Allegedly -Book Review

#Allegedly #TiffanyDJackson #BookReview
0:00 - Introduction
0:14 - Synopsis
1:31 - My Review
4:02 - Spoiler
5:18 - End Of Spoiler
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7:27 - Ending
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My Review
The beginning of Chapter 1 starts you off with an excerpt from what I presume to be a book in the story, entitled “Babies Killing Babies: Profiles of Preteen and Teen Murderers” by Jane E. Woods and even tells us which page we are getting this from. Page 10.
The excerpt given talks about how some children are just born bad, “plain and simple” is how the book describes it. Talking about how we cannot blame a child’s surroundings or upbringings for their particularly unnatural behavior.
This was also the case with our main character Mary, majority of the people in our story thought. Comparing Mary to an eight-year-old girl from a 1950s classic film, who in the story was viewed as a perfect little girl with an equally picture perfect family, and yet was actually a horrific villain who killed anyone who would not let her have her way.
Even if Mary did “allegedly” kill a baby, we could never recognize her enough to know whether or not she had experienced something powerful enough to make her snap, whether evil was within her all along like they said, or whether she ever really was at fault in the first place.
I personally enjoy Jackson’s use of an excerpt to depict what people thought or more so believed about Mary B. Addison and her case. She applies this method in every chapter throughout the book. Showing excerpts from books, reports, notes, and interviews with other characters in the book sharing everything they know about the important characters.
I also appreciate the way Jackson explains her scenes, giving us so much important detail, helping us personally visualize the setting and actually feel like a part of the character in the story. The wording and layering from a certain scene, a chaotic one for example, is so well described that it makes the reader feel like they are in on the action.
Some may describe some of Jackson’s wording being a bit much, being highly inappropriate and unsuitable for young teens.
My favorite thing about this book is how incredibly realistic it is, I mean whatever happened in the story, could happen to almost anyone in real life. It mainly focuses on the point of view of a sixteen-year-old girl, while also sometimes showing the conversations she has with the people around her that may be in a similar position as she is.
SPOILER SCENE
At the last chapter where we find a very twisted ending to it all, and ultimately starting to feel very frightened of the character we thought we were learning about, Mary suddenly says “I’ll be good…You’ll see.” Speaking directly to the reader, as if knowing we were with her and her story all along. As if she had seen our reaction to the unexpected unraveling of the truth that she really is the killer, and that even an innocent looking child could be capable of murder.
This scene gave me as a reader, major chills, and made me feel very spooked of the idea that the book acted as a portal connecting Mary to me, letting me know that she knew all along and that she even fooled the person reading about her the whole entire time. She had indeed deceived everyone, especially the reader.
I believe that Jackson also did this to show us that her character Mary, is unlike any other girl, is not at all what we had expected her to be, is smart in a whole other level for her age, and believe it or not truly is a psychopath.
I applaud Tiffany D. Jackson for this much unexpected turn of events.
END OF SPOILER
My only complaint is that I wish we had other chapters of the story told in the point of view of other characters, to receive a broader sense of understanding everything and how they themselves felt in the moment.
However, I think I understand as to why Jackson did not want to tell her story in that lighting. I think it is because she wanted the reader to focus their whole attention to the main character, Mary. Pay attention to what she does, says, and feels with or without the other characters, having us believe we understand and know her personality a lot more than anyone else does in the book itself.
Unlike the other reviews I have read online, I am very fond of this book and wish I had read this book a lot sooner, bearing in mind that this was Tiffany Jackson’s debut novel!
I highly recommend this book to people that enjoy a little mystery and thriller, and are maybe above the ages of thirteen or fourteen, because of some of the inappropriate uses of language and descriptions for certain situations. Unless you have your parents’ permission or something.
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