Hello!
I just finished reading the young adult book Allegedly
by first time author Tiffany Jackson.
From Amazon:
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?
I enjoyed this book! It was one that I looked forward to reading at night. (That’s how I know I like a book…do I look forward to reading it at night or carry it with me during the day.)
We follow Mary as she slowly confronts her Momma, the girls she lives with in the rehab house, the mother of the baby who dies, Mary’s story of that terrible night finally is revealed. You don’t realize the twists and turns until it all comes to a shocking conclusion at the end.
I wold give this one 3.5 stars out of 5.
PS…this book became even better after I thought about it for a couple days. One of those, that I had to let sink in for a bit.
Wow…was my conclusion.