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Disconnected by Lisa M. Cronkhite

Seventeen-year-old Milly has a huge problem on her hands. She is being bullied by Amelia Norris. Day in and day out, Amelia torments Milly and even threatens to hurt her, but she can’t tell anyone — not a soul. Milly’s reasoning — she does not want anyone to know where her tormentor lives. They only share one thing in common. Both co-exist as one in the same body.

Milly is so disconnected from her past that she feels compelled to find out what truly happened to her when her parents were still alive. After a mysterious fire, she and Grandpa George move into Aunt Rachel's Victorian home where Milly then begins to unravel puzzling clues to her family history. Through dreams and scattered memories, Milly journals her breaking story, trying to cope by putting the shattered pieces back together, all the while resisting with her inner demon.

Amelia is determined to cut Milly out of the real world—literally. Milly starts to wonder who her real family is after stumbling across Aunt Rachel’s notebook—having the intuitive sense that something terribly awful is missing. All she had thought to be true now seems like one big lie.

Just downloaded it. I'll join you :)

Awesome @Rachmi!! :)

Good luck with this one guys!

Thanks Sarah!! :) I hope this one is better than my last few.

The author is (view spoiler)[ Bipolar (hide spoiler)] so she wrote some of it from experience!

Sarah wrote: "The author is [spoilers removed] so she wrote some of it from experience!"

That's kind of cool. Obviously not that she suffers from that! But that she can write about it, it always good to read a book about something the author has personal experience with. Its so much more realistic. :)

I'll join this :)

Awesome!! :)

Starting this now :D

Uhh. 6% - (view spoiler)[ How is Milly supposed to kill Amelia without hurting herself? (hide spoiler)]

I started it a while ago but since I'm at the office now I have to put it down and continue later, tonight :D

Sarah wrote: "The author is [spoilers removed] so she wrote some of it from experience!"

I thought (view spoiler)[Milly suffered schizophrenia, instead of bipolar (hide spoiler)].

Anyway, I think it's better (view spoiler)[if at the beginning of the book (Sales handle page) doesn't mention that Milly is Amelia Norris, because it's kinda ruin the mystery for me, even for only 2 chapters since I can guess that Milly and Amelia are the same person after chapter 2 (hide spoiler)]

I am going to start soon after my piano lesson. :)

Hey, Rachel! You're in this story!

20% - (view spoiler)[ The aunt knows about the illness? And is writing a story about it? Woaaah (hide spoiler)]

Is this any good? I have a copy since last month but I'm not sure if I'd still read this. (view spoiler)[Knowing that the MC has bipolar from the publisher's message kinda ruined the whole mystery for me. (hide spoiler)]

It's really boring. -_- I couldn't get into it but I'll still finish it.

36% I'm bored.............. :(

(view spoiler)[I think the diary that Milly read belongs to her aunt and her mom has the same mental illness as she does, whether it's bipolar or schizophrenia. I personally thought it's schizophrenia but Sarah said the author has bipolar and she shared her some experience in this book (hide spoiler)].

I'm going to put this book down for awhile to read The Winner's Curse :)

I think I'm gonna

Margarita wrote: "Hey, Rachel! You're in this story!

20% - [spoilers removed]"

That's what I thought

Danna wrote: "Is this any good? I have a copy since last month but I'm not sure if I'd still read this. [spoilers removed]"

Agree, I feel that way too, even if the mystery only keep in 2 chapters because I can guess it from there, still...it ruins the mystery for me.

I put this down for a while haha. Reading a different book now. I guess I'll read Winner's Curse too first

Margarita wrote: "I put this down for a while haha. Reading a different book now. I guess I'll read Winner's Curse too first"

Glad I'm not the only one who thought it's so boring :)

Sorry that I didn't start yesterday girls. I'll try to tonight but its exam week this week so I am overloaded with revision. If I cannot start tonight, I definitely will tomorrow. Sorry! :)

Rachel wrote: "Sorry that I didn't start yesterday girls. I'll try to tonight but its exam week this week so I am overloaded with revision. If I cannot start tonight, I definitely will tomorrow. Sorry! :)"

Don't worry, Rachel. It isn't a page-turner kind of book and is quite boring. So I think you better put your exam first.

Okay. Thanks Rachmi!! I will study, finish Shatter Me (nearly done and its very easy to read through) and then start this!! ;)

Rachel wrote: "Okay. Thanks Rachmi!! I will study, finish Shatter Me (nearly done and its very easy to read through) and then start this!! ;)"

I'm going to put this book down too and read The Winner's Curse instead :D. I think we can read it at the same time eventually, after you finish your exam. And gook luck on your exam, Rachel.

It's the author who is bipolar. She used her experiences of having a mental illness, rather than having the same illness as the main character.

And I agree. This was boring ☹

@Rachel - Hope you'll do we'll in your exams!

@Rachmi - Yes. I'll probably pick this up again after I finish Winner's Curse and In the After. ^_^

Guess I'd just drop this. Still have lots of books to read.

I finally finished it, though I need almost a month to do it :D

I haven't picked this up again yet. Lol.

It was a bit dull unfortunately.

Margarita wrote: "I haven't picked this up again yet. Lol."

I forced myself to pick it up again yesterday while I was at home a whole day :D

Sarah wrote: "It was a bit dull unfortunately."

And boring!