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Ivy
Note: Alternate-cover edition for ASIN: B00AXVWFKY
Tiny rootlets grip and crawl. Vines slither imperceptibly slow along the walls. Waxy green leaves choke and suffocate all in their path. Ivy, it creeps.
After a post-war industrial boom, Ivy and her husband find themselves wealthy and ready to live out an idyllic life together. When they build their dream home, Ivy grows nostalgic for her namesake vines that covered her childhood home. When a shadowy gardener delivers on her desire, her life begins to spin out of control. Death lurks in every dark corner and there is no escape.
Tiny rootlets grip and crawl. Vines slither imperceptibly slow along the walls. Waxy green leaves choke and suffocate all in their path. Ivy, it creeps.
After a post-war industrial boom, Ivy and her husband find themselves wealthy and ready to live out an idyllic life together. When they build their dream home, Ivy grows nostalgic for her namesake vines that covered her childhood home. When a shadowy gardener delivers on her desire, her life begins to spin out of control. Death lurks in every dark corner and there is no escape.
- GenresHorror
161 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 6, 2013
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About the author
Isaac LeFevre
3 books5 followersI am an author of horror and the supernatural. I studied Anthropology, Psychology, and History at the University of Texas and Iowa State University and gained extensive knowledge of legends and beliefs from around the world and deep into the past. My research has helped him to understand how and why frightening legends and cautionary horror tales have developed throughout the human past. I live in Central Iowa with my wife and three children.
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October 22, 2015
This was a really good story, which reminded me, in some ways, of the movie Rose Red. Not any specifics, really, but just the flow of it, and the way it felt.
A married young woman moves into her beautiful new home, and the one thing she wants is Ivy climbing up one of the outside walls like she had on a home when she was a child, but her husband refuses to allow that. To compromise, she gets a room of her own inside the house, with walls that reach all the way up to the roof, and on either side of the fireplace, ivy will grow. Everything is going perfectly and they are living a happy life together, until the dark stormy day that the ivy is planted. After that, things begin to go wrong...
I really enjoyed the story and the characters in it. There are a few unexpected twists, and an ending I really enjoyed, with lots of action and definitely some frights. The way the author wrote the story really helps the reader to get into Ivy's head and to understand just how she felt as the story went on.
A married young woman moves into her beautiful new home, and the one thing she wants is Ivy climbing up one of the outside walls like she had on a home when she was a child, but her husband refuses to allow that. To compromise, she gets a room of her own inside the house, with walls that reach all the way up to the roof, and on either side of the fireplace, ivy will grow. Everything is going perfectly and they are living a happy life together, until the dark stormy day that the ivy is planted. After that, things begin to go wrong...
I really enjoyed the story and the characters in it. There are a few unexpected twists, and an ending I really enjoyed, with lots of action and definitely some frights. The way the author wrote the story really helps the reader to get into Ivy's head and to understand just how she felt as the story went on.
February 12, 2013
3.5* Rounded up for originality!
I thought the premise of this story was interesting and fun. I have always liked the idea of decorating with plants and I think the idea of an ivy wall inside the house is pretty cool.
**Very Slight Spoilers Ahead**
What happens though, when weird things start happening? What happens when the ivy begins to knock your pictures off of the mantle, and then harm comes to those in the pictures? Where can you go for help when you try to cut the ivy down and it bleeds?
These were some of the questions posed and answered in this book. The story just flew by and seemed even shorter than it actually was.
I liked that the author's style was a bit sparse. There were not a lot of words spent on flowery descriptions, and there wasn't much dialogue. I think it takes a good author to pull that off successfully. However, at times I was wishing for a little bit more human interaction-especially when faced with a couple of pages of solid text.
All in all, I enjoyed this book. I think it shows promise in this author and I would be willing to read more of his work in the future.
I thought the premise of this story was interesting and fun. I have always liked the idea of decorating with plants and I think the idea of an ivy wall inside the house is pretty cool.
**Very Slight Spoilers Ahead**
What happens though, when weird things start happening? What happens when the ivy begins to knock your pictures off of the mantle, and then harm comes to those in the pictures? Where can you go for help when you try to cut the ivy down and it bleeds?
These were some of the questions posed and answered in this book. The story just flew by and seemed even shorter than it actually was.
I liked that the author's style was a bit sparse. There were not a lot of words spent on flowery descriptions, and there wasn't much dialogue. I think it takes a good author to pull that off successfully. However, at times I was wishing for a little bit more human interaction-especially when faced with a couple of pages of solid text.
All in all, I enjoyed this book. I think it shows promise in this author and I would be willing to read more of his work in the future.
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