Ivy
Ivy, the youngest in a family of thieves, con artists, and roustabouts, seems destined for an unhappy fate—until she and her brother are plucked from their surroundings by a charitable benefactor and sent to school. From the scams of the slums, where Ivy develops an unfortunate taste for...
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Ivy, the youngest in a family of thieves, con artists, and roustabouts, seems destined for an unhappy fate—until she and her brother are plucked from their surroundings by a charitable benefactor and sent to school. From the scams of the slums, where Ivy develops an unfortunate taste for laudanum, to the gardens of the most talented artists of the age, where Ivy’s striking hair and incandescent eyes propel her into a career as a model, Ivy is a story of nineteenth-century sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781416925071 (1416925074)
Publish date: July 21st 2009
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Ivy (#1)
Into a life of poverty and orphanage Ivy was born and this is a story of her adventures until, and after, she became an Artist's model for some pre-raphelite painters. Interesting, particularly when it came to her perception of things going on around her.
This was a strange book, first why would a staving, orphan girl become a vegetation? It doesn't make sense. Also a lot of the characters felt fake and had no redeeming factors. The story just didn't work for me even if I enjoyed how it ended. So not my type of book but may work for others.
Doesn’t the synopsis sound divine? I thought so too. I checked this book out from the library because the synopsis coupled with the cover won me over. There’s an ethereal sense about the girl on the cover, perhaps the curve of her cheeks that whispers of vulnerability and I’m going to wax poetic unt...
I was so deeply disappointed.This book was boring, boring, boring, boring, and BOOOOOOORING.I don't know how anyone could have read every single word of this book because I skipped about half or so of this book due to the utter boredom.I was expecting more to be honest after I had read the summary.I...
I really enjoyed this one! It's very "Charles Dickenish" and set in one of my favorite periods (Victorian England.) The story begins with Ivy as a young girl and we follow her into adulthood as she gets into and out of trouble, meeting a cast of fun and quirky characters along the way. The only crit...
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