dimensional people who are suffering through unspeakable horrors: dehydration, starvation, and the desecration of their bodies and souls. Our window into this world is Gavin Hawkins, the inventor of a satellite system that can locate people by their DNA signature alone. Through this method, he finds his true love, Amy, a woman who has been abducted and subject to unspeakable abuse in the hands of human traffickers. What ensues shows the power of the individual to mobilize others in the pursuit of higher justice and basic human regard.One thing which this book does incredibly well is show the horrors of the situation without over-explaining them. I've always found this to be a trademark of excellent fiction--the writer illustrates his message frankly and without unnecessary embellishment, thus allowing us to experience the story unfiltered by narrative commentary. Dennis Butler does this brilliantly. The is horrifying without being gory, hopeful without being sentimental, and detailed without being overblown, making Indigo Tears a book you'll keep reading well into the night.I also found the short story at the end to beautifully compliment the main story. This is a book I'll return to again, of that I have no doubt!