Fracture Review

Fracture by Megan Miranda  

Release Date  January 17, 2012

Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine despite the scans that showed significant brain damage. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can't control or explain, Delaney finds herself drawn to the dying. Is her altered brain now predicting death, or causing it?

Then Delaney meets Troy Varga, who recently emerged from a coma with similar abilities. At first she's reassured to find someone who understands the strangeness of her new existence, but Delaney soon discovers that Troy's motives aren't quite what she thought. Is their gift a miracle, a freak of nature-or something much more frightening?

For fans of best-sellers like Before I Fall and If I Stay, this is a fascinating and heart-rending story about love and friendship and the fine line between life and death

I hadn't known that a light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely.

Opinion

Fracture was one of the books that I had mixed feelings about in this case there are more positive than negative. 

The plot is pretty simple Delaney goes to the lake to play manhunt with her best friend Decker and others friend they are not supposed to go to the lake because the ice it still not strong same way they go and Delaney falls through the ice and she’s not able to go to the surface and ends up under the water for 11 minutes. Decker is able to pull her out and when she wakes up in the hospital she knows that something must be wrong because a normal person wouldn't have survive being under water so much time or at least they should be in a coma. But her coming back to life comes with a price she now can sense when someone is going to die or nearing death, which she describe as a pull or her finger start shaking or like she’s having a seizure.  When Delaney was goes back to her house, everything and everyone around her change and in her desperate need to understand her new "gift" she find Troy Vargas, a young man that has the same ability but can we trust this guy? Does he have the best interest for Delaney

Megan Miranda in an exceptional writer, her way of describing the emotion that Delaney was going to through were beautiful and haunting, she really gets into deep of the human emotion and the life and death concept too. I think my problem with the book was Delaney herself, I couldn't relate nor feel for this girl, she was very cold toward everyone and not only after the accident also before the accident and is kinda hard when you cannot relate in any level with the protagonist of the story, yes she changed but I thought her journey through her emotional recovery would be different. Her relationship with Decker was so complicated, they were both stubborn even though they have been for each other and were developing feelings for each other and I guess it got me frustrated but I guess how Mrs. Miranda wraps everything make up for all the frustration

Troy in the other was a very interesting character, he was dark, dangerous and he had an attraction for Delaney and I have to say it he was a very controversial character and I liked that the author wasn't afraid to write about the decisions he took in the book.  The other characters of the book were good I guess the background story about Delaney's mother was very interesting and I think she depicted her reaction toward what happened to Delaney was very real and it was one of my favorite part of the book.

I must confess that the book was a bit slow for me at first but after Troy appeared the dynamic of the book totally changed and the plot twists keep you wondering what would happen next.  

This is a very interesting book, like I said it has it flaws but it has strengths too but is totally worth it, you only need a bit of patience and you would get there.  A strong debut and I would be glad to read her next book.

Plot 4/ 5

Characters 3.5/ 5

Writing Style 5 / 5

Finale 4/ 5

Cover 4/ 5

Total 4/5