Enchanted Ivy
What Lily Carter wants most in the world is to attend Princeton University just like her grandfather. When she finally visits the campus, Grandpa surprises her: She has been selected to take the top-secret Legacy Test. Passing means automatic acceptance to Princeton. Sweet!Lily's test is to find...
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What Lily Carter wants most in the world is to attend Princeton University just like her grandfather. When she finally visits the campus, Grandpa surprises her: She has been selected to take the top-secret Legacy Test. Passing means automatic acceptance to Princeton. Sweet!Lily's test is to find the Ivy Key. But what is she looking for? Where does she start? As she searches, Lily is joined by Tye, a cute college boy with orange and black hair who says he's her guard. That's weird. But things get seriously strange when a gargoyle talks to her. He tells her that there are two Princetons—the ordinary one and a magical one—and the Key opens the gate between them. But there are more secrets that surround Lily. Worse secrets.When Lily enters the magical Princeton, she uncovers old betrayals and new dangers, and a chance at her dream becomes a fight for her life. Soon Lily is caught in a power struggle between two worlds, with her family at its center. In a place where Knights slay monsters, boys are were-tigers, and dragons might be out for blood, Lily will need all of her ingenuity and courage—and a little magic—to unite the worlds and unlock the secrets of her past and her future.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781416986454 (1416986456)
ASIN: 1416986456
Publish date: 2010-10-12
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
As some of you may know I'm a huge Sarah Beth Durst fan. If I every met her I think my voice would raise through octaves and the only people that could understand are animated chipmunks in brightly colored jackets. That being said, I was a little non-plussed about Enchanted Ivy. The book starts off ...
This is really 2.75 stars. The romance is thin, most of the characters are cardboard cutouts, and the story is peppered with convenient little bows to wrap up pesky conflicts. And yet, there are flashes of genuine wit and humor, and for me, that was enough to push this above mediocre 2-star territor...
Lily Carter has always wanted to go to Princeton University. As a high school junior she gets a chance to visit the campus and her life completely changes when she meets were-tiger Tye. I read this in one sitting (while on jury duty) and it totally grabbed me from the first page and held me engross...
Lily attends a reunion weekend at Princeton with her grandfather and mother and takes part in an unusual entrance exam which includes gargoyles, dragons, and dryads. She learns a lot about her past and about the magical world as she tries to prevent a war (and gain admission to Princeton). Magical a...