Amy Engel - The Revolution of Ivy

"I don’t let myself dwell on what, and who, I’ve lost. I don’t hope for things that aren’t meant to be mine."

How I got a grip on The Book of Revolution

The Book of Ivy left such a cliffhanger I had to keep strolling on the bumpy ride of Ivy.

Let's pick up the thread...

Ivy has gone through more in one week outside Westfall than during her entire lifetime. The Book of Revolution is a mixture of Hunger Games, Divergent and Romeo&Juliet. Yet it can't be as epic as it should be, I'm afraid. Despite the lack of action and thrill I should have felt, several conceptions pop up, which leave you pondering on in the darkness of the night before you fall into a slumber. Such as you can choose your family regardless of DNA and make your own decisions without allowing someone to force them upon you. And remember not getting married against your will! Oh my! These people are cavemen...

But the universally accepted truth of love conquers all is still in force. Surprise, surprise...same old, same old!

“What are you doing here with me, Bishop?” I ask. “You should be with some other girl. Some girl who makes you happy.”
“I don’t want a girl who makes me happy,” he says. “I want you.”

Bishop is such a cupcake. I gobble him crumb by crumb as he's following Ivy leaving his loving family and convenient home into a dreary waste land. A bit of crazy when you think about it. But I love crazy ;)
That's why he's the perfect book-boyfriend material. *staring dreamily at the wall*

"I don’t really believe in fate or destiny. Or at least I don’t believe that fate can’t be altered. I’m living proof. I altered my own."

I suppose some people believe that checking characters out is the best way to solve problems. But it's not like cutting the rotten part out of the apple so you can eat it because now it's picture perfect. Death is not the best way of making justice in most cases. Though it's the easiest way...

"Because with each other, we were always our better, stronger selves."

Impression post-reading

Slightly disappointed.

Rating

3 out of 5