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Title: The Ivy Chronicles
Author: Karen Quinn
Narrator: Lorelei King
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-12-06
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit
Publisher's Summary:
Ivy enters a parent-eat-parent world where the egos are directly proportional to their owners' enormous incomes, peopled by her only-in-Manhattan clients, including:
Critic Reviews:
"The secrets of professional fixers who help wealthy parents get children into America's top kindergartens are about to be revealed." (The Times)
"Hilarious, spirited, and wise. With humour and heart, Karen Quinn brilliantly skewers the insanely competitive world of wealth we love to hate." (Leslie Schnur, author of The Dog Walker)
Members Reviews:
Entertaining but empty.
I'm not quite sure where to begin with reviewing this novel. I enjoyed it, but so much of it bothered me.
The plot of "The Ivy Chronicles" is certainly more unique than that of most chick lit novels, and kept me turning pages until the end. However, i think it might have been easier to follow for the reader if the main character, Ivy, had taken on fewer clients. It got rather difficult to keep track of all seven sets of parents and children, as well as the myriad of other characters in the book. Several pivotal moments of the book hinge on purely coincidental incidents, which, while they are funny and may add some unexpectedness to the story, they make the novel feel unrealistic, and fantastical.
The final few chapters of the novel felt odd, as though the author suddenly remembered that she had a romantic storyline to bring to a close in about 50 pages, which she had greatly neglected throughout the rest of the book. Due to this hurried feeling, the romance factor of the book seemed false, and fell flat.
It's a funny novel, but not nearly as funny as i had hoped. The characters are thinly-drawn, with hardly any depth, so the funny parts of the book also lack depth.
While it was entertaining enough for me to finish, it was not good enough for me to recommend to others. I will still give the author a chance on her next book though, and hope that perhaps she has learned her craft a little better.
Grade: C+
Great read!
What a great book! It was a great way to take my mind off work/home while I was travelling to work on the train each morning and evening.
A Fun Read
This is just a fun and delightful book about people who have money to burn with priorities askew. Put your face up to the window and gape into the world of the super rich who spend scads of cash on kindergarten admissions and the misadventures of the woman who helps them out.
Highly recommended, hilarious, light reading!
Love this! Elegant, light, and very humorous reading. Hilarious satire that would lend itself perfectly for a movie! There should really be a movie based on this! Anyway, I'm thoroughly enjoying this book and I think Karen Quinn needs to write many more books!
Easy read and very funny.
The book was a fast read and I looked forward to what was going to happen next. Unfortunately it probably is not far fetched.
