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A review by 2treads
White Ivy by Susie Yang
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
"Lives are like rivers, eventually they go where they must. Not where we want them to go.-" Mae Fung
Yang has written a very interesting narrative with a main character whose situation morphs from familial dysfunction to the glitz of high society mixed with a bit of emotional drama.
It is toxic with abuse and a violence that warps the relationships of these characters.
Ivy had grown up in a frugal household with a fleet fingered grandma and a heavy handed mother and a seemingly detached father, whichbexplains her deep seated yearning to find and have something beautiful that would be hers and hers alone. She finds that in Gideon, the all American rich boy, and nothing could be wrong with him.
Exposed to shoplifting from an early age and then briefly to the life of the elite, Ivy grows up with a deep yearning to have all the riches and lifestyle of the affluent; but giving up old habits prove harder than Ivy counted on or maybe not, and she isn't about to let anything or anyone come between her and her richly ever after.
Yang has written a very interesting narrative with a main character whose situation morphs from familial dysfunction to the glitz of high society mixed with a bit of emotional drama.
It is toxic with abuse and a violence that warps the relationships of these characters.
Ivy had grown up in a frugal household with a fleet fingered grandma and a heavy handed mother and a seemingly detached father, whichbexplains her deep seated yearning to find and have something beautiful that would be hers and hers alone. She finds that in Gideon, the all American rich boy, and nothing could be wrong with him.
Exposed to shoplifting from an early age and then briefly to the life of the elite, Ivy grows up with a deep yearning to have all the riches and lifestyle of the affluent; but giving up old habits prove harder than Ivy counted on or maybe not, and she isn't about to let anything or anyone come between her and her richly ever after.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Murder