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The Disappearing Girl (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Kayla Marlowe is slowly vanishing…

Last year, Kayla’s world imploded. Her beloved father died, leaving her alone with a narcissistic mother who is quick to criticize her daughter’s appearance. During her winter break from college, Kayla’s dangerous obsession with losing weight begins.

Kayla feels like her world changes for the better overnight. Being skinny seems to be the key to the happiness she has desperately been seeking. Her mother and friends shower her with compliments, telling her how fantastic she looks. Kayla is starving, but no one knows it.

Cameron Bennett explodes into Kayla’s life. He’s sexy and kind—he has every quality she has been looking for in a guy. As Cameron grows closer to Kayla and learns of how far she’s willing to go to stay thin, he becomes desperate to save her.

Kayla’s struggles with anorexia and bulimia reach a breaking point and she is forced to confront her body image issues in order to survive. She wonders if Cameron could be the one to help heal her from the pain of her past.

New Adult Contemporary-Ages 17+ due to language and sexual situations.
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Heather Topham Wood’s obsession with novels began in childhood while growing up in a shore town in New Jersey. Writing since her teens, she recently returned to penning novels after a successful career as a freelance writer. In 2012, she published the first two novels in her Second Sight series: First Visions and New Revelations. Heather graduated from the College of New Jersey in 2005 and holds a bachelor's degree in English. Her freelance work has appeared in publications such as USA Today, Livestrong.com, Outlook by the Bay and Step in Style magazine. She resides in Trenton, New Jersey with her husband and two sons. Besides writing, Heather is a pop culture fanatic and has an obsession with supernatural novels and TV shows.

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NS
5,0 su 5 stelle Powerful and entertaining
Recensito in Canada il 25 settembre 2021
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I loved the whole sequence of the story and how deep the characters were. The mother character particularly hit home for me throughout the novel. I recommend this for anyone who relates to the story summary, and for people who want to read about a very very sweet hero.
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Zandalee
5,0 su 5 stelle An amazing and emotional read
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 6 settembre 2013
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This book hooked me in with its synopsis. It sounded like it was going to be intense and different from what I had been reading recently. But I never thought that it would affect me as much as it did.

Kayla Marlowe is a 21 year old college student who may seem all together on the outside but is battling some dangerous inner demons. Let it be known that some of those demons came from the fact that she found her father's dead body as a child but mainly because her mother constantly tells her how fat and ugly she is. She struggles in life because of her obsession to be skinny. She can't have normal relationships and is unable to view food as anything more than an unnecessary, toxic for her body.

The way her mother treated her and her younger sister disgusted me and it made me so sad that they didn't stand up for themselves even a little bit. Right from the start we see how much of a negative influence her mother is. As well as how much she suffers because of her mother's words and actions.

It was so sad and difficult to read her thoughts and her going through her diet. A diet, that to an outsider was obvious was hurting and slowly killing her. And to think that there are so many females out there in the world that actually go through this. The most disturbing part of this book was reading the section where Kayla goes online and finds a "Pro Ana" website. Basically, a forum where other girls like her "cheer" each other on and give tips on how to purge their food, stay skinny, etc. I actually cried throughout most of this book, but this part really had my eyes looking like the Niagara Falls.

The author's writing was just flawless. The Disappearing Girl is so on point and really grasps the brutality of self-image that so many girls go through. The Disappearing Girl is beyond amazing. So much more than just a contemporary romance novel. This book needs to given out to ever lovely lady in the world. While I may not have any of the disorders that are focused on in the story, I can certainly understand where Kayla Marlowe was coming from. As a female, I'm constantly thinking about my weight and how I look. Every female out there -regardless if they struggle with Anorexia, Bulimia, etc.- can relate to Kayla in some way.
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Jessica S
5,0 su 5 stelle Sensitive Approach to a Difficult Issue
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 27 luglio 2013
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The Disappearing Girl by Heather Topham Wood is a book which I would like to see presented to girls of around sixteen (and perhaps younger if some of the sexual content was toned down or omitted). Thanks to the media, eating disorders have a higher profile than ever before and they are a stark contrast to the increasing obesity figures. Wood covers the serious issues of eating disorders skilfully which, to me, was more important than the romance aspects of this book. Although, the latter might be the main appeal for younger readers picking up this book. For this reason I see this book as being a good way to raise awareness of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa on an emotional and cognitive level, rather than a dull factual level.

