Good Me Bad Me

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Finally, Milly makes a friend at school called Morgan, a reserved girl who doesn’t have any other friends. She doesn’t have an easy home life, and Milly sympathizes with her. Milly wishes she could tell Morgan the truth about her past and what happened to her, but it’s too risky. She doesn’t want Morgan to think that she’s bad or monstrous. At school, Phoebe takes bullying to a new level. Phoebe and her best friends, Clondine and Izzy, send her abusive messages and tease her relentlessly. They follow her, taunting her, and Milly doesn’t know what to do. She doesn’t want to hurt them, because that would mean she’s just like her mother. On the other hand, she hates feeling like a pushover. The detective. A kindly man, belly full and round. Disbelief at first. Then, the stained dungarees I pulled from my bag. Tiny. A deliberate pace and a skillfully woven plot conspire to create a visceral read that's at once a gripping psychological thriller and a devastating exploration of the damage wrought by childhood trauma." — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review This is a psychological thriller to cancel your Friday/Saturday night plans for. Curl up with popcorn and snuggle up with this bad boy.

The ending not unexpected, could see this coming from what came before, but this worked for me too. 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. Unfortunately, I feel completely confused by my experience of this book, as my experience seems to have been somewhat different from most other reviewers. It is described as:Good Me Bad Me is dark, compelling, voice-driven psychological suspense by debut author Ali Land: "Could not be more unputdownable if it was slathered with superglue." — Sunday Express John, like all of us, was born into a family and social-cultural milieu. It was a ready-made context in which his caregivers lived and had become a couple. They, like John, had developed an identity and personality over time under the influence of their significant others. As a couple, his parents formed their own identity as a nuclear family, much of it influenced by norms and values they shared with a well-educated, middle-class majority population on the East Coast of the United States.

His “peak” scores in friendly and submissive style represent who he’d learned to be. They became self-personifying ways of behaving, welcomed by his parents and teachers, and by employers. They defined his “Good Me,” [2] an accommodating style with self-limiting consequences. He learned that it was “not nice” to express the anger, frustration, or intense disagreement he might feel. Good Me, Bad Me is the debut novel by Ali Land which has found a following of admirers here on Goodreads. However, I am not one of them. Let me explain why. Allegory and symbolisms abound with frequent, sly, and carefully orchestrated references to ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘Peter Pan’, which I will leave for you to draw your own conclusions.The Interpersonal Circumplex presented here is a model developed by Donald Kiesler in 1982 and operationalized in the Impact Message Inventory (IMI). A thorough and authoritative history of related research is available in his book: Contemporary Interpersonal Theory Research: Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy, 1996. All I'll say is if you enjoy reading psychological/suspense thrillers then you have to read this book. It's another one of those books where the least you know about it, the better. I know people say that all the time, but it really is.

SET TO BE ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY, CONTROVERSIAL AND EXPLOSIVE DEBUTS OF 2017 - for fans of quality psychological suspense and reading group fiction: once you read this book you'll want to talk about it. When Annie hands her mother over to the police she hopes for a new start in life - but can we ever escape our past? Phoebe is the fifteen year old daughter of Mike and Saskia. She is resentful of Millie and takes against her in a major way. At the same school as Phoebe, Millie's life is made difficult and she is bullied. It soon becomes apparent that the foster family is dysfunctional in its own way and Mike may not be as altruistic as first thought. On top of everything, a psychologically damaged Millie is under pressure as she is being prepared for the court case. The case is getting intense media coverage where her mother is referred to as 'The Peter Pan Killer'. Millie is having nightmares and sleepless nights. She has feelings of guilt as to her role in her mother's actions. She invites sympathy and compassion but then terrifies the hell out of you. It is not so easy to leave her old life behind. The burdens of her past and trying to keep it all secret is a lot to ask anyone to handle. Most adults would struggle to cope with the particulars of Millie's life. She wants to be good, but is it a feasible possibility? Ali Land delivers a twisted and uniquely written read here which brilliantly delves into our main character’s mind as we really got into Milly’s internal struggles that she had with the good me and bad me persona and the voice she hears of her mother in her head. We could really feel her struggling not to give in to the darker side as the voice of her mother in her head pushes her to that darker side. Asking ourselves the question, is she good or is she bad? Summarily, Milly is placed in foster care, in what appears to be an ideal household, with her foster father, Mike, doubling as her therapist.I think the problem lies in the plot structure. There isn't a classic murder puzzle to solve and some of the situations felt implausible. For instance, I could never figure out how Milly's mom was able to continue killing without getting caught. For heaven's sake, the bodies are all in the basement (not a spoiler). Wasn't anyone investigating these missing children? Our initial assessment yielded a profile (in the IC graphic), which was shaped by patterns of interaction within his family of origin and beyond. Up until now, these tendencies in John’s personality had served him well. Although his promotion to manager a year ago was not what he aspired to, he couldn’t help but feel flattered. Management’s decision to promote him was largely influenced by their appreciation for his experience and reputation for getting along with people including customers and colleagues.