A review by ralhassan
Poison Ivy by Amy Goldman Koss

1.0

Honestly, the entire thing was really confusing and ended up going NOWHERE. The synopsis I read on the Barnes & Noble Teen Book Blog made it sound so much more interesting than it is. I was expecting at least some sort of justice or real effort from the prosecutor. Daria's issues were never really explained and it all just left me disappointed and confused. Ivy's attitude towards the entire thing was very rude, I mean I know you didn't exactly want your dirty laundry aired in front of your history class, but your teacher is trying to help you and you just sit there and make no effort to help your lawyer. Ann's POV was extremely obnoxious and irritating, I wanted to punch her through the pages and I am honestly really peeved by the fact that I spent money to read this. Overall, totally not worth the read unless you like being confused and thoroughly disappointed by the end. I also didn't really like the fact that Ms.Gold just kind of let them all run wild. Like the students didn't take the trial seriously at all and I have actually done a mock trial before for my forensics class and we took that thing SERIOUSLY. Like, these girls have bullied the absolute crap out of Ivy for years and you know they did it! You KNOW IT and they know it and yet they get away with it for what reason? I understand why it was written the way it was: to make it more realistic and have some of the student's accounts of what happened but I honestly think it would have been better if it wasn't written like this, for one, and the end had something that didn't make you want to throw the book out a window. Like, the end completely killed the book for me, and I'll be honest, I was in it to finish it and see something really happen and I got to the end and was seriously disappointed. It ends how you're kind of expecting it to, but I was hoping for a twist, but I guess that's just how high school works, you get all excited at the beginning, the middle is a build up to the end and then senior year is just a giant ball of stress, deadlines and disappointment when nothing cool happens.