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The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe
by Hannah Moskowitz
Quick Stats
Age Rating: 15/16+
Overall: 4 stars
Characters: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Setting: 4/5
Writing: 5/5
Chronic Illness Rep: 5/5
TW: drinking, drugs, over dose, grief, trauma, mentions of parent loss, brief mentions of bipolar disorder, mentions of chronic illness
Thank you so much Entangled Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All opinions are my honest thoughts and feelings.
Sick Kids in Love, Hannah Moskowitz’s first book with Entangled Teen, is my favorite book of all time. I have never felt so strongly for a book in my life—and that’s saying something. I actually screamed when I heard back from Entangled that I was approved for the ARC. So, suffice to say, I had high expectations for The Love Song of Ivy K Harlowe.
I found this book hard to get into at first. That might have something to do with the fact that I was expecting YA, and this book fell more into the NA category. A lot of the first half of this book revolved around clubbing, and that’s not something I have any interest in. I found the characters interesting, I liked them all, but I didn’t think Andie and Ivy would be good together, so I got pretty sick of the plot during that first half since it was just Andie pining over Ivy and their group going clubbing. When the book hit about the halfway mark, and Andie started to have some realizations, I finally started to feel more invested.
And then the incident happened. That, for me, was where the book really turned around. Hannah Moskowitz is an incredible writer, and what she does best, is chronic illness and disability rep, and abut 70% of the way through the book, she dives into that. And she does it just as well as she did in Sick Kids in Love. It was an incredibly hard hitting twist of events, and the following chapters had me on the verge of tears many times. In this book, we see chronic illness from the POV of the one who cares for the disabled person, and Hannah Moskowitz writes that just as well as she did Isobel in SKiL.
I’d love to see more of Ivy and Dot in the future!
In the end, I am still obsessed with Hannah Moskowitz and you need to check this book out.
Age Rating: 15/16+
Overall: 4 stars
Characters: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Setting: 4/5
Writing: 5/5
Chronic Illness Rep: 5/5
TW: drinking, drugs, over dose, grief, trauma, mentions of parent loss, brief mentions of bipolar disorder, mentions of chronic illness
Thank you so much Entangled Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All opinions are my honest thoughts and feelings.
Sick Kids in Love, Hannah Moskowitz’s first book with Entangled Teen, is my favorite book of all time. I have never felt so strongly for a book in my life—and that’s saying something. I actually screamed when I heard back from Entangled that I was approved for the ARC. So, suffice to say, I had high expectations for The Love Song of Ivy K Harlowe.
I found this book hard to get into at first. That might have something to do with the fact that I was expecting YA, and this book fell more into the NA category. A lot of the first half of this book revolved around clubbing, and that’s not something I have any interest in. I found the characters interesting, I liked them all, but I didn’t think Andie and Ivy would be good together, so I got pretty sick of the plot during that first half since it was just Andie pining over Ivy and their group going clubbing. When the book hit about the halfway mark, and Andie started to have some realizations, I finally started to feel more invested.
And then the incident happened. That, for me, was where the book really turned around. Hannah Moskowitz is an incredible writer, and what she does best, is chronic illness and disability rep, and abut 70% of the way through the book, she dives into that. And she does it just as well as she did in Sick Kids in Love. It was an incredibly hard hitting twist of events, and the following chapters had me on the verge of tears many times. In this book, we see chronic illness from the POV of the one who cares for the disabled person, and Hannah Moskowitz writes that just as well as she did Isobel in SKiL.
I’d love to see more of Ivy and Dot in the future!
In the end, I am still obsessed with Hannah Moskowitz and you need to check this book out.