A review by oashackelford
The Ivies by Alexa Donne

4.0

There is a clique at every school, but no clique is like the Ivies. Five girls all aiming to get into a different school in the Ivy league, and they are willing to play dirty to get what they want. Each girl is supposed to apply to a certain school in the ivy league so that they don't compete against each other to fill the quotas but when Emma applies to Harvard and gets in she steals Ally's spot. Then Emma turns up dead. Ally always said she would do anything to get into Harvard, did she mean it?


I thought that this book was really well executed. I thought the stakes felt high enough for the girls to have a good enough reason to not work with the police and I thought that the twist was really well done. You knew it was coming but it was difficult to work out who the killer was even up until the end. I think that my only critique of the book is that it might be too realistic because ...

Spoiler

the rich girls still get to attend the ivies they applied to and the one kid with no money is the only one who gets screwed in the whole thing. Even the murderers step mom pays for his lawyer even though he tried to kill her daughter. That felt weird. But other than that a very good read.

All in all, a good read and worth your time.