The Ivies


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Book Title: The ivies

       Author: Alexa Donne

       Genres: YA mystery

       Publisher: Crown

       Publication Date: 25/05/2021

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SYNOPSIS


Everyone knows the Ivies: the most coveted universities in the United States. Far more important are the Ivies. The Ivies at Claflin Academy, that is. Five girls with the same mission: to get into the Ivy League by any means necessary. I would know. I’m one of them. We disrupt class ranks, club leaderships, and academic competitions…among other things. We improve our own odds by decreasing the fortunes of others. Because hyper-elite competitive college admissions is serious business. And in some cases, it’s deadly.

Alexa Donne delivers a nail-biting and timely thriller about teens who will stop at nothing to get into the college of their dreams. Too bad no one told them murder isn’t an extracurricular.

REVIEW

Rating: 3 out of 5.

I went into this books KNOWING that it was going to be a very typical story and it was full of clichés. Still I thought that maybe it was going to have some sort of surprise element but it really did not. 


I kind of disliked the main character at times, I get that she couldn’t go against the ivies but she also couldn’t stand up for herself and she was humiliated and was treated as if her dreams of going to Harvard where not worth it. I also disliked the character of Avery, she was the typical hated character that none of us wants in our lives.

There were also parts where the main character had the heroine complex and tried to solve the mystery by herself and felt super irrealistic and so not sensible like, let the cops do their job you know.

It was kind of disappointing that whenever you would expect a plot twist to happen it did. There wasn’t much character developments which I know it tends to be the case with thrillers but it was a bit too obvious in this one.

Overall I did not enjoyed it as much as I wish I had but I do think It could be a very good option to people who are just starting to read YA thrillers.

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Alexa Donne is the author of Brightly Burning and The Stars We Steal, YA sci-fi romance retellings of classics set in space out now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her next YA, THE IVIES, a thriller set in the world of competitive college admissions, will be out in May 2021 from Crown/Random House. A graduate of Boston University, she works in TV marketing and has done pro bono college admissions mentoring since 2014. A true INFJ, in her “free” time she mentors with WriteGirl, runs the Author Mentor Match program, and manages one of the most popular writing advice channels on YouTube. She lives in Los Angeles with two fluffy ginger cats named after YA literature characters. You can find her in most places @alexadonne.

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