Fracture by Megan Miranda

2012 DAC 

From Good Reads:


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. 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.


My thoughts:


Fracture is a great debut novel!  I found the story to be quite a page turner and I really liked the author's writing style.    Delaney's story is very interesting- from the fracture in the ice to understanding how Delaney has been changed by her accident.  


In addition to the supernatural elements of Delaney's strange ability to predict death, the story has a nice amount of relationship and family dynamic issues.  For example, Delaney feelings for her best friend and neighbor, Decker.  I also enjoyed knowing a little of how  Delaney's parent's felt about the accident and the changes to their daughter.  

The cover art on this novel is great!  I found myself studying the cover some as I read the book.  I also think the cover will entice students to pick this book up off the shelf.  I know people say to never judge a book by its cover but as a high school librarian I know that students do judge books by their covers!  

I highly recommend this title and look forward to talking it up at school!