Good Me Bad Me

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I've had a copy of "Good Me, Bad Me" for quite a while now and I haven't got around to reading it. However, I recently took it on holiday and was over the moon that it was such an enjoyable and entertaining read. Debut author Ali Land has a fantastic way of writing, with her short, clipped and concise sentences - this only goes to prove less is more!

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The story is based around Annie who has changed her name to Milly and is now living a new life with a new family after her mother goes on trial for murdering young children. All the newspapers are covering her mother's story and Milly is desperate not to be like her mother and be good, but she is the daughter of a murderess. As her mother's trial looms, the secrets of her past won't let Annie sleep, even with a new foster family and her new name Milly she is struggling to conform. Can she realise the fresh start she wants and be good or is her serial killer mother going to make her bad.A terrific voyage into the teenage psyche…Land has written an intense, insightful first novel; its believable characters caught up in realistic situations will make the reader think more deeply about teenage mental health. Fans of Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why will enjoy this book immensely.” I read this book in one compulsive gulp over two days and absolutely loved it. It's raw, superbly controlled and it chills to the bone' Richard Skinner The terrorizing at school starts to get worse. But Milly won't tell anyone. I was a bit frustrated with how everyone in Milly's life seemed oblivious to what was happening. Not many teenagers have a mom who’s a serial killer. Milly does. She’s 15, and she has just turned her evil mother over to the police. Mommy dearest liked to kidnap kids and kill them. She also abused Milly. The story is basically about Milly trying to figure out whether she is like her mom. It’s also about her trying to fit in, trying to pass for normal. She’s in a foster home with a psychologist father; a stand-offish, absent mom; and a bratty, probably psychopathic daughter named Phoebe (who is Milly’s age). In her head, Milly talks to her murderous psycho mother, and it’s clear that although mom scares the shit out of her, Milly also loves her. Good Me interpersonal behaviors have been associated with minimal anxiety, are highly valued and frequently performed.

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The style of writing can be slightly unusual at times with extremely short sentences, but this is because we are reading Annie's thoughts. This can result in making it feel unnerving at times with the jagged way she thinks, but it's a clever method of constructing an unsettling atmosphere.Towards the end of the book Norma and Kaceey were feeling a sense of creepy dread leaving Kaceey feeling like she didn’t want to finish and Norma a sense of foreboding that didn’t sit well and was scared to finish. For Lindsay and Brenda they were unable to feel any creepiness or dread as they were so overwhelmed by the mean girls and everything this story touched on which was pretty much everything but the kitchen sink. All of this not helping with Kaceey’s unsettling sense of dread. Some of it felt out of place or just didn’t fit well into the story. This is an outstanding debut novel. I highly recommend it to fans of psychological thrillers, especially. This one will mess with your mind and conscience, all at once, and I promise, despite all the comparisons to the ‘girl’ books, this one is unlike anything you’ve encountered, blowing all the coattail riders in this category right out of the water. A gripping tale about a teenage girl waiting to give evidence at her serial-killer mother's trial. Unsettling and unforgettable.” While Norma was listening to this story and was lost in the unstable mind of Milly and her thoughts the rest of us were overwhelmed with the constant bullying from the mean girls which left us feeling exhausted and really sad at how mean they really were. There is a lot going on within this story and many topics touched on here that for us overshadowed the creepiness and distracted us from the struggles going on in Milly’s mind. For the Twisted Sister Norma it was a very different experience as she really got into the minds of the characters as the narrator of the audiobook was absolutely brilliant and really showed how creepy and disturbing these characters really were. For our Twisted Sister, Norma this book definitely worked for her and she was satisfied with the ending but for the rest of us not so much. The ending left us underwhelmed and unsatisfied. We all still highly recommend this book and feel listening to this one would be the better choice as we did feel like we were missing out on an experience that Norma had that we didn’t.

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Of course this perked my interest because my social work/therapist side is peeking it's head out. I definitely thought I had this story played out BUT boy was I wrong. That will teach me ;)Told from Milly’s POV the dialogue is mainly in her head. Short, one-two word sentences. At times it’s difficult to follow and more than a little distracting. Dark. Chilling. Atmospheric. WOW. This book.. it sunk its claws into me and didn't let go..not even when the book was over. I feel that this book will stay with me for a while and that I will have a book hangover from this. This is a book that generated a lot of hype and because of that I was a little hesitant going into it. I was hoping it would live up to all of its "pizzazz" if you will, and it did! Bad Me interpersonal behaviors have been associated with moderate anxiety, are highly devalued and infrequently performed.

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In a pressured situation like this, development works best when it’s supported by management. John might need more people, but he also needs some intensive training, mentoring, and coaching. And when this intervention is tied to getting his whole team functioning better, and if it’s approached systemically and inter-departmentally, both John and the company are better served. Notes: A gripping, psychological rollercoaster, Good Me Bad Me is an unputdownable read that will leave readers wondering just how much control they have over their own fate.” Not Me interpersonal behaviors have been excluded from awareness, are associated with maximum anxiety, and are seldom if ever performed or even available to the person as interpersonal transactions.We used to call this argument ‘the slippery fish’ on the adolescent unit where I worked. How to measure the unmeasurable. Even after a decade of working in mental health, I’m not sure where I stand. I don’t believe a child can be born evil, but I do believe certain traits are inherited and in a loving, nurturing environment can lie dormant. Put that same person in an abusive, violent environment, however, and those traits grow in strength. I’ve seen twins brought up separately who end up developing the same mental illness. I’ve seen children who you would expect to be ill, but aren’t; the factor of resilience muddying the water further. I’ve seen teenagers take on traits, not just from the parent they live with, but the absent parent they haven’t seen since they were a baby. I’ve seen all of that, yet I still don’t know. It has always, and will always be the greyest of grey areas, but even if it seems futile at points, we should never stop trying to understand or care for our young people, the product of both their environment and their genes. I was a little nervous starting this one as I was afraid that the author would be too graphic about the murders and I really didn't want to go down that road but thankfully the reader is spared any gruesome details and the book is an extremely clever and well written Psychological thriller. This is a genre I had basically given up on in 2016 and delighted to say this is the second really well thought out thriller that I have read this year.