Published by: Harper Collins
Genre: NA, Contemporary, Dark, Abuse, Mystery, Suspense
Rating: 
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? She wouldn’t say.
Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn’t really “home”—no place where you fear for your life can be considered a home. Home is Ted, who she meets on assignment at a nursing home.
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 must find the voice to fight her past. And her fate lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But who really knows the real Mary?
Definitely NOT the best time to be reading a book like this!
Don't get me wrong, Allegedly was well written with an intriguing story - all in all, surprisingly good for a debut novel, but it was such a bummeeeeeer of a book. With all that is happening right now in the world, and even though the book was addictive, I didn't want to pick it up because I knew it would depress the hell out of me.
Also, I didn't really care for any of the characters enough to want to see what happens to them. Mary is a shell of a girl with myriads of mental and psychological issues which she only immediately identifies in others but never in herself. She is a bit too judgy for my taste, given her circumstances and how easy she forgives and justifies disgusting and wretched people in her life.
Between her and the ending (last 3 page-very unnecessary-reveal), I would only recommend this book to those that are into super disturbing, unsettling, everything-is-garbage-no-hope-for-the-human-race kind of reads.
I personally don't mind them under normal circumstances, but these are very abnormal times we live in and this book was not for me at this point in time. I will still give it 3 stars though for the writing.
Don't get me wrong, Allegedly was well written with an intriguing story - all in all, surprisingly good for a debut novel, but it was such a bummeeeeeer of a book. With all that is happening right now in the world, and even though the book was addictive, I didn't want to pick it up because I knew it would depress the hell out of me.
Also, I didn't really care for any of the characters enough to want to see what happens to them. Mary is a shell of a girl with myriads of mental and psychological issues which she only immediately identifies in others but never in herself. She is a bit too judgy for my taste, given her circumstances and how easy she forgives and justifies disgusting and wretched people in her life.
Between her and the ending (last 3 page-very unnecessary-reveal), I would only recommend this book to those that are into super disturbing, unsettling, everything-is-garbage-no-hope-for-the-human-race kind of reads.
I personally don't mind them under normal circumstances, but these are very abnormal times we live in and this book was not for me at this point in time. I will still give it 3 stars though for the writing.
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