After graduating from university with a degree in Mental Health, Ali Land spent a decade working as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse in both hospitals and schools in the UK and Australia.

This is a tough read to be in the head space of Millie and all that she is going through with such intensity.

Good Me Bad Me reveals its shocking secrets slowly while reeling in the reader with all the intricate skill of a spider spinning a web.

Yes, the story can be uncomfortable in places but thankfully it’s not graphic about the child murders and the abuse they would have suffered.There isn’t much action, as the majority of the book the reader is in Milly’s head learning about what she is thinking and feeling vs. It's gripping, takes you to dark and disturbing places inside people's innermost thoughts, can get pretty twisted, is well written, keeps you guessing and hits you with some huge surprises. I would like to thank NetGalley and Penguin UK - Michael Joseph for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

Annie decides the only way to put at stop to these atrocious crimes is to report her mother to the police. I could understand that her case warrants someone with his skill-set because of the severity of the trauma she’s been through, but I still didn’t believe that she’d necessarily be placed with him.If you love to get into the headspace of dark, damaged and complex characters you will really enjoy this book. She asks herself, can I ever overcome the influence of my mother – and which version of me will triumph, the good me or the bad me?

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. It might not be for everyone, but upon much reflection, I think the story is more troubling that it appears on the surface, which is weighty enough, but it also opens up a plethora of questions and endless ‘what if’ scenarios, that kept my brain buzzing deep into the night. This is a perspective which is fast becoming a trend going by my recent reads: victim lit or, perhaps more appropriately, survivor lit.When her mother is put in prison she is taken in by a foster family who also have a teenage daughter the same age. This is a book that generated a lot of hype and because of that I was a little hesitant going into it.