Preferring Blue - Temple, Rebecca

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Résumé :
The only issues Olivia Ambrosia is entitled to worry about as a girl her age is passing her exams and fussing over boys - but boys were never the problem. After sneaking into a Saints university dorm party with her friends she meets Jamie, an older girl who begins to lift the veil over Olivia's (questionably) burning curiosity, whilst Olivia also finds herself joining a wider group of students: known as the GLBS.As Olivia steadily gains intense feelings for Jamie and grows a stronger feeling of bellonging to the GLBS, she soon discovers that those she once considered 'friends' do more than merely distance themselves from her. But when she finally accepts herself as being gay openly it is not enough to fix the rest of the problems she still faces - and neither is it an invitation to a sanctuary where everyone thinks and feels the same way. Olivia wants to fight for her cause, Jamie is far more reluctant, and in Redwon - just like the rest of the country - being gay is still illegal, no matter how little the police do about it. And when the police continue to do little with regards to the multiple dissapearances - dissapreances of known or suspected homosexuals - over the last year, tensions (and more dissapearances) continue to rise.Irreparable family fueds amongst the difficulties of growing up question how important it is to love yourself compared to how important it is for others to love you back. Olivia's best freind Page perhaps knows the bitterness of this trade off the most, but when one single dissapearance changes everthing there may not be any choice anymore. One single detective, 'Julie Valentine', has been sent from the capital to solve the case and fire the useless Redwon constabulary into action as it is finally accpeted that the dissapearances are really kidnappings. As it further turns out however, there is shockingly more to the sinister kidnappings than just eradicating Redwon's hidden gay community one at a time and when it all comes crashing down on itself Olivia must find a way to simply surivie it all like everyone else. For everyone else, and the entire country, is changing. Love and hate each have thier place: what happned in Redown was certainly not right . . . but by manys eyes neither is being queer....