Soon there will be a trial and Milly will have to speak of the horrible things her mother has done. She counts the days until the trial begins. Mike will be working with her both to help her and to help her get ready for testifying.

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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. This is predicted to be one of the big books of 2017 which it very well may be. I tend to take these predictions now and publicity hype with a pinch of salt as really it can't be predicted. I do think regardless it will be a popular book and a great one for book clubs due to the great discussion that could be generated! 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? Well most of them are. Right away Milly realizes that the daughter, Phoebe does NOT want Milly around.The way the story was told was a bit of a turn-off for me. The short and broken sentences provided the effect of being in the mind of Milly, the teenage daughter of a serial killer, yet this narration ended up becoming overkill and annoying after a while. I also have to mention that the "mean girl" scenarios throughout the novel were over-the-top. I don't enjoy reading about high school girl bullies and this book had a lot of that. This book is a work of twisted genius. It is going to be HUGE. Watch out for Ali Land' Bryony Gordon 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.

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Towards the end of the book Norma and Kaceey were feeling a sense of creepy dread leaving Kaceey feeling like she didn’t want to finish and Norma a sense of foreboding that didn’t sit well and was scared to finish. For Lindsay and Brenda they were unable to feel any creepiness or dread as they were so overwhelmed by the mean girls and everything this story touched on which was pretty much everything but the kitchen sink. All of this not helping with Kaceey’s unsettling sense of dread. Some of it felt out of place or just didn’t fit well into the story. Interpersonal theory asserts that each of us continually exudes a force field that pushes others to respond to us with constricted classes of control and affiliation actions; thereby we pull from others complementary responses designed to affirm and validate our chosen style of living and being. Donald Kiesler (1996) As a thirty-something manager, John’s self-structure reflected the effects of his early life experience as graphically portrayed in the Interpersonal Circumplex (IC) above. Let me explain. Summarily, Milly is placed in foster care, in what appears to be an ideal household, with her foster father, Mike, doubling as her therapist. Amazingly, Annie turns her mother into the police. Of course Annie is taken into the foster care system and is now living under the new identify of "Milly" with her foster family.Annie too, has suffered terribly at the hands of her mother, but at the age of fifteen, she decides to inform the police of her mother's crimes. The fact is, she was unable to help any of the children, and the last murder was just too much for Annie to bear, because she was very close to the victim. Annie's name is changed to Milly to help protect her and Milly is trying hard to not let the bad overtake the good within her, she doesn't want to be like her mother. There were more trials per condition: 72 experimental trials for the matching task and 90 trials for the categorization task.