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. Julie Hearn, author of The Minister's Daughter and The Sign of the Raven, has created a memorable tale of nineteenth-century England with a character destined to take her place alongside Dickens's Pip and Oliver Twist. And when treachery and jealousy surface in the Eden that is the artist's garden, Ivy must learn to be more than a pretty face if she is to survive. But behind Ivy's angelic looks lurk dark secrets and a troubled past - a past that has given her an unfortunate taste for laudanum.
Oscar is determined to make his mark on the art world, with Ivy as his model and muse. Which makes her the perfect subject for an aspiring painter named Oscar Aretino Frosdick, a member of the pre-Raphaelite school of artists. It's more than beauty - and it draws people toward her. For Ivy has a quality that makes people take notice. But that's only if you look at her but don't see.
The youngest in a family of thieves, scoundrels, and roustabouts, the girl with the flame-colored hair and odd-colored eyes is declared useless by her father from the day she is born.
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