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My Rating: 5 stars

Devon was a fifteen year old, straight-A student and her school’s soccer star with Olympic dreams and was more mature than her own mother. That is, until ‘That Night’ happened. Everything changed so quickly. The night Devon gave birth in her bathroom, in panic and desperation she threw away her baby in the trash can outside her apartment. Now she’s in a juvenile detention center, charged with attempted murder. She could face a life in prison if she’s tried as an adult. But does Devon even deserve that punishment? All of our answers determine on whether you believe Devon’s story: she didn’t even know she was pregnant, and she was so buried in denial that she was even unable to recognize the obvious signs of pregnancy.
I think one of the main reasons I picked up this book in the first place was because of is extremely alarming topic. I mean, what other book could you say is about a teen mom who throws her baby away in the trash? There is seriously not many other books like it. Also, it’s on such a controversial topic, I just had to see where the author went with this one. At first, it was kind of hard to get into. I got really frustrated because Devon relived her story through flashbacks, and I just really wanted to know what happened. But in the end, I liked how Devon revealed her memories through flashbacks, because it kept me interested. This is definitely a book that gets you thinking. What would you have done if you were in Devon’s position? What would you think if you were her best friend or one of her classmates? Is what she did wrong? Did she plan on killing her baby? Throughout the story, I had an unbelievable amount of questions. Really, After is just an extremely complex and well thought out book.