A Blonde and 3 Boys

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.

Hello!

I was getting pretty bummed about my reading lately. Out of the ten books I h ave read this year, only two or three have been ones that I have looked forward to reading in the evening.

So when I read the book, The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson, I was so excited! I loved loved loved this book!

From Amazon:
The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local high school. Despite being raised with all the opportunities money can buy, these vulnerable kids are navigating a treacherous adolescence in which every action, every rumor, every feeling, is potentially postable, shareable, viral.

Lindsey Lee Johnson’s kaleidoscopic narrative exposes at every turn the real human beings beneath the high school stereotypes. Abigail Cress is ticking off the boxes toward the Ivy League when she makes the first impulsive decision of her life: entering into an inappropriate relationship with a teacher. Dave Chu, who knows himself at heart to be a typical B student, takes desperate measures to live up to his parents’ crushing expectations. Emma Fleed, a gifted dancer, balances rigorous rehearsals with wild weekends. Damon Flintov returns from a stint at rehab looking to prove that he’s not an irredeemable screwup. And Calista Broderick, once part of the popular crowd, chooses, for reasons of her own, to become a hippie outcast.

Into this complicated web, an idealistic young English teacher arrives from a poorer, scruffier part of California. Molly Nicoll strives to connect with her students—without understanding the middle school tragedy that played out online and has continued to reverberate in different ways for all of them.

This book is a harsh reminder that you really do not know what is going on in other peoples lives, you should follow your gut and do what YOU think is right, not what someone else tells you to do and many more lessons. It shows the nastiness of high school, the unrelenting parents that really aren’t that involved, trying to fit in and brought back memories of my own high school years. I read this one in three days…so good!

I would give this book 5 stars!!