Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death #1 Review and thoughts. Ivy gets naked, which is only saved from the reader’s eyes by a strategically placed shadow and flower pot (which felt old an more The bar fight turns into two straight biker dudes making out (because whenever Harley and Ivy are together, there has to be some sort of sexual situation shoehorned in). In this book, Harley tries to work her way back into Ivy’s life, they go for a drink, which oh-so-predictably turns into a bar fight. I wasn’t sure about the inclusion of Harley into this book, because while Ivy has some backstory with the Sirens (Harley and Catwoman) I was really not looking forward to seeing the same story played out in a different way. Harleen Quinzell guise, which would only make sense to the reader if you were up to date on Harley’s solo book where she is still coco-banana bonkers but puts on her Doctor coat like nothing has changed. We have Ivy working at the Gotham Botanical Gardens, even though she is a supervillain and all-around bad lady, where she is abruptly met by Harley Quinn, in her Dr. I would have liked more from that scene, or just a bit longer setup for the discovery of the Living Fossil, because the rest of the book really doesn’t really do much to grab me, story-wise. I like the abrupt way that Ivy dealt with the baddies in this scene, using the Living Fossil plant to dispatch them quickly. The mercenaries/militiamen who confront and attack Ivy and her African desert guide was a scene that I wasn’t expecting, but I did enjoy reading it.
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This book had a lot of promise, and I was hoping that being a limited series it would be jam-packed with action and excitement, but that wasn’t exactly what was delivered. So with all that expectation heaped on this book, when it came out- it was bound to be a book plenty of people talk about.
This book has been a long time coming, with all the social media petitions to bring this book to life- and it feels like I have been waiting an inordinate amount of time for this issue to come out.