All the Truth That's in Me Audiobook

Quotes

• “Effectively combines elements of traditional genre literature to create a distinctive novel that includes a powerful message about the value of women’s voices and what is lost when they are silenced.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Berry’s novel is suspenseful and haunting. Her poetic narrative will draw readers in, and the gradual unveiling of secrets will keep them absorbed.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Every now and then, a novel comes along with such an original voice that readers slow down to savor the poetic prose. This is such a story.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Berry’s YA debut sets itself apart from other historical mysteries in its elaborate second-person prose, even though some passages are a bit awkward. Judith’s thought-provoking journey as she searches for her voice...will inspire readers.”

  — RT Reviews (4 stars)

• “Kathleen McInferney’s voice for [main character] Judith is spot-on in the way she addresses both her internal voice and her speech impediment. Reluctant readers and avid ones will be clamoring for this title.”

  — School Library Journal, (starred audio review)

• “Lyrical language, a good mystery, and a compelling heroine—this is a page-turner with substance.”

  — School Library Journal

• “Like all things in this cunningly stylized novel, the setting is left undefined; a rough guess is mid-1800s America. The characters and plot, too, are mysteries in need of unfolding, and Berry’s greatest accomplishment is jumbling the time line with confidence, thereby sprinkling every page with minor (or major) revelations…The story gracefully incorporates everything from the right to education to the horrors of war to the freedom that comes along with acquiring language…A strange but satisfying—and relatively singular—mix.”

  — Booklist