The Revolution of Ivy (The Book of Ivy #2)

Overall Content
Severity
3

Language

1.2/10

Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking

0.1/10

Intimacy, Sex, Immodesty

5.1/10

Violence, Weapons, Crime, Blood

8.5/10

Potentially Intense Themes

0.1/10

The Revolution of Ivy (The Book of Ivy #2)

Amy Engel   

Ivy Westfall is beyond the fence and she is alone. Abandoned by her family and separated from Bishop Lattimer, Ivy must find a way to survive on her own in a land filled with countless dangers, both human and natural. She has traded a more civilized type of cruelty –forced marriages and murder plots– for the bare-knuckled brutality required to survive outside Westfall’s borders. But there is hope beyond the fence, as well. And when Bishop reappears in Ivy’s life, she must decide if returning to Westfall to take a final stand for what she believes is right is worth losing everything she’s fought for. Excerpt taken from book.

Language

B****-1

S***-2

D***-3

H***-4

Bas****-1

A**-1

Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking

A father admits his feelings when drunk.  

Intimacy, Sex, Immodesty

A young woman yanks off all her clothes and jumps in the river for a bath.  Another young woman joins her.

A  young woman jokingly yells to a man, “Don’t knock her up!”  And he gives her “a rude gesture.”

A young woman strips down to a tank top and underwear to sleep.  She lays down next to a young man and he pulls her closer. She hold his hand up by her mouth and he kisses her shoulder.

While catching a young woman from falling, a young man holds her hips, then lingers and brushes his fingers on her stomach.    

A young unmarried couple sleep in the same bed.  They cuddle while they sleep, but no sex. When talking, she straddles him once to look at his face.  

A young couple are kissing, him pushing her against the wall, his hands in her hair and under her shirt, then cups her breast.  Then kissing her neck passionately.

The young couple kiss passionately often, they kiss each other’s necks and bare skin.  They also run their hands along each other’s skin, mostly on arms, legs, backs, stomachs and faces.  

After  kissing her boyfriend, a young woman feels this “hunger is sharp and desperate, and it demands more than I’ve given so far.”  She throws off her shirt and unclasps her bra. She then rips off his shirt. She says she’s ready for sex and asks if he is. “I want to see you naked.  I want to touch you. I want you to touch me. I just…..want.” “ Only I know the taste of his skin beneath my tongue. Only he knows the way my back arches as he moves above me.”  She mentions a “soreness” the next morning, one that she “would never wish away.” The young man asks the young woman if he can expect it to happen again the next night.

After a day with a lot of fatalities, a young woman showers and climbs in bed naked.  Her boyfriend lays in the bed next to her. When she reaches for him and cries, he cries too then rips off his shirt, climbs on top of her as they “move together.”  She digs her nails into his back.

A young woman runs into a man she knows is a rapist and murderer. He sneaks a finger under the bottom of her pants and caresses her skin.  He then caresses her cheek and lips with his hand and skims his hands across her chest.

Violence, Weapons, Crime, Blood

A young woman has injuries from the guards that put her outside the fence.  Scratches, a possible concussion with a bloody bump and a fat lip. She crushes a lizard with a rock, holding back her bile, so she can eat him for dinner.

A young woman come upon an abandoned house which has what appears to be an old blood stain.  She assumes it was from the war, generations ago, when neighbors would turn on each other.

A man carries a crossbow and threatens a young woman.  He then helps her reset her shoulder, sending her into blinding pain where she passes out.  A young woman carries a knife.

A young woman wants to rake her nails down a man’s face, and hit him with a rock until he dies.  

A man throws a bolt at another man, lodging it in his eye and killing him.  Another man holds a sword but he is overtaken by a young woman who lodges her knife into his neck killing him.  A gurgle of blood is heard from his mouth. Another man takes out the bolt with a wet squelch. A young woman wants to get a knife and get lessons on how to defend herself.  

Killing people is a “reality” outside the fence.

A young woman tells a man she will slip her blade between his ribs.  That she will kill him if he does something against her wishes.

A few men go out hunting, when they return they are bloody and bruised and dragging a bleat up, unconscious man between them.

A group of people kill and prepare deer meat for winter.  They are butchering the carcass and there is blood seeping into the dirt, their clothes and their hands.  

A couple helps a young woman escape her prison cell, she shoves one and grabs a gun.  She then points the gun at the young man’s head. The young woman grabs her knife to fight her off.  When one goes to shoot the gun, the other young woman stabs her in the chest. The young woman falls to the floor and yanks the knife from her own chest.  The scent of blood fills the room and the would bubbles and spills out of her body. They stay with her as she dies.

A man is holding a gun to another man’s head in front of a crowd of people.  There is a lot of arguing, some people trying to talk the man down, but in the end, the one with the gun shoots the other and his forehead explodes.  The man then turns the gun on a young man but instead, the man with the gun is shot from afar and falls to the ground leaving a trail of blood and gore on the wall behind him.  One man’s wife slips through the blood as she tries to get to her husband’s body. She wails fiercely.

The leader of the community has put people outside the fence and had a few killed recently.  

A coyote finds a young woman alone and is baring it’s teeth, snarling and trying to attack her.  She jabs a piece of metal in it’s eye as it attacks. It is dripping blood, as is she, and she screams and runs.  Her fingers have been sliced, on one of them she can see the bone.

A young woman runs into a man she knows is a rapist and murderer. When she tries to stand, he steps on her ankle to keep her down. Then uses his hand, clasping tightly.  He grabs the back of her neck where she was injured and squeezes tightly. The pain is so intense she sees stars. He throws her backward, grabbing both wrists and pins her down.  He puts all his weight on her and she’s trapped, even though she is kicking and bucking. He punches her in the face when she knees him in the side. She also scratches his face. She is able to crawl away but he grabs her hips, shoves her face in the dirt and straddles her. He twists her injured fingers and wrenches her arm behind her.  He jerks her arm hard enough that it wrenches out of the socket. He rolls her over, injuring her shoulder more, and skims his hands across her chest. He slaps her face to get her to wake. She grabs a rock and hits him in the head. He’s dazed but not knocked out. She hits him again, and again until his eyes roll back in his head. She feels she should hit him till his head is a bloody mess.

A community is planning to execute a young woman for breaking and entering.  Her sister imagines her body swinging from a rope, riddled with bullets and blood staining the street.  

Unrest is happening in the city.  Houses set on fire, people hiding in the woods, people turning on each other.  A young woman wants to return to help people she knows, if she does, death is imminent if she is caught. Armed men are ransacking houses and pistol-whipping who gets in their way. A young man talks of hitting the guards over the head to get them inside the wall.


Potentially Intense Themes

They do not have funerals, they just dig one large hole, wrap body in cloth and place them in.  No words, no ceremony.

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