Released: August 31, 2010
Title: The Ivy
By: Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur
Greenwillow Books
Hardcover; 320 pages
From Good Reads:
Freshman year at Harvard--glamorous parties, blossoming friendships, steamy romances, and scandalous secrets. Skip the campus tour and get right to the good stuff: classes are for scoping guys (and their Facebook profiles), not taking notes. The library is for study dates (the medieval history stacks get a lot of action), not studying. And success is a 4.0 GPA... plus getting into the most exclusive parties. How will Callie--a California girl with brains, beauty, and big dreams--and her three roommates survive?
Get admitted to The Ivy, the first book in a provocative new series about the world of the Ivy League.
Brent’s opinion of the novel:
I love it, I love it. Gossip Girl-esque novels, Ivy League schools, rich daddies, hot Lacrosse players, Russian Literature majors. All the elements of my perfect guilty read! The Ivy was a mix between Sex and the City and Gilmore Girls, so to say I loved it would be the least!
When soccer-player, blonde-beauty Callie arrives at Harvard her freshman year, she doesn’t know what to expect. She certainly doesn’t expect to end things with her long-distance boyfriend, or to fall for four (4!!!) different Harv-boys. Or to form frenemies with gorgeous, intimidating, intelligent girls whose daddies have deemed them with shopping trips to Paris every other weekend, and ponies, and endless mounds of Christian Louboutins. Callie doesn’t know what’s going to come of her first year at Harvard, but she does know that whatever happens is going to be fun, drama-filled, and catty.
The MC, Callie, is one very easy to connect with. I loved her for innocence, and for her daring-ness, as well. For the mix of the two, which made her all the more real and believable. Lauren Kunze and Rina Onur did a great job making the perfect character for this book of college and craziness. Callie wasn’t out-of-control to the point of trashiness, and she wasn’t sweet to the point of being an innocent Christian girl. She was just straight-up!
Even though, by both my review and the synopsis, it seems as though The Ivy is about partying, it’s not. I mean, yeah, there are fun and flirty elements and shiz, but it goes way deeper than that. Everyone has secrets, some more deep than others. Lauren and Rina pulled off writing about a girl, who for the longest time, doesn’t know who she was, where she was going, or who was accompanying her. Who just cared about the now. Which is something we should all do!
I’m so freakin’ ready for college, and reading The Ivy just made me jealous of the people already there. (And omagawd. Is that cover not too, too cute? Don't you love it, though?)
4 comments:
I loved this book too! It's so good and I can't wait for the sequel. Great review! :)
Looking forward to this read, especially since Lauren and Rina are repped by Rosemary Stimola, who just happens to be the best agent ever. ;)
It's been aaaaaages since I read a book set in college. Very cool.
Sounds great! Love the review. You always make me smile Brent. Your comments about the cover are just so fun. :)
Lisa ~ YA Literature Lover
I have this one in my review stack, and after reading this, I'm really excited to read it! Glad you enjoyed it!
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