A Different Blue

Amy Harmon

2013 • 414 pages

Ratings10

Average rating4.2

Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years old. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school. With no mother, no father, no faith, and no future, Blue Echohawk is a difficult student, to say the least. Tough, hard and overtly sexy, she is the complete opposite of the young British teacher who decides he is up for the challenge and takes the troublemaker under his wing. 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.

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bianca

I keep wishing you had had a better life . . . a different life. But a different life would have made you a different Blue. And that would be the biggest tragedy of all.

September 11, 2015

Whitney

What to say... I am just in aw. This book was very unexpected for me. I've been in a bit of a reading slum lately. Hitting two Star after two start books. So I took the advice of one of the good read reviewers I follow and picked up this book.

Blue was a girl lost.
A girl with no name.
A girl with no past.
Nothing.
Unwanted and thus unlovable.

One day this girl met a man who loved history. He loved learning people's stories. He made this girl look at her life. Made her want to start to change her story.

I really enjoyed this book. I wouldn't classify it as YA but as New Adult. It doesn't have a whirlwind romance. It is real. With all the trappings of Self Doubt, and Consequences.

The story is very well written. Ms. Harmon gave Blue time to grow, to mature, in life and in how she saw love, before the book expands on romance.

This book does not have a teacher seducing a student. Or vice versa. But it does have a teacher reaching out to a troubled student who needed someone. It does not cross the teacher-student line. Blue's age does help readers accept the attraction she feels, but doesn't act on. Nothing happens until later in the story about a year after she graduates. So don't let the hint of a taboo relationship stop you from reading this book.

Female MC: 4/5
Male MC: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Drama Leve: 3/5
Other Characters: 4/5

June 4, 2019

Krista

Before picking up this title, I'd read one of Amy Harmon's books and loved it. But I chose A Different Blue simply to research how she wrote a student/teacher based romance. Wow! While having little interest in anything but this dynamic, she drew me in with her writing. I loved this book. Amy Harmon is a master storyteller.

August 27, 2023