Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Year: Jan 2017
Pages: 338
ISBN: 9780718182922Genre: Psychological Thriller
Reading Time: 18 Feb - 13 March
Binding: Hardback Signed Edition
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Blurb:
Annie's mother is a serial killer.
The only way Annie can make it stop is to hand her in to the police.
But out of sight is not out of mind.
The secrets of her past won't let her sleep, even with a new family and name - Milly.
As a team of experts prepare Milly to face her mother at trial, she must confront her past. A fresh start. Now surely she can be whoever she wants to be.
But Milly's mother is a serial killer.
But Milly's mother is a serial killer.
And blood is thicker than water . . .
Review:
I'm always on the hunt for signed goods at bookshops, the first line of this blurb with the orange signed edition sticker confirmed Good Me Bad Me as a new addition to my shelves. Psychological thrillers are always a good venture out of fantasy and young adult for me, I felt secure in the hands of Land with her degree in mental health.
At first I thought the main character, Annie/Milly, was much younger. I think this happens a lot when adults try to write from a younger POV, I wasn't fifteen long ago and I didn't think as simply as Milly did. But how am I to know that this isn't the effect her childhood has had on her? It's all a part of the psychology. No one truly knows the mind of these people, it's always educated guessing and speculation until the end.
The crime being explored is the kind of horrendous act that would be plastered over the news and have families glued to the screen, an excellent choice to draw in readers like myself. This is based in the real world after all. Plenty of pauses where I put the book down and just had to mull things over, haunted to say the least.
The fostering situation is more developed than the days I used to watch Tracy Beaker, so accurate for the girls ages and surroundings. London breeds mean characters, privileged ones especially that are always excellent to read about such as darling Phoebe. Whom I wanted to punch immediately after meeting. Tells you Land wrote her properly! Her entourage the typical buffoons that I most definitely have seen walking the streets of London too.
This is a tantalising mystery, made simple in Annie's mind yet we're left to guess so much. Land leaves lots to be wondered at, making you realise your own capacity for what this Annie could have been through. If the contents of this book doesn't disturb you enough, your own imagination when filling in the blanks should.
This is a tantalising mystery, made simple in Annie's mind yet we're left to guess so much. Land leaves lots to be wondered at, making you realise your own capacity for what this Annie could have been through. If the contents of this book doesn't disturb you enough, your own imagination when filling in the blanks should.
