A review by kgareis
The Ivies by Alexa Donne

3.0

I feel like this angle has been over-played: the poor girl on a scholarship to the elite boarding school where only the most rich and connected send their progeny so they can ultimately attend an Ivy League school continuing the family legacy, admissions scandals galore, and so on, and oh my god I've gone cross-eyed. Funny thing... I couldn't put it down and read well past my bedtime to finish it in one sitting. Yes the story has been told before, yes it was predictable in some areas, but these characters were so hate-able I read to ensure their demise you know. Didn't even like our lead scholarship Olivia girl that much as her redeeming qualities were nearly non-existent.

Standard plot, tangled mystery, who-did-it back and forth, side investigation because smart kids are too smart to have anybody else solve a murder, and we're done.