The protagonist, Kayla, begins as a relatively normal and relatable girl. She is shy, a little overweight and down to earth. To put it simply she is likeable reliable and responsible as a sister, friend and individual. The pressure of her father's death and her mother's unyielding criticism of her weight soon become too much for her to handle any longer. Kayla soon begins to binge and purge, then starts starving herself. Wood details Kayla's downward spiral and the unfortunate symptoms of eating disorders, such as pushing those who want to help away.

I won't spoil the ending for anyone intending to read the book, but I will say that I found this book predictable. I don't mean this in a negative way. However, having studied eating disorders I could already foresee what would happen next and even the ending. Nevertheless, it was an enjoyable journey. As I have never had an eating disorder myself, nor do I personally know anyone who has, I do not know how accurately Wood's construction of the cognitions and emotions of someone suffering with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa were. However, Wood seemed careful not to under exaggerate or belittle Kayla in her struggles.

Needless to say, what I liked about this book was just the way that such a sensitive issue was handled and explored. Kayla's normal-ness made it feel much more real, though at times I found the romance and the character of Cameron to be a little... intense and possibly over the top. But girls in love are that way, aren't they? Strangely enough I also liked how Wood's constructed Kayla's mother. Making her out to be the evil step-mother type character (though she is her biological mother), then linking that to her own pain over her husband's death and upbringing helps remind the reader that more than genes are passed on in a family.

I found the ending to be a rather pleasant tying up of the story. Sometimes it is nice to have some real closure at the end of a story rather than being left on a frustrating cliff hanger where you wished another chapter existed. At the same time, because I had predicted most of the plot, I did consider not reading the last chapter or two because it seemed pretty obvious how things would end.

Ultimately, I found this book to be well written, engrossing and just the right length. The characters were well crafted and the issues at the heart of the book were brilliantly explored throughout the course of the novel. It is certainly worth the price and I would recommend it to anyone who likes reading about life issues or romance. But, it isn't the most cheerful of books, so avoid reading it if you want something as a pick-me-up!
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Heather
4,0 su 5 stelle Extremely powerful!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 9 settembre 2013
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Kayla has had 21 years of being told she isn't good enough. She's too plain, she's too fat, she too many things in her mothers eyes. She used to have a buffer between these harsh things, her dad. But since he died two years ago, things have just gotten worse.

Kayla has had it drilled into her all her life to watch what she eats and always be on a diet. You would think once she goes off to college this would free her from her mothers words. But Kayla still has a younger sister at home who needs her, so when she gets breaks at school she comes back home.

Kayla gets to a breaking point where things just get a little overwhelming and finds her self binging then purging. This doesn't turn out well, in fact it just gets worse. She not only continues this behavior but also pretty much stops eating, only consuming as little as 500 calories a day. Life for Kayla has turned into food, meaning all she thinks about is what she is going to eat, or not eat, how she will avoid going out with her friends so she doesn't have to eat.

Luckily for Kayla she meets Cameron. Cameron really likes her for who she is and what she is, and falls for her fast. He notices that there is something off and quickly learns what she is doing. He does everything to get her help. But Kayla has fallen so hard, so fast that she doesn't think straight and soon starts to think everyone is against her and only wants her fat again. Things continue to spiral out of control until Kayla finds herself in a hospital.

This is a very powerful, well written book, that had me in tears because of the things that Kayla was doing to her self. I felt like I really understood what Kayla was going through and understood what her thinking process was, this book puts you right there and makes you wish you could be one of Kayla's friends so you could help her.
If ever there was a book written to help you understand what women go through with how they should look and how they see themselves, this is that book.
*copy of this book was provided to me for an honest review.
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Merle
3,0 su 5 stelle Anorexie
Recensito in Germania il 14 dicembre 2014
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Inhalt der Geschichte ist die anorektisch-bulimische Episode einer College-Studentin.

Kayla Marlowe hat vor zwei Jahren ihren geliebten Vater unerwartet verloren und seinen Tod nie verwunden. Zwischen der Verantwortung für ihre jüngere Schwester und der Erwartungshaltung ihrer kalten Mutter driftet sie immer mehr in eine schwerste Essstörung ab.

Die Geschichte ist sehr einfühlsam und genau beschrieben, jeder Gedanken, jedes Gefühl wird uns nahe gebracht. Wir erleben dokumentarisch mit, wie der Mechanismus funktioniert, der zur Krankheit führt. Interessant, hinter die Kulissen zu blicken. Etwas zu schwarz-weiss die Charaktere, zu perfekt und ohne Kanten der Held. Das Ende ist selber ist zu harmonisch, stimmt für mich nicht, die Anorexie ist eine langjährige Erkrankung.
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