I read FRACTURE last year, and liked it quite a bit, and recently two of my 7th grade students read it also. When I read their quick responses to the book, I knew I wanted to share them on the blog because these teens did a great job of pinpointing what they liked about this book. Enjoy!
Title: FRACTURE
Author: Megan Miranda
Publisher: Walker & Co. (a Bloomsbury imprint)
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Number of Pages: 272
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.
Student #1:
best book I’ve ever read. I absolutely LOVED this book it was the perfect
combination of mystery and romance. This book was a real page turner. Every
time I would stop I would wonder what was going to happen next. I think the
author did a really good job on detailing the scene so you could actually
imagine yourself in the part. I loved how the characters intertwined with each
other not just random characters like they all kind of had one little element that made them the same but they
were all unique. Also that she took a normal girl‘s life and just by making one
little adjustment it changed everything about how the reader read the book. I
would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mystery book. I give this
book five stars.
I love Fracture by Megan
Miranda. It literally felt as