Allegedly by Tiffany D.
Jackson
Bahni Turpin (Narrator)
Audiobook, Duration:
10:37:09
Published January 24th,
2017 by HarperCollins
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Orange Is the New Black
meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by
Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while
surviving life in a group home.
Mary B. Addison killed a
baby.
Allegedly. She didn't say
much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only
blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a
churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted
Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it?
There wasn't a point to
setting the record straight before, but now she's got Ted—and their unborn
child—to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary's fate
now lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No
one knows the real Momma. But does anyone know the real Mary?
My thoughts…
Mary B. Addison is a black
teenager who allegedly killed a white three-month-old baby when she was just
nine years old. Mary and her mother were to care of Alyssa but when her parents
returned later that evening, Alyssa was no longer breathing.
Mary, now sixteen, has
just been transferred from "baby jail" to a group home. She is bullied
by the other girls she lives with and the women who work at the group home. Mary
wants to take the SAT and go to college. Those in charge of her continually
discourage her, pointing out how colleges and employers will not want a baby
murderer among them. Mary isn’t discouraged, especially now that she has found
out she is pregnant. She wants a family and wants to be loved but the adults
decide that her baby will be adopted.
Mary doubts herself and
thinks she's a bad person. She still loves her mother and wants her acceptance,
but wants to be free from her. She still has the desire to protect her mentally
ill mother, and her need to tell the truth.
Allegedly is highly
emotional, disturbing and very sad at times. The story was engaging, and I
desperately wanted to find out what happened next with Mary. Regardless of the
ending, which I wasn’t very happy about it, I did enjoy Allegedly and will be
looking forward to the next book by Tiffany D. Jackson.
Happy Reading -J
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