Good Me Bad Me is a novel that explodes off the page, with beautifully drawn characters and carefully executed pace. But Land takes this problematic subject matter in her stride and the result is an unputdownable narrative.

I liked the character Milly even though it was sometimes difficult to know if she was telling the truth. Annie's mother is a Serial Killer, The only way Annie can make it strop is to hand her into the police. It was Annie that reported her to the police after she felt her mother had gone too far and needed to be stopped. Her expertise was put to good use, and was without a doubt a monumental advantage in portraying the psychology behind Milly’s unbearable angst.Milly is an unreliable narrator par excellence, withholding information and her real emotions from both her foster father/counsellor, the art teacher who encourages her, the girl she befriends, the cruel Phoebe and just about everyone around her – as well as the reader, we come to realise as Milly dispenses just enough of the truth to tease and mislead.

I tend to take these predictions now and publicity hype with a pinch of salt as really it can't be predicted.The narration tends to flow steadily, thoughts, both good and bad pop in and out of this teenager’s brain. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. That’s when I started thinking, Oh no, this is young adult fiction, not the controversial adult psychological suspense I was hoping for. Sentence structure is awkward at times with Milly describing proceedings-- "shifted in his chair, he did--” like a sort of mini-Yoda.

If you love to get into the headspace of dark, damaged and complex characters you will really enjoy this book. away, but it shows that Good can overcome bad, when Millie helps a girl whose been bullying her, when she supports Mike and Saskia at the end of the novel- but all is not as it seems. The concept of the story told through Millie and the idea of her mother's murderous tendencies coming though in Millie was excellent and from start to finish I loved this book and never wanted to put it down.

And that’s before we see that his family might not be the best environment for her in this delicate transitional period. It raised the debate of legal responsibility/mental health and foster care in our household - that actually got quite heated- I can't say many books have done that! The warning bells were huge in this novel, often leading me to question if the events in the novel could have been turned in a completely different direction, by the selection of a different foster family for our lead. Land tackles the main character of Annie/Milly with both resonance and self belief in her key protagonist.