Disconnected by Lisa Cronkhite
Amelia has been trash-talking about Milly lately, tormenting her, and all Milly can tie it to, is Matt. Amelia believes she must be jealous of Matt. It all sounds rational except for one major component, Amelia is Milly. Amelia is Milly’s other personality, the negative one, the one who puts hurtful and disappointing images and thoughts into Milly’s head. She started out being an imaginary friend but after the accident, both girls changed and Amelia turned on her. It’s rather creepy at first how some events that are occurring Milly doesn’t remember doing them but she is most likely the culprit, it makes me wonder what actually is going on. She’s struggling to keep it all together battling with Amelia who’s constantly throwing out cruel thoughts whenever a chance opens up. Milly’s good at ignoring them at first but as the story progresses, Milly’s trying to uncover the truth about her parent’s so Amelia’s constant hammering starts to take its toll on Milly and eventually Milly folds.
I’ve always been fascinated by multiple personalities. I liked how the author started this one out being an imaginary friend who turned bad but I think she had that temperament because she was trying to help Milly uncover something. She pushed Milly and helped her, whereas everyone else wanted to hide things from her. This was a fast-paced book with the author keeping the tempo high.
