Edition 2

AuthorHollowRyan
Jul 28
2 min read

Four jar candles are arranged on the left side over a Black and Tan background. Three orange stones are placed across the top, and a paperback copy of "Ivy" takes up the right side of the image.

Find & Replace is currently my new best friend. I notice one little 's' at the end of a word that isn't supposed to have it, and off with that bitch's head. And if you've used it roughly 83 times on the same word, it makes it so easy to fix it all at once. Yay!

(Sidenote: Today I learned that my use of 'towards' instead of 'toward' meant I was using the British English version instead of American and now I'm wondering if I should change it back, since it sort of goes to Lex's own voice. She did primarily grow up with her mother reading her books by British authors, so it could count as a characteristic. Let me know your thoughts.)

If you can't tell, I'm still working on my edits. Since this is a reprint, there won't be a lot to do. Most of it really is just cleaning up some of my grammar, sentence placements, and (obviously) fixing my most glaring mistakes. So the easy stuff, lol.

What's actually really fun about it is reading it through again. Now, I'll be the first to admit that Ivy isn't the strongest of the books. I don't typically remember too much of it. What I remember more of is the (few) comments I would get on the chapters as they were posted.

I've said this before in my PMC Spoilery Things posts, but I had to be informed via a comment that Nathan liked Lex. I remember which scene it was commented on (when Nathan sits with her on the bus) and the sort of double take I performed after reading that comment.

So now, after not reading Ivy for so many, many years, seeing Nathan from the perspective of having lived through this once before and knowing how it ends, I must once again ask: HOW DID I MISS THIS THE FIRST TIME???????

Not just his feelings for Lex, but the indications of the kind of person he grows into. The steadfastness, the courage, the will he has to do things that others typically wouldn't. I'm just enjoying this book so much more now as I look at the characters and know how they end up where they do. It may not be my best written book, but it's certainly a perfect start to this series.