Ivy and family reluctantly agree, as the money is good, and it could have its benefits. Then one day a young painter, who instantly decides that he must have her as a muse, glimpses her. Everyday she works in order to provide for her still-struggling family, while also fighting her addiction to laudanum. Years later she escapes, fleeing back to her aunt and uncle's house. While running from school her beautiful red hair makes Carroty Kate, a thief who literally steals the clothes off of people's backs, catch sight of her and snatch her up.įorced into becoming a con artist, Ivy is brought into a clan of thieves where every night she is given laudanum in order to suppress the terrible nightmares she faces. Once old enough, she is sent to school, but doesn't even last the whole day.
At a very young age, she is orphaned and forced to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins, who really can't afford to support another child. Books that are somewhat reminiscent of Charles Dickens minus hundred year old wedding cakes and singing orphans make me feel full of joy. Life as an Orphan in Industrial Era England sucks, you will fall into a crowd of seedy people, because damn it that is how it works in books. Yes, yes priorities, what are they? Despite the lack of a heartthrob (heartthrobs make me tear up when they do adorable things), I still got all weepy at the end, because I truly am a glass case of emotion.What, pray tell, did I learn from this book? Well, laudanum is a drug that makes you tired. I definitely used time I should have spent planning lessons reading this book instead. Actually I was quite engaged by her prose. Not one bit.When it comes to prose, yes I can put up with crappy writing if it means action (I did actually like Twilight at first, after all). Ivy is interesting too, she's not at all what I thought she would have been. The characters in this book are quite intriguing, there is Carroty Kate, who is sort of like Fagin in Oliver Twist, and by Oliver Twist, I actually mean the Disney film Oliver And Company. Oh fuck yes.I am a glutton for characters. Oh and did I mention it is set in Industrial-Era England. She was an orphan, then she went to live with some evil relatives, becomes a street criminal, picks up an addiction, and later becomes an artists model. What I got in return was something much better.A quick summary before I begin to cover this book in laurels, Ivy is basically about a girl named Ivy who has been shafted by life. I went into the book expecting some sort of romance, just because there was a woman on the cover. First, there is the gorgeous cover, which actually kind of threw me. Ivy by Julie Hearn was exactly what the doctor prescribed. Sometimes a girl just needs a really good work of historical fiction to ease her hectic life.
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