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A review by buriedinbooks
The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe by Hannah Moskowitz
2.0
2.5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️✨
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Thank you to the publishers and Net Galley for giving me a copy of this book! This is my honest review, all views are my own.
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This book is a bit different from what I expected. It’s very much about Andie’s internal struggle, but I don’t feel like she expressed her development that much. There was clearly growth, and I think Andie’s story is wonderful, but I wish there was a different kind of exposition than what was written. It read more like “these are the things happening to Andie and she might make a quip about it or pine over it” than anything else. It was also a bit frustrating to see how her relationship with Ivy worked, and her perception. It somewhat reminds me of the “manic pixie dream girl” trope, but make it lesbians and sex-oriented. Not a huge fan of it...
In terms of characters, I enjoyed a select few. Maybe it was my reading pace, but I felt like some of the side characters melded into each other and it was difficult to keep track of who had which personality. I thought Andie was just pining and not doing anything until around the 70% mark, which felt a bit too slow for me personally. Ivy and Dot were super cute, but I did get annoyed at Ivy a ton because of the aforementioned manic pixie dream girl thing. It just got a bit old after a while.
The plot itself started out very slow because of the exposition, pining, and general conversations going on to build up the relationships. Some of the subplots, like the strip club and the lawyer/Columbia thing, felt either underdeveloped or thrown in, and it didn’t work super well.
I genuinely don’t know how to feel about this book.. I didn’t dislike it so much that it deserves 2 stars, but I didn’t like it enough to be 3 stars. I just didn’t vibe with it enough: 2.5 stars.
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Thank you to the publishers and Net Galley for giving me a copy of this book! This is my honest review, all views are my own.
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This book is a bit different from what I expected. It’s very much about Andie’s internal struggle, but I don’t feel like she expressed her development that much. There was clearly growth, and I think Andie’s story is wonderful, but I wish there was a different kind of exposition than what was written. It read more like “these are the things happening to Andie and she might make a quip about it or pine over it” than anything else. It was also a bit frustrating to see how her relationship with Ivy worked, and her perception. It somewhat reminds me of the “manic pixie dream girl” trope, but make it lesbians and sex-oriented. Not a huge fan of it...
In terms of characters, I enjoyed a select few. Maybe it was my reading pace, but I felt like some of the side characters melded into each other and it was difficult to keep track of who had which personality. I thought Andie was just pining and not doing anything until around the 70% mark, which felt a bit too slow for me personally. Ivy and Dot were super cute, but I did get annoyed at Ivy a ton because of the aforementioned manic pixie dream girl thing. It just got a bit old after a while.
The plot itself started out very slow because of the exposition, pining, and general conversations going on to build up the relationships. Some of the subplots, like the strip club and the lawyer/Columbia thing, felt either underdeveloped or thrown in, and it didn’t work super well.
I genuinely don’t know how to feel about this book.. I didn’t dislike it so much that it deserves 2 stars, but I didn’t like it enough to be 3 stars. I just didn’t vibe with it enough: 2.5 stars.