The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Ivies
AUTHOR: Alexa Donne @alexadonne
Publisher: Crown Publishing @crownpublishing
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1/2
Published: May 25, 2021
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I really love Dark Academia. This book gives me Mean Girl vibes! Thank you to @netgalley and Crown for the opportunity to read this book.
💜 What I liked:
- The web of lies, manipulation, and secrets is deep with this group. The author did a terrific job of introducing the large cast of characters without making you feel lost. You are just as much trying to solve the mystery as Olivia is.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- The reveal came a teeny bit out of the blue, but still made coherent sense regarding motives. I only knocked it a half star for that. Other than that small thing, excellent!
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Olivia is part of the Ivies which also consist of Emma, Margot, Avery, and Sierra. When Emma shows up dead, Olivia tries to figure out who killed her and why, with the help of Ethan.
🚦 The Ending:
- Kind of took it in a way I didn’t expect!
💭 Consider if you like:
- Dark academia
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary:
Enroll in this boarding school thriller about a group of prep school elites who would kill to get into the college of their dreams…literally.
“The Plastics meet the Heathers in this murder mystery about ruthless Ivy League ambition.” -Kirkus Reviews
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.