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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I highly recommend this book!, February 25, 2007
Title: Poison Ivy
Author: Travis Vp Fox
APOOO Rating: 5
Amazon Rating: 5
Poison Ivy by Travis Vp Fox is the first published book of his many
urban psychological thrillers. Poison Ivy will leave you questioning
what you are reading, creating a desire to continue through this book
in hopes to understand the complexity of the character, "Ivy", with
all the twists and turns that take place in her life.
Mr. Fox has a way of successfully creating a story around the life of
one character, "Ivy". The reader travels with Ivy from the days of
a young child of five-years old into the days of developing into a
young woman. Along this journey of reading Poison Ivy, you will meet
a very complex personality, while engaging those characters that help
to shape the person Ivy is to become. Young Ivy developed a
relationship with God at a young age where she pleads for protection
and understanding of why He allows this abuse to happen to her and
all around her. You will hear the voices that live with Ivy,
struggling to know where the voices come from and who they are. What
is the fate of young Ivy? Is it a life of prostitution and drugs or
simply a life of survival? Ivy is a survivor, she is beautiful,
smart, strong and faced with so many questions and challenges. Who
are the players in her life and does she have anyone to save her?
Life can be so unfair...what choices do you make to survive? Mr. Fox's
writing style allows the reader to walk beside the character of "Ivy"
and to feel her every emotion, leaving the door open for you to do
some interpreting on your own. One thing you will take away from
reading this book is a sadness for this character, possibly with an
understanding of how the experiences of our young play a factor in
our society of whom they become as adults. Mr. Fox, with his
psychology background, desires to stress how we have "choices" in how
we maneuver though life, how we allow our experiences to determine
who we become and the factors that play a role on all of the above.
I highly recommend this book for those that love a challenge. This
book is a fast read, causing a desire to continue reading to the end.
Reviewed by S.E. Koshi aka Lady Flava
APOOO BookClub
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Hard Way to Exist, April 22, 2007
Ivy Davidson lives with her parents in the Huntington Park of Philadelphia. To onlookers, it may appear that they have a very good life. However, that's the furthest thing from the truth.
Drowning in a sorrowful sea, Ivy was terrorized as early as age five. Frightened of losing God's love, Ivy's sick father used that in order to trick his baby girl out of her innocence.
Unable to feel love and happiness like others, Ivy's only comfort came via heroine. All Ivy ever wanted was love, to live, go to prom and graduate. Instead she was misled, misguided, assaulted, raped and hated.
Continuously defiled, poor little Ivy never really grew up and suffers with trying to pave a way out of nothing. Will there ever be a change in Ivy's circumstance, or is she destined to be a forsaken soul?
Poison Ivy is a very difficult book to read as it deals with molestation. Though I felt like Travis Vp Fox started the book with promise, he completely lost me. Although I was able to complete the book, I am left wondering if Ivy was a schizophrenic, who began to hallucinate, or if she had alter personalities. It's unclear about what was and wasn't real and how much time had honestly passed. While I didn't find Poison Ivy insufferable, I do see room for improvements.
Reviewed by: Crystal
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
OKAY READ, March 22, 2007
This book started out as a good read until she started halluciating about a love and her dead parents. By then I just wanted to hurry up and finish and move on.
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