In many ways, Harmon gives the kind of back story that Shaw’s Pygmalion might have had if Shaw had been writing a novel.īlue’s fear of being abandoned is based on devastating losses, some of which are revealed at the very end and all of which provoke profound empathy from the reader. The romantic plot is carried along without feeling contrived because Harmon is a master (mistress?) of romantic tension, so this book satisfies that need in her readers, but Harmon’s strength is the believability of her characters’ emotional development.
So Amy Harmon’s A Different Blue ends where it should romantically, but Blue Echohawk’s journey to love escapes the simplistic clichés that make men roll their eyes or women sigh with smug satisfaction before returning to the real world where men are all jerks. It would feel a betrayal of the reader’s commitment to the journey through the book if the romantic leads did not end up together.
The romantic outcome of a romantic novel is generally a given.
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