Rowena’s review of Fracture by Megan Miranda.
Main Character: Delaney
Love Interest: Decker(highlight to find out)
Series: None
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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’ve been looking forward to reading this book and was happy when I finally picked it up. Delaney Maxwell fell into the lake and was under for eleven minutes before her best friend Decker was able to save her life.
Eleven minutes.
She should be dead but by some miracle, she didn’t die. She’s alive but she’s not exactly the same person that she was before the accident. She’s got a sixth sense for when people are going to die and her doctors and parents are starting to think that she’s crazy. She’s starting to think that she’s crazy.
Just like the lake fractured under her feet when she was trying to cross it, her life is fractured because everything is different for her now. She knows things, she sees things and she has no idea what to do about these things and the introduction of a new guy on the scene doesn’t really help matters.
He knows about her and he knows things that she knows and he’s got secrets but because she can’t really talk about anything with anyone else, she leans on Troy.
Lots of things pop off in this book that had me reading and reading and reading. The sexual (or teenage sexual tension I should say) between Decker and Delaney. All of the drama between Troy and Delaney. The stuff she was going through after the accident. Her parents thinking she was looney. Her doctor’s thinking the same thing. It all made for an interesting story and I was glad that I read this one but there were parts of the story that was hard for me to read.
Most of that was the back and forth between her and Decker. I’m all about the love interest. Romance between characters always gets me excited about reading a book. I don’t even mind love triangles as long as they’re written in a way that is believable and..right. So the romance between Decker and Delaney (if you could call it that) is very immature but still interesting. They’re best friends, you kind of know that he’s got a thing for her but you can’t be entirely sure because he’s very close mouthed about it.
The same goes for Delaney. She swears nothing is going on with her and Decker but the minute he moves on, she flips the eff out. So that’s what I mean about the whole back and forth stuff with those two. It goes on like that throughout the entire book and toward the end, I was getting fed up with it. I wanted the both of them to just come out and deal with it. Saying that, the ending left me perplexed. Perplexed in the sense that I didn’t quite know how to feel about the way that the book ended. I wasn’t disappointed but I wasn’t exactly thrilled either. You’ll have to read it to find out what I’m talking about but the ending and the frustrating relationship between Decker and Delaney then the whole Troy thing tainted my enjoyment some and that’s why I’m giving this book the grade that I’m giving it.
I did enjoy the book, I did enjoy getting to know all of the characters in this book but there were times that I wished that Delaney would have let Decker be there for her. There were times when I wished that Decker would come out and say what was on his mind about his feelings for Delaney and I never fully warmed up to Troy for him to be considered a third part to a love triangle for Delaney. Despite all of that, I thought the story was told in a way that kept me interested in what came next so I didn’t feel like this was a waste of time reading. I just wanted more from some things and less from others.
..and that’s your scoop!
Book cover and blurb credit: http://barnesandnoble.com
Thanks so much for your review!!
I have this in my TBR and now I fee like I got a better idea of what it’s like.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts,
Oh, you’re very welcome Alex! It was an interesting story with some frustrations but good, overall.
Thanks for the review! I can’t wait to read this book because it sounds a little like If I Stay, but your review make me think twice. I guess I better read it out myself to cure my curiosity! 🙂
@Hilda: This book has a similar storyline but written completely different than If I Stay, I wasn’t nearly as frustrated with Mia as I was with Delaney. =) But still, it’s worth a read.