Book: Fracture by Megan Miranda

Source: Book Store

Release Date: 5^th January 2012

Shelfability: Get!

Want to know why I bought this book? It’s stupid but here it is: cause the authors’ name sounds like two first names. Yes, I am ready for real life and the real world! Well, I had also just finished a miserable day of college exams (we have ours after Christmas, how miserable) and I needed perking up.

So, Fracture! The story centres on a teenage girl called Delaney Maxwell, who accidentally falls through the surface of a lake she thought was frozen over. Not good-Delaney is clinically dead for eleven minutes before her childhood friend Decker is able to revive her-and even though she’s physically alroight, Delaney’s not really normal anymore. She can pick out the people around her who are going to die soon. Not a skill I’d want to have, just sayin’. Then a dark, mysterious stranger turns up in town and Delaney knows he’s somehow connected to her new gift-but in a good way or a bad way?

I looooovvvved this book. I was in just the right mood for it when it came along and I think this is one I might actually read again. Delaney was a great character; very normal, which you don’t often get in this type of a novel. Delaney reacted to her accident the same way I might-she’s just embarrassed and annoyed about the whole thing, and wishes her new ‘gift’ would go away. He friend Decker is also completely adorable. I still don’t see why I never had a boy like him next door when I was growing up. The supporting characters are great too, and there’s just the right amount of creepiness; not enough to make you put the book in the freezer ala Joey in Friends, but enough to creep you out just a little.

Rating: Nine out of ten. Go out and get this book!