Thursday, August 29, 2019

#ArcAugust Book Review : Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson @writeinBK


RELEASE DATE : 1/24/2017
Allegedly by Tiffany D Jackson  via @amazon

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?


From School Library Journal




REVIEW: 

HOLY. SHIT.

I received this arc back at new york comic con 2016 or so. Things got crazy so I had to push this back some. WARNING: YOU WILL NEED TIME TO PROCESS ALL OF THIS.

I'm glad I waited because some of this was just straight wild. As a child of Brooklyn, I loved the use of the neighborhood and vibe as the settings.

Mary is this symbol of crushed innocence for me. Even at the end she still seems so young and childlike despite EVERYTHING she has gone through. The abuse of the system, and its racial bias, and the life of a complete lie.

The side characters are fucking BONKERS. I am still settling all this down.

I was made physically ill at times and had to put down the book or hit pause. Take this book bit by bit.
So well done.

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