The Ivy: Secrets
By Lauren Kunze and Rina Onur
4/5
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About this ebook
Reputation, Reputation, Reputation.
You're a student at the most prestigious university in the country, and you've been tapped for the most elite social club. You've made it!
Now Don't Blow It!
Callie Andrews triumphed during her first semester at Harvard: she made incomparable friends, found the perfect boyfriend, and received invitations to the most exclusive secret societies. But she may have ruined every-thing with one ill-fated night. Now she's keeping secrets from everyone, including—
Clint
the upperclassman who's too good to be true
Vanessa
the best friend turned backstabber
Gregory
the guy who's a total(ly hot) mistake
and Lexi
the social queen who wants to bring Callie down.
But Callie didn't get into Harvard by giving up, and she isn't about to now. Besides, she's not the only one with something to hide. . . .
Lauren Kunze
Lauren Kunze and Rina Onur were roommates and best friends for all four years at Harvard. They graduated in 2008. They started collaborating on this book when they were juniors. They refuse to say how much of it is true.
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The Ivy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Ivy: Secrets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy: Rivals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy: Scandal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
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Reviews for The Ivy
20 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A little drawn out in some areas that the book got pretty annoying at times. Especially with the unbelievable drama between Callie & Vanessa. This book wasn't as good as the first, they romance was nonexistant.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm thinking somewhere around 3.5.
Let me start by saying, this series should have wrapped up with 2 books. NO reason whatsoever to drag it to 3, not to mention four books.
I like the flow, I like the characters, even though 70% of the time they ALL piss me the hell off. And I like the story, in general.
What pisses me off are a few things:
1) When there's a comedy of errors, it's cute and fun and funny. It helps induce angst and normally helps the story progress. But there's a limit to the number of errors and the ridiculous sequence of those errors.
2) The "articles" at the beginning of every chapter - *yawn*
3) Callie Andrews is a world class idiot and her "secret" was the dumbest ever. That's not something to ruin her life. She's not a fucking celebrity. Who gives a shit if she was video taped having sex in high school. She made it an issue just be her actions and reactions.
If it weren't for the 3 above points, this story would have received a 5 star rating for being a nicely written, cool idea, and fun story to read.
Onto book 3. Sigh. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5SECRETS, by Lauren Kunze with Rina Onur, is the highly anticipated sequel to The Ivy. This book added more drama and fist-clenching tension than the first (if you can believe them).At this point Callie is under Lexi's pretty little manicured finger after she found out about Callie's secret, Vanessa isn't speaking to Callie, and Callie's man-situation is all over the place. Kunze and Onur really know how to keep a reader glued to the pages! Each chapter dug Callie deeper into a hole I had no idea how she would ever get out of the semester alive.I am a total Callie-Gregory shipper so I was cheering for them the whole time. But miscommunication and murky third-party conversations threatened to rip apart their fragile and new relationship after what happened at the end of The Ivy.I don't want to ruin too much of the plot but this book is definitely one of my top books this year. It was full of intrigue, scandals, back-stabbing, steamy chemistry and so much more. So for anyone who is a fan of the first book, be sure to get your hands on this one!