Somebody stop Ivy Pocket
Caleb Krisp
- Reading
- As this is the second book in a trilogy, consider reading it alongside the first if you want context for Ivy’s earlier adventures.
- Themes
- Ivy’s unreliability: Ivy is presented as an unreliable maid, and the story follows her through several requests and a mystery. Her unreliability is a stated feature of how Ivy is characterised, which may shape how readers interpret her account.
- Death and investigation: Estelle asks Ivy to uncover the truth about her brother’s death; Ivy’s adoptive parents run a funeral home. Death connects the mystery about Estelle’s brother with the funeral-home setting.
- Worth knowing
- Death is part of the plot: Estelle asks Ivy to uncover the truth about her brother’s death, and Ivy’s adoptive parents run a funeral home.