Reading up a storm

After by Amy Efaw

So good! I’ve been recommending it to everyone.

An excellent audiobook narrated by Rebecca Soler, who also narrated Lock & Key by Sarah Dessen. Devon was an honors high school student until the morning that everything changes. The police find a newborn baby abandoned in a trash dumpster near Devon and her mother’s apartment. Devon is home sick that morning. It’s obvious that she’s just given birth.

What Devon never expected that morning was that she would be considered an attempted murderer. The book follows Devon through her life in a juvenile detention center and as she recounts to her attorney how she came to where she is today.

A sometimes heart-wrenching story of a girl who never expected to be in the situation she finds herself in. We don’t hear a lot about the dumpster babies as much as we used to but that doesn’t mean it still isn’t happening.

Efaw has obviously done her homework here, especially in regards to the juvenile detention center.