Jackson paints a clear portrait of a girl who has been manipulated into a dangerous situation, and you never feel any victim blaming towards her. Her insecurities, her dreams, her certain naiveté, everything about her was on point. Go watch it now.), but Enchanted as a character is wholly original and an incredibly realistic teenage girl.
Kelly in this story (side note: if you are interested in social justice issues regarding the #MeToo movement but haven’t watched “Surviving R. But once he gets her on tour and away from her parents and her support system, he isolates her, he abuses her, and he makes her completely subservient to him under guise of care and love. When R&B superstar Korey Fields (who is twenty eight to her seventeen) sees her at an audition, he offers to take her under his wing and help her become a singer, but from the get go you know that something is off.
“Grown” is an unflinching look at the sexual abuse and victimization of teenage girl Enchanted, a Black girl with dreams of becoming a singing sensation. “Grown” deals with themes of sexual abuse, grooming, and psychological abuse and trauma. Jackson herself puts a content warning at the beginning of this book, and it is definitely necessary. Jackson is one of my favorite authors, and when I heard that her newest novel, “Grown”, was taking on the sexual exploitation of Black teenage girls searching for stardom, I knew that it was going to be her toughest, but perhaps most important, novel yet.įirst of all, content warnings abound on this book. Jackson’s books, be you a YA thriller fan or just a thriller fan in general, you absolutely NEED to. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times: if you haven’t checked out Tiffany D. Review: Thank you to Edelweiss+ for providing me with an eARC of this novel! Except now he’s dead and the police are at the door. Behind Korey’s charm and star power hides a dark side, one that wants to control her every move, with rage and consequences. And suddenly her dream of being a professional singer takes flight.Įnchanted is dazzled by Korey’s luxurious life but soon her dream turns into a nightmare. But then legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots her at an audition. Korey was Enchanted’s ticket to stardom.īefore there was a dead body, Enchanted was an aspiring singer, struggling with her tight knit family’s recent move to the suburbs while trying to find her place as the lone Black girl in high school. All she really knows is that this isn’t how things are supposed to be. When Enchanted Jones wakes with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night, no one-the police and Korey’s fans included-has more questions than she does. Where Did I Get This Book: I received an eARC from Edelweiss+. Publishing Info: Katherine Tegen Books, September 2020
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