Same Difference

by M.J. Rutter

Declan Andrews, super whizz is failing Math and Fords Academy is not standing for it. He has Thanksgiving to get back on track or lose his space at this prestigious prep school. Dylan Andrews is failing Math, not because he wants to but because he can't do it. His football career is hanging in the balance because he can't maintain his grades, he will have to repeat his senior year. Twin brothers, identical in looks but that's where it ends, they are as different as chalk and cheese. It's not until each of them get to walk in their brother's shoes, that they realize how hard the other brother has had it.

288 pages, Paperback

Published November 28, 2015

Reviews

[Lady Living In Bookland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reviewed on behalf of Ladies Living in Bookland

Same Difference is a story based around 17 year old twin boys. The Andrews twins.
Declan could be described as the twin with the brains. Who attended Fords Academy (for young intelligent students). He is secluded, feels removed from not only life, but his family too. The strain of school starts to tell on him, but we read more about the hell of his time at Fords. Eric being his one and only best friend at Fords, made his life a little easier.
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Deep down he knew he wasn't failing, but maybe this was the beginning, his meltdown and that scared the life out of him....Could he be the first in the family to let them down, to disgrace their name?
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Dylan was the social twin. The popular one who was well known and lived at home with his parents. But will a job, girlfriend, car loans and failing grades despite his desire to win a football scholarship he too feels the strain.
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Dylan still felt crushed by his brothers tears, how can his own flesh and blood felt like this? He never thought all those years of fun making and jokes at his brothers expense had done so much damage.
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What both twins were going to find out, was that neither life was perfect or how they imagined. No one had the perfect life. But the one thing it would do, is give one another a clearer understanding of themselves and their twin...which had long been needed.


I feared for poor Declan. The poor kid who had been packed off, away from home to a special school, with a lot of demands put on him. With various factors all conceding against him, he knew he needed out. But to what detriment?
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Their little harmful plan was spiralling out of control and now both of them had to deal with the fall out.
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A heartwarming story of brothers rediscovering their friendship in the years they had missed. From the girl conversations, to having someone watching your back. But it wasn't all sweetness and light. With some dark moments, Declan does what he thinks is best. He runs back to the e
Seclusion that Fords had given him. A different school. Same idea. But could he let go of his new found relationship with his twin? Did he want to let go of the one girl he had met during his time home?

If nothing else came from the plan the pair had made, they knew one another better than before. They truly had made a bond again that had been missing for so long. But another floundering family relationship was the one between Declan and his dad. W
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Had he really pushed Declan too far? Had all the pressures tipped his seventeen year old son over the edge?
...Why didn't he tell them
How much they meant to him? His boys were his life and yet he barely knew them.
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With christmas approaching and Declan's father worrying about ending up being like his own, he knew he had to change. Realising how much his boys truly meant to him.
This story is heartwarming, funny, dark in places a
But most of all shows the true love and support between brothers. In the few short months the brothers reconnect, they grow beyond measure. Both get a taste for the others life, and while Declan tries to be a little more laid back, Dylan concentrates more on school work! It's all a surprising twist :)