Name: Fracture
ISBN: 9780802723093

Megan Miranda

After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.

Fracture

Meagan Fischer 

Maybe this review could.be higher but to be honest the sequel brought it down a bit. Cool themes and concept though.

Shawna Gavas

3.5 stars

When you fall through the ice in the middle of a lake, death is always a possibility. When you fall through the ice in the middle of a lake and don't resurface for 11 minutes, death should be guaranteed.

This is not the case for 17 year old Delaney, who was pulled from the icy water by her best friend Decker. Against all odds, Delaney woke up. Woke up from the coma she had been in for the last 6 days. Woke up from the coma that she was expected to be in for the rest of her life. Delaney suffered brain damage according to the MRI.....she should have been in a vegetative state. But she wasn't. And the doctor had no explanation.

Something was different inside Delaney though. Strange tugging and pulling sensations...an "itch" deep inside her brain.

Then one day while studying at the library she meets Troy. Troy knows who Delaney is. But how???? The accident was never in the paper, but the town does talk so that could be it. Troy starts to show up in all the same spots Delaney is "pulled" to by the "itch" inside her brain. Troy has the answers as to what is happening with Delaney....he understands. He was once in a coma too.

I enjoyed the premise of the book. Could someone really survive 11 minutes under the ice?? Could the icy water have protected the organs....like cryogenics? So little is really know about the human brain afterall....

The relationship between Delaney and Decker drove me nuts though. If I were Decker, I would have told her where to go. Delaney was like a sulking, weight around his ankle. I'm surprised it wasn't him that was dragged to the bottom of the lake.... She would treat him like crap on one page and be asking something of him on the next. Not an attractive quality.

Overall a solid read that kept me turning the pages. The premise alone is enough recommend this book :)

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A lot can happen in eleven minutes...A striking novel about love, friendship and the fine line between life and death.

Dina

Okay, so I was a bit unsure how to rate this.

I know this book has a few details that annoyed me a bit, but those weren't anything big and the story itself made some sort of sense to me, I guess. Even any part I didn't quite agree with at the time I was reading it, in the end I think it all comes together nicely and logically.

It's easily read (I read the whole thing in less than a day) and I think the emotions the characters are feeling are really well shown.

As for the characters themselves, I can understand Delaney's actions based on what she went and is going through in this book. I really liked Decker. I'm pretty neutral to most of their friends. Troy was just... I mean, I get that he thought what he was doing was the right thing. Maybe in some cases it actually was, but I still think that generally it was wrong to do it and his lack of morals made me sneer quite a lot. Delaney's mother got on my nerves often. Especially when she'd tell Delaney she was doing what was best for her, as if that could ever be a good excuse to hurt her the way she continuously did.

I really enjoyed this book and I look forward to the next bit, see if it'll be as good as this one was for me.

Alejandra

Le faltan explicaciones pero me ha gustado bastante bastante

Isobel Wren

Jessica Nottingham

What impressed me most about Fracture, right off the bat, was the attention to detail. The way that Megan Miranda portrays Delaney's struggle to fit back into her old existence is done beautifully. I didn't expect Delaney to be able to just merrily skip back into her own life, and I was happy to see that wasn't the case. She is hurting, she is lost, and she feels the difference in the way people treat her now that she is a "miracle". For Delaney, it isn't just the unknown of the ability that she's been given. It's much more than that. All she wants is normalcy. The life that she once had. In Delaney's case, she now knows that ignorance is in fact bliss.

The story takes off at a speedy pace from the time Delaney awakens, and the reader is treated to some very interesting character interactions. Delaney has to put her life back together with Decker, her best friend. She has to figure out how to fit back into her life with her parents who treat her like something breakable. Worse yet, this new ability has attracted a dark and sinister boy named Troy. Watching her navigate the twists and turns that this new lifestyle throws at her made Fracture a lot of fun to read. Questions about euthanasia, and life choices also show up here and really make you think.

As much as I loved the writing though, what fell short for me was Delaney's character. I didn't love her, or hate her, but rather felt kind of blandly about her whole persona. There were times in the story where she was extremely over dramatic. Then others where it almost felt like she was bordering on manic. Let's be honest, Delaney has been through one hell of an experience. I can give her a lot of wiggle room mentally for that. Even still, her personality bordered on whiny and hypocritical a lot, which was tough for me to read. I loved her story, I just didn't particularly love her.

I can honestly say that, as a whole, Fracture is a very well written and intriguing story. I know without a doubt that there are tons of readers out there who will wholeheartedly love Delaney's character, and that is why I still 100% recommend this book! I am but one reader in a sea of many. If you read Fracture for no other reason, read it for the fact that it blends two very different story types into one amazing book. Delaney's story isn't the happiest one, but it is well worth your time.

A breathtaking story of complicated friendships, twisted love and the fine line between life and death. The perfect thrill for fans of Sophie McKenzie and Cat Clarke

emily vickers

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Margaret Stacy

Briar Rose

Caterina P.

Kaitlin Cassell

New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda's heart-wrenching debut--a hauntingly beautiful story about what it means to truly live. 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?

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