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Good Me Bad Me
by Ali Land
This is not your average read. No. No. No. This is your intense read. Do not plan anything this weekend. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Just clear your weekend and read this book!
I'm the type of person that tries to be friends with everyone, but I'm also a terrible judge of people. I can't imagine going to school with someone like Milly. I just can't fathom how one moves on from such a dark life and tries to start over with a new foster family, a new school, and a new community where you don't know anyone and you hope that no one ever recognizes you. Milly desperately needs good influences in her life. A lot of love and stability. And a whole lotta therapy! She's a fragile person, but also manipulative and conniving. She really pulls the wool over their eyes and does it with such skill.
Phoebe is an angry girl who refuses to befriend Milly. She doesn't like having Milly in her house or in her school. As far as she's concerned, Milly can just go take a flying leap. She has a lot of hostility towards her mother and she wants attention from her father who seems too busy to make time for her. Rather than confront her parents about her feelings, she chooses to lash out at Milly and bullies her at home, at school, and on the internet.
Mike and Saskia are not exactly the parents of the year. Mike is a therapist, but he doesn't divide his attention equally among the three women in his house. He comes across as overly obsessed with his practice, but he's very willing to counsel Milly because of her background. Saskia definitely has problems of her own and I don't think Mike really does enough to curb her behaviors and get her proper help. Her relationship with her daughter is almost non-existent.
All in all, this book is deep. It's intense. It's worth the time to read it!
I'm the type of person that tries to be friends with everyone, but I'm also a terrible judge of people. I can't imagine going to school with someone like Milly. I just can't fathom how one moves on from such a dark life and tries to start over with a new foster family, a new school, and a new community where you don't know anyone and you hope that no one ever recognizes you. Milly desperately needs good influences in her life. A lot of love and stability. And a whole lotta therapy! She's a fragile person, but also manipulative and conniving. She really pulls the wool over their eyes and does it with such skill.
Phoebe is an angry girl who refuses to befriend Milly. She doesn't like having Milly in her house or in her school. As far as she's concerned, Milly can just go take a flying leap. She has a lot of hostility towards her mother and she wants attention from her father who seems too busy to make time for her. Rather than confront her parents about her feelings, she chooses to lash out at Milly and bullies her at home, at school, and on the internet.
Mike and Saskia are not exactly the parents of the year. Mike is a therapist, but he doesn't divide his attention equally among the three women in his house. He comes across as overly obsessed with his practice, but he's very willing to counsel Milly because of her background. Saskia definitely has problems of her own and I don't think Mike really does enough to curb her behaviors and get her proper help. Her relationship with her daughter is almost non-existent.
All in all, this book is deep. It's intense. It's worth the time to read it!