Review: The Good Girl
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
**3.5 Stars**Loving both Lily White and Dawn Robertson Kristy and I (Kayla) had high hopes as to what this book would produce. While we loved the idea of the story line and the outcome of the book, we both felt that it was running in circles for the first half of the book.A dark read evokes something deep inside when you read it. You question yourself when you side with the bad, but you contradict yourself when you side with the good. This book certainly did that. Gabriel brought out emotions that both had us hating him but feeling sorry for him. Eleni made me what to scream at her to shut up at the same time fight for herself!Eleni has had a hard life. Both parents addicts, killed by their addiction, she was living on her own at a young age with no guidance. She turns to a life of heavy drinking, work and school. Alcohol has been her blanket, her protection against her thoughts and her messed up life. Her personality is reckless and she sleeps around to fill the void that has never been fed.“I’ve always found it funny that my parents named me Eleni. It means light. A joke when considering that my life has been full of darkness since I was brought into this s***-tastic world. Light-my ass.”Gabriel is volatile. He hides behind a mask of tattoos, not wanting the real world to get a glimpse into his traumatising past. He is alone and a recluse. His life of privilege is not a happy one, what happens behind closed doors is haunting. His erratic, obsessive behaviour is a challenge, one that he struggles with.When Eleni and Gabriel meet, will their pasts destroy one another? Or will it be the uniting element that will keep them fighting until the end?“We were poison - her and I - and I refuse to allow any more blood to fall on our hands. Our souls were already damaged – already cursed to wallow in misery and the unending nightmare of our existence us and only death could set us free.”