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3.52 AVERAGE
I love Megan Miranda. She just tells a good story and I feel like she gets the high school vibe. I would have loved to have read this when I was in high school, right after I devoured the latest Christopher Pike book and watched Heathers. I will be getting the next Fracture book when the library opens.
This book was based on a great idea (I seem to be saying this a lot recently).the characters were interesting, the plot intriguing and in theory this book should have been amazing. But it was missing that indefinable quality that makes you unable to put it down and that’s what I was looking for. Instead I put this book down for all sorts of silly things like food, sleep and Sims. That being said the ending was terrific and I am glad I made it to the end. There was still a lot missing from this and the original issue was never actually resolved. I imagine this will be covered in the sequel but I am unsure as to whether I will care enough to read it.
To date, this is now my favorite book that I've read in 2012. I read it in 2 sittings, although I'm sure if 2 a.m. hadn't have rolled around, it would have been one sitting.
We meet Delaney, a 17 year old who has just woken up from a 6-day coma...a girl who should be dead. Then there are her friends, a circle of kids that have known each other their whole lives. I easily connected with the characters because I grew up in a little Northern town and had a circle of friends like that. Miranda made it a very realistic environment. Delaney slipped into a coma after being under a frozen lake for 11 minutes. Even she explains, after 2 minutes, you lose consciousness. After 4 minutes, your brain starts to become damaged. She was under for 11 minutes. Her friend and neighbor, who she wishes were more, Decker, fights to save her. Lo and behold, he did. Delaney is a miracle. Her doctors can't really explain why she is alive, why she was able to wake up out of her coma, and why she isn't completely a vegetable.
Then she starts having itches and is pulled towards people who are about to die. She meets Troy, a boy who was also in a coma, and has the same itch she does.
Miranda was so thorough with her characters. Delaney's mom is very affected after Delaney comes home. All her friends are different around her. Everything has changed. The second half of the book really had me. I ate it up. My chest hurt and I even cried. It was such a powerfully written story.
We meet Delaney, a 17 year old who has just woken up from a 6-day coma...a girl who should be dead. Then there are her friends, a circle of kids that have known each other their whole lives. I easily connected with the characters because I grew up in a little Northern town and had a circle of friends like that. Miranda made it a very realistic environment. Delaney slipped into a coma after being under a frozen lake for 11 minutes. Even she explains, after 2 minutes, you lose consciousness. After 4 minutes, your brain starts to become damaged. She was under for 11 minutes. Her friend and neighbor, who she wishes were more, Decker, fights to save her. Lo and behold, he did. Delaney is a miracle. Her doctors can't really explain why she is alive, why she was able to wake up out of her coma, and why she isn't completely a vegetable.
Then she starts having itches and is pulled towards people who are about to die. She meets Troy, a boy who was also in a coma, and has the same itch she does.
Miranda was so thorough with her characters. Delaney's mom is very affected after Delaney comes home. All her friends are different around her. Everything has changed. The second half of the book really had me. I ate it up. My chest hurt and I even cried. It was such a powerfully written story.
Amazing book! Finished in one day! Loved the characters and the story. It is sort of a short book for me but I still loved it and it didn't feel rushed at all.
I read this book in one sitting. It was beautiful, complex, and totally spellbinding. I loved getting lost in the story.
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Fracture was surprisingly good. Not that I was expecting something bad (if I was, I wouldn’t have read it!), but I didn’t think it would be this good! This feeling probably comes from the fact that Fracture isn’t your typical YA paranormal novel – and because of that, I can see why many readers were disappointed with it, or just didn’t like it as much as I did.
There’s a romance, even a love triangle, although in retrospect, not really. On one side you have Troy, the new and mysterious and really dark kind of guy, and on the other you have Delaney’s best friend Decker, her neighbor who has forever been part of her life. The tension between these two was very different from the one Delaney had with Troy, but very complicated, too. Troy seems to have answers and, in a situation where her parents don’t trust her and her best friend has his own secrets, he seems to be the only one she can turn to. However, she desperately wants to be back to normal with Decker, but as they each keep things from each other, their relationship is now very uncomfortable. It felt realistic to me that their relationship changed as the grew up, and that they weren’t sure what do to with it, or how to act around each other anymore.
