In this second volume of the series, Indigo and her sentient wolf companion Grimya travel north to a region where mining scars the landscape and where a sinister new cult, opposed to the goddess worship which normally prevails in this world, is gathering force. They witness an auto de fe in the town square of a place where they stop for the night and encounter one of the mine overseers who is high in the new cult. Later, they try to help a woman whose husband has been dragged off by the followers of this new 'god', and realise that a substance carried by the worshippers - or in this woman's case, force-fed to her - causes a terrible illness with symptoms that include those of radiation sickness. However, it is more than that, for some of the people are in the process of metamorphosing into inhuman creatures. It becomes clear that the force behind the cult is the first of the demons that Indigo must destroy to complete her quest.

In order to infiltrate the mining area, Indigo and Grimya need the help of a half-crazed priest of the fire manifestation of the goddess, who is also a sorceror and has an affinity with salamanders (fire elementals). Indigo's anger and hatred of the mine overseer whom she met earlier boils over into outright sadism when she has him at her mercy, and it becomes clear that she is not herself but is being influenced by her enemy, Nemesis. This later sorely tests the bond between herself and Grimya.

The book is interesting and the last third or so is a real action tour de force with vivid descriptions leading up to an all out volcanic catastrophe. Grimya is the driving force of quite a lot of the action, which is no bad thing when it keeps the focus away from Indigo. For me, the central character is downright irritating: I like Grimya and didn't mind the fire priest, but Indigo continues to be annoyingly irrational and angry. Even though it is not all her fault this time, she does rather grate on the nerves. So this holds the book back from a higher than 3-star rating for me. ( )

The second book in the Indigo series brings Indigo, formerly Princess Anghara Kaligsdaughter, against the first of the seven demons she must destroy to attone for her transgression. The tower of regret is no more and the seven demons have returned to reek havoc on the world again. The shining being set Indigo on her long journey with tools to aid her but no knowledge of how to destroy her sins. She will learn how tough that is in Inferno. Great read but not as heart breaking as Nemesis was. ( )

Indigo travels to a town that has been taken over by a cult. With the help of Jaskar she needs to defeat the demon Aszareel. I actually like this one better than the first book, more fast paced. ( )

Not a bad follow up to the series opener Nemesis. Book 2 in the Indigo series, finds our heroine Indigo in a mining time transformed by an evil cult. Her job of course is to destroy the demon, one of the many that she released in book 1. Of course by story end, she has done so (or perhaps others have done that for her) and we move on to book 3.

Nothing special about this book. An enjoyable read that doesn't take much time. Does the series standout as one of the greats in the world of fantasy? No, but a decent read nonetheless. On to book 3. ( )

When I bought the first book in the Indigo series, I also bought the next three, figuring that the books looked promising. In retrospect, I was being entirely too optimistic in my assessment (based upon little more than the cover blurbs and a read through of the beginning of Nemesis). Had I read Nemesis first, I wouldn't have bothered to buy any of the other books in this series.

Owning the books, though, I read them out of morbid curiosity, hoping that they would improve. Inferno is, if anything, even duller than Nemesis. Indigo is supposed to confront and fight the demons she released in Nemesis. In Inferno, she finds a mining town afflicted by such a demon, but others do the fighting (and sacrificing) for her. The villain has the villagers mining radioactive metals for no apparent reason, and a virtuous priest of a fire god takes the demon on. For the most part, Indigo is entirely superfluous to the plot.

I'm not sure why Cooper expected anyone to sympathize with Indigo. She is childish, petulant, obnoxious, and entirely inert. Everyone around her does the work of defeating the threats, and she whines and complains her way through the book. An annoying and inactive protagonist makes one wonder why anyone would care about her struggles, and makes the book not just dull, but frustrating to read. ( )