I received this free eARC novel from NetGalley. This is my honest review.

This has been on my TBR pile for so long, and I'm glad I finally got around to it. I really enjoyed the storyline and seeing the characters change throughout the story was a great character development. The plot was great and kept my attention. I'm glad I got the chance to read this and will be on the lookout for more in the future!

Sadly my reading tastes have changed over the years and I was never able to get into this one. I wanted to but it just didn't work for me personally. I think if I read it a few years ago I would have loved it but it is time to move on. I know a lot of my reading friends really enjoyed this one so that makes me happy.

I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.

Being a Milbourn woman, Ivy has known from a young age she was expected to have an extraordinary life. From her great-grandmother down, the women in her family have been magnificent, but very troubled, and she feels lacklustre and mediocre that she is just good at everything, and not a prodigy in any particular ventures. Abandoned by her teenage mother, she's lived with her grandfather her whole life, and is starting to be comfortable with knowing her mother left her. But now, the summer before her senior year, her mother returns, along with her two younger half-sisters, who think she is their aunt, and it's clear her mam has never cared about her. Over the course of two weeks, can Ivy come to terms with her own life, and grow to understand her mam a little bit more?

I've been on a binge of overdue NetGalley arcs recently, and this was one I needed to read. I liked it, and read it all in a day, but if I'm completely honest, it was a bit blah. I mean, I'm writing this now less than two hours after I finished the book - which I only started about 12 hours ago, and did work around it - and I've already gone hazy on some aspects of it. Erica - the mam - was awful, and yes, I think the expectations of her father, and the grief she felt after her mother's suicide exacerbated it all, but her treatment of Ivy was abhorrent. Ivy was an okay character, nothing bad, nothing really exceptional about her, and I liked seeing her come to terms with being an older sister, and caring for Grace and Isobel in the short time she knew them. There was some romance with Connor, which again, was nice, but I hated the way Alex and Ivy's friendship imploded. There's also a range of diversity too, of gender, sexuality, and race, which was a pleasant surprise when I started it. All in all, it was an okay book - nothing special, but not bad either.

Sadly this book was archived before I could download to read it. It has been added to my TBR and I’ll keep an eye out for it again in the future or at my local library.

I really enjoyed the voice and atmosphere of this book. I liked that there was kind of "something for everyone", but without it being overwhelming. Like, there were of course issues with family relationships and dynamics, but there were also a lot of great friendship plots, diversity, romance, and just growing up in general.

I forgot to post my review to this book when I read it, which I am sorry about. I’m not even sure what happened, or what I remember, which is also not good.
Three stars.

A gorgeous cover for a gorgeous book! Such a great read. Full review will be on my blog soon, so please check back for that. I love books from sourcebooks!

This book is so lovely. It's a quiet story about a girl named Ivy who, thanks to her talented (and troubled) lineage, is striving to meet her granddad's sky-high expectations. Ivy's such a great protagonist. She's smart and sporty and incredibly kind, though she doesn't exactly excel at any one thing -- a problem, considering the gifted women who've come before her. Along with her perceived mediocrity, Ivy's also trying to come to terms with the sudden return of her absolutely awful mother, and the two little sisters she knows little about. My favorite aspects of Wild Swans are its setting (a small town on the Chesapeake Bay), its friendships (Ivy's got two awesomely supportive girl friends), and its romance, which is equal parts sweet and steamy. Love interest Connor is the hottest YA boy I've encountered in a long while (hello, ink!). Definitely give Wild Swans a read the next time you're in the mood for a heartfelt contemporary with gorgeous writing and a wonderfully relatable protagonist.

Overall loved the book. Had a problem with the way the autos characterizes a strong woman.

Will not be providing a review for this novel, sorry for the inconvenience, but thank you to the publisher for the opportunity.

Ivy is looking forward to the summer, and to her future, hopefully escaping the tragic legacy of her female ancestors. All the Milbourn women are incredibly talented and doomed.

When her mother, who abandoned Ivy when she was a very young child shows up with Ivy’s two half-sisters in tow all of Ivy’s plans for a fun summer are thrown out the window.

I really enjoyed this book, more so than I actually expected to. I really loved all the characters and even those I didn't like were still wonderfully characterised. There is a broad range of characters and the book deals with a lot of topics with family being the main one, but additionally it deals with gender and sexuality as well as alcoholism and death. Naturally, there is a bit of romance lurking in there, but I loved that it didn't overtake the family aspect of the book and it just added to the plot as I really liked Connor's character and the positive influence he had on Ivy. I struggle to pick out anything negative about this book; I enjoyed the writing and just kept wanting to read and I was really satisfied with the ending. It wasn't a final ending, but liked it nonetheless because it enables you to imagine for yourself what the future holds for these characters.