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Milly’s mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school.

But Milly has secrets, and life at her new home becomes complicated. 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.

When tensions rise and Milly feels trapped by her shiny new life, she has to decide: Will she be good? Or is she bad? She is, after all, her mother’s daughter.

My Thoughts: In Milly’s first person narrative voice, we see the world around her from her perspective, and it is a sad, emotionally devastating world.

Living in the foster home of a psychologist named Mike, one would think she would have the best care and treatment available to her, but early on I could tell that Mike had his own agenda, and he could also be clueless about his own family. His wife, Saskia, is remote and probably narcissistic, and his teenage daughter Phoebe is able to hide her feelings, her attitudes, and her behavior. Not just in a typical teenage way, but in a hurtful, pathological way.

Milly, on the other hand, proves to be adept at her own secret agenda, and as more time goes by, we see her behavior ratchet up to an extremely manipulative level as she hears her mother’s imaginary voice guiding her and reminding her that she has to make her own wishes come true.

What will Milly do to secure her future? How does Phoebe’s behavior backfire on her? And how, finally, does Milly have the last word? A chilling story, Good Me, Bad Me captured me and held me hostage for the duration. 5 stars.


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Good Me Bad Me A Novel Ali Land Books Reviews

I felt gravely disturb by this book. I hoped for a more reasonable ending. While I know sick demented people exist,
Actually reading about them, even in fiction form, is more upsetting than I can adequately express. Won’t recommend to my friends,or anyone I care about. Only get because of reviews. My mistake.
Annie’s mother is a serial killer and she would have gone on killing, until Annie went to the police… Now Annie has a new name, Milly, and is being fostered by Mike, his wife Saskia and their daughter, Phoebe. Milly is fifteen when we meet her and the fact that her mother had plans for her sixteenth birthday prompted her to stop her mother - that, and the fact she knew her mother’s last victim. She is desperate to fit in to her new family, but it is soon apparent that this will not be as easy as she had hoped. First, the trial will soon be held and Milly will have to give evidence. Mike offered to take Milly in as he is a trained therapist, but he has an agenda of his own. Meanwhile, it is obvious that Saskia can barely cope with her own daughter, let alone a foster child and Phoebe is angry and bitter about Milly being in her home.

Before long, Milly, already struggling with so much, is being bullied by Phoebe and her friends. Needing an alliance, she befriends Morgan – a younger girl from the local estate. She needs someone to trust with her secrets, but who can she turn to? Milly is a very sympathetic character, but we are always aware that there are secrets surrounding her mother’s crimes and that she knows more about than she admits. This is a very interesting novel, which looks at the effects of a young child in a terribly dysfunctional home, with a mother who commits the most terrible crimes and abuses her. Is she guilty – is she implicated in some way? If Mike and his family are unwilling to keep her, where will she go after the trial and, is she enough her mother’s daughter, to change events?

I found this a truly gripping read. It made me consider the way that Milly sees herself, the fact that she cannot be expected to slot into a ‘normal’ family dynamic after her early life and the way that no family is really ‘normal.’ Mike’s family certainly is not a particularly happy one, whatever his cheery, outward demeanour. Meanwhile, Milly’s mother, although not really present in the novel, is an overwhelming, evil presence throughout – which was cleverer than having her as a character we actually witness committing her crimes. Instead, we have the implications of her crimes, plus Milly’s haunted memories and her physical, and mental, scars. I have to admit that I liked Milly a lot and felt a great deal of sympathy with her; despite the fact she is all too aware of her ‘good’ and ‘bad’ sides. The twists in this novel were a little obvious, but I really enjoyed the story so much that I was happy to be immersed in it and could hardly put it down.
Going into this book, you expect dysfunction and psychological damage as Ali Land details a few weeks in the life of a fifteen-year-old girl who is taken in by a foster family after reporting her demented, child-torturing, murdering mother to authorities. Her stepdad doubles as her her therapist and father-figure she has never had throughout the trial process for her mother. However, the demons inside her leave her to question every move she has made and continues to made and even the thoughts she has. Is she inherently "bad" like her mother and doomed for a lifetime of lunacy? Or, has her mom brainwashed her only so much that she still has time to save herself from the evil she sees?

This is a demented, deranged, and unhinged story that you can't step away from. Ali Land nails the notion of the human tendency to attain power over others for self-preservation. She braves the boundaries of evil vs decency. I applaud her courageous and bold undertaking of a very complex character and scenario. I see a movie being made out of this novel, for sure.
Milly’s mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school.

But Milly has secrets, and life at her new home becomes complicated. 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.

When tensions rise and Milly feels trapped by her shiny new life, she has to decide Will she be good? Or is she bad? She is, after all, her mother’s daughter.

My Thoughts In Milly’s first person narrative voice, we see the world around her from her perspective, and it is a sad, emotionally devastating world.

Living in the foster home of a psychologist named Mike, one would think she would have the best care and treatment available to her, but early on I could tell that Mike had his own agenda, and he could also be clueless about his own family. His wife, Saskia, is remote and probably narcissistic, and his teenage daughter Phoebe is able to hide her feelings, her attitudes, and her behavior. Not just in a typical teenage way, but in a hurtful, pathological way.

Milly, on the other hand, proves to be adept at her own secret agenda, and as more time goes by, we see her behavior ratchet up to an extremely manipulative level as she hears her mother’s imaginary voice guiding her and reminding her that she has to make her own wishes come true.

What will Milly do to secure her future? How does Phoebe’s behavior backfire on her? And how, finally, does Milly have the last word? A chilling story, Good Me, Bad Me captured me and held me hostage for the duration. 5 stars.