Dawn Lairamore’s Ivy’s
Ever After delighted me from beginning to end, and I’m looking forward to
reading the sequel, Ivy and the Meanstalk,
which is due out in a few days. The main character’s name is really Princess
Ivory, but she likes to go by Ivy instead because she has little use for the
stiff formalities normally expected of a young woman of her royal rank. She
learns shortly before her fourteenth birthday that, in order to satisfy the
terms of a generations-old peace treaty with the local dragons, she must stay
locked in a tower until a prince comes along and slays the dragon
guarding her. As a practical, no-nonsense kind of gal, she naturally questions
the wisdom of a practice that will leave her alone, locked away in a tower,
possibly for years. Her father, the king, refuses to budge, however, and she
eventually agrees to go.
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The adventure begins when she befriends the dragon (his name
is Elridge) when he saves her life and helps her escape the tower. Before she was imprisoned, Ivy
had discovered that the prince who plans to slay Elridge is bad news. He has
plans to murder both Ivy and her father. Ivy thinks that her long-lost
godmother may be able to help, so Elridge agrees to provide transportation to
the Craggies, the nearby mountains , to look for her.
This story struck me as original and very well told. The
reading level is 6.9 according to Renaissance Learning, and I really
appreciated the relatively sophisticated vocabulary and the way the author’s
words seem to flow smoothly and effortlessly. Lairamore strikes me as a
talented, creative author, and I hope she keeps writing for a long time to
come!
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