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 Review:
This book was so dark and twisted! I mean, it's about the death of a baby, and the 9 year old who went to prison for being the alleged murderer. But when Mary becomes pregnant herself, and wants to keep her child, well, new details come out. I just couldn't put this book down!
You can't help but root for Mary, she's had a hard life, from her Momma having bad days, and basically having to be the adult of the pair, going to prison when she was a kid, she's had it rough. I really enjoyed reading her story!
Mary is trying to make a good life for herself, she has a plan. To get an education, and while there are many blocks to her path, like the group home that she's in, not being told all the information, well, she keeps going. Because she doesn't want her child to be taken away from her.
And that ending! It was just spectacular! I wasn't expecting that ending, though there were a few clues. I am a bit confused as to the timeline, of how it all fit together. Because when the truth came out, we got most of it, but I'm not sure how to fit in the pieces that we got earlier...
This book was such an excellent book, and I can't wait to read more Tiffany D. Jackson books!
Author: Tiffany D. Jackson
Read: September 16th, 2020
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2020 Book!
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Published: January 24th 2017
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