Indigo is the daughter of two enhanced humans who were virally optimised in experiments over 30 years before. She is 17, immortal and will
not age after her 18th birthday. She can talk to others like her with her mind and also has the ability to ‘shift’ – which means leaving her body behind and becoming any creature she wants, anywhere she wants. Soaring in the sky as an eagle or leaping through the ocean as a dolphin, anything is possible, but her favourite is a large moth.
She is not the only ‘Offspring’ to first generation optimised parents. Her friend Rigel has the same abilities, but their parents and the organisation that looks after them and their kind don’t really know what they might be able to do yet. Different abilities bloom in different children.
Like most teenagers, all ‘Offspring’ have rules. Don’t take drugs, be careful with alcohol etc, but they also have extra rules that they must abide by.
Two of these rules are:
Never shift where a member of the public can see you.
No time-travelling – ever.
Indigo is bored. Indigo likes to party. Surely she can’t do any damage just dancing? She shifts to an earlier time in the city of London and makes new friends who she parties with in the clubs. And then she meets Billy…
Billy is older. Billy is rich. Billy is gorgeous. She cannot get Billy out of her mind and shifts constantly to be with him. Her mother is mad at her for lying in bed all day ‘shifting’ to who knows where! But Indigo knows she cannot tell her the truth – especially that she should be asking the question – who knows when.
And then suddenly it isn’t just her mind with Billy. She wakes up somewhere strange, stark and frightening. Where is she? What has Billy done?
After reading the Black Spiral Trilogy, I have a heads up to some of the characters, but I don’t think it’s essential to read that first to enjoy this new series – Eternity Loop. There is a list of characters in the front of the book, explaining their family connections and also the organisation Black Spiral who they are all connected to, which helps with who is who.
Eileen Merriman’s writing always seems so effortless, and is always engaging. Indigo Moon is told in two points of view, with her friend Rigel discovering his own enhanced traits as he searches for her across the world.
The imaginative is blended brilliantly with the dystopian and a possible future for humankind. Our world is struck by viruses that threaten human existence, and the unethical will do anything to benefit.
Great read!
Author – Eileen Merriman
Age – 15+
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(2022, Penguin NZ, New Zealand, Aotearoa, Future, Time-Travel, Friendships, Loyalty, Loss, Grief, Revenge, Betrayal, Action, Romance, Family, Love, Courage, Animals)