Good Me Bad Me

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With some unexpected moments I really recommend Good Me, Bad Me to other readers who like this style of book and especially if you have a book club.

After graduating from university with a degree in Mental Health, Ali Land spent a decade working as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse in both hospitals and schools in the UK and Australia. It's rare to come across a book you can't stop thinking about, talking about and pushing it into the hands of everyone you know. This excellent psychological thriller will be a big success and I know we will hear a lot more from this author. Chilling, creepy and with a growing sense of unease this book really ticks all the boxes and was utterly compelling. As Milly awaits her mother’s trial, where she is set to testify in person, despite her age, she sits through therapy sessions with Mike, befriends another girl, a fellow outcast named Morgan, and endured horrific bullying from Phoebe and her minions, all the while struggling with the side of her that favors her mother’s tendencies.I'd much rather read a disturbed person's musings than read about any horrific killing scene they may have engaged in. Despite escaping her mom and starting a new life with a new identity, the memory of her mom still follows her and torment her. I could relate to Milly as she tried to do the right thing, while fending off the memories of being brought up by an abusive, self-absorbed mother. The questioning she undergoes in court is astonishingly brought home how a child brought up with overbearing, mind turning parents can have an effect on your psychological mind when she is listening out behind a screen for just the breathing sounds of her mother. At the same time I didn't feel like the author overdid it with descriptions of what happened and I appreciated that.

She so desperately wants to fit into this new family but their daughter has no intention of making life easy for her, especially at school.An intensely creepy novel about a young teenage girl Milly, who was unfortunate enough to grow up with a sadistic mother. As her mother’s trial looms, with Milly as the star witness, Milly starts to wonder how much of her is nature, how much of her is nurture, and whether she is doomed to turn out like her mother after all.

Her foster dad, Mike, is a psychologist prepping Milly for her day in court to testify against her mother. This is a chilling debut novel that does not flinch in the picture it paints of the traumatic consequences of a monstrous childhood for fifteen year old Millie.The story opens with a brilliant premise: Teenaged Annie turns her serial killer mother in to the police. You may find book reviews, chocolate sampling, adventures with squirrels, and a lot of tea drinking, happening here. Here, Milly is a whiny cold fish (did I actually say that about a poor kid whose mom is a serial killer?