Series: Standalone
Release Date: March 23rd, 2013
This is the story of a nobody who becomes somebody. It is the story of an unlikely friendship, where hope fosters healing and redemption becomes love. But falling in love can be hard when you don’t know who you are. Falling in love with someone who knows exactly who they are and exactly why they can’t love you back might be impossible.
• Native American biracial main character
• Hispanic side characters
• Drug addicted parent
• Allusion to molestation (flashback)
• Abandonment
• Teen pregnancy
– The Hero kisses the Heroine and is in love with her while dating the OW (so the Heroine is kind of the ‘other woman’)
• Does have OW drama
– The Hero has a childhood friend who he’s in a physical relationship with–the Heroine sees them kissing and believes they are a couple
• No OM
– The Heroine sleeps with OM but the sex isn’t detailed
• Does have the Hero and Heroine pushing away
• Does not have a separation between the Hero and Heroine
• See Ending for HEA status.
• See Possible Triggers for Abuse and OTT sad parts.
Rating: 4.5/5 stars
Children are born into situations that mould them as people. Parents are their role models until they’re old enough to be able to compare and contrast their parents’ actions against other adults.
In A Different Blue, we’re introduced to Blue who’s been so beat down in life that she’s never let down her guard since she lost the only person she thought cared for her. She lives behind this façade of not caring about anything. But when she walks into her first class in her senior year, she’s challenged for the first time to push herself outside her comfort zone and discover who she truly is. And it just so happens that the only person that truly gets her is her totally handsome, and totally off-limits European History teacher.
What I loved most about A Different Blue was how focused it was on Blue and not on anything else. Even the sub-plot was about how Blue became this way, with chapters from her past. It was interesting and terribly sad.
The overall pace of the book was quite slow, but it made it so realistic as Blue slowly started to open herself up to being her true self.
I also loved Wilson and his family!
Since both Blue and Wilson were in other relationships throughout the main part of the book, it allowed both Blue and Wilson to create a deep friendship. It also allowed Blue to rely on someone without expecting all those strings that came with a physical relationship. And this is something that Blue has never really been familiar with.
A really interesting aspect of this book was the touches of history, with people like Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc, which allowed the author to connect and contrast different aspects of each historical figure’s life to Blue’s. This made it super cool, since you learned interesting parts of history while reading A Different Blue.
The only part of the book where I got really annoyed was towards the end, where Blue and Wilson were experiencing a shift in their relationship. I felt like Wilson was so freaking judgemental. And it was weird reading it, because he was so sympathetic and caring throughout the whole book that this didn’t even feel like him.
But besides this, the book was awesome, and a moving book to read!
I just wish there was more romance than there was but the book was still incredible.
