White Ivy was an intriguing book, and I enjoyed reading it, but I feel classifying it as a thriller is a stretch.  There was little suspense or danger until the end, and even all of that was entirely predictable.  However I did really enjoy reading about Ivy's experience and POV as a Chinese-born young woman raised in the US and the pressure she felt to fit in, moving between two different cultures and two different classes.  None of the characters were especially likable (I include Ivy), so I was mostly reading for insight into Ivy's POV and experiences as an Asian American young woman.  

This book had several twists that I didn’t see coming, all the while being slightly mysterious - creating a combination that made it hard for me to put down. 

Ivy Lin is an unreliable main character, and this whole story is warped by her perspective. A lot of the characters seem like bad people, but I found myself constantly questioning how bad of people they really were, because I was viewing all of them through Ivy’s eyes. 

The theme of ownership comes up several times in this book. Ivy struggles to change her destiny, take ownership over her own life, but always ends up under the thumb of somebody else.