I loved Delaney as a character, even though she might not be the most likable person out there. She is honest about how she feels, for instance saying that others’ generosity surprise her because she isn’t sure she would have done the same things in return. I’ve never liked characters that are too perfect, so to have Delaney’s flaws exposed like this made her feel more realistic than most characters. Plus, her parents, very present in her life, felt extremely real, too. As much as I felt for Delaney, I felt for her mother too.
Also, I really liked the writing. Something in the way the author uses the words made it easy to relate to Delaney, to feel how she felt and to root for her.
The paranormal part was, in some ways, a very small part of the story. It’s there, and a constant preoccupation of Delaney’s, yes. But there is so much more going on in this little book! If you are expecting ghost hunting or action or lots of paranormal activity, you might get disappointed. Everything about Delaney’s new “ability” is dealt with in a very normal way, and though we get some answers, nothing is completely clear by the end of the story (not to me, anyway!)
Which brings me to the book’s conclusion. I felt it was a really strong one. It was a bit dark, a bit hopeful, but also true to life in that not every piece of Delaney’s life is suddenly fixed. We can see that things are getting better and will probably be even better in the coming months, but not everything is tied up with a nice little bow.
I almost only have positives to say about Fracture and, honestly, I don’t even want to bother with the negative aspects of it. Without being a life changing story, it definitely was a breath of fresh air among other paranormal YA novels, and one of my favorites of 2012 so far. I’m looking forward to reading more of Megan Miranda, hopefully in a close future!
There’s a romance, even a love triangle, although in retrospect, not really. On one side you have Troy, the new and mysterious and really dark kind of guy, and on the other you have Delaney’s best friend Decker, her neighbor who has forever been part of her life. The tension between these two was very different from the one Delaney had with Troy, but very complicated, too. Troy seems to have answers and, in a situation where her parents don’t trust her and her best friend has his own secrets, he seems to be the only one she can turn to. However, she desperately wants to be back to normal with Decker, but as they each keep things from each other, their relationship is now very uncomfortable. It felt realistic to me that their relationship changed as the grew up, and that they weren’t sure what do to with it, or how to act around each other anymore.
I loved Delaney as a character, even though she might not be the most likable person out there. She is honest about how she feels, for instance saying that others’ generosity surprise her because she isn’t sure she would have done the same things in return. I’ve never liked characters that are too perfect, so to have Delaney’s flaws exposed like this made her feel more realistic than most characters. Plus, her parents, very present in her life, felt extremely real, too. As much as I felt for Delaney, I felt for her mother too.
Also, I really liked the writing. Something in the way the author uses the words made it easy to relate to Delaney, to feel how she felt and to root for her.
The paranormal part was, in some ways, a very small part of the story. It’s there, and a constant preoccupation of Delaney’s, yes. But there is so much more going on in this little book! If you are expecting ghost hunting or action or lots of paranormal activity, you might get disappointed. Everything about Delaney’s new “ability” is dealt with in a very normal way, and though we get some answers, nothing is completely clear by the end of the story (not to me, anyway!)
Which brings me to the book’s conclusion. I felt it was a really strong one. It was a bit dark, a bit hopeful, but also true to life in that not every piece of Delaney’s life is suddenly fixed. We can see that things are getting better and will probably be even better in the coming months, but not everything is tied up with a nice little bow.
I almost only have positives to say about Fracture and, honestly, I don’t even want to bother with the negative aspects of it. Without being a life changing story, it definitely was a breath of fresh air among other paranormal YA novels, and one of my favorites of 2012 so far. I’m looking forward to reading more of Megan Miranda, hopefully in a close future!
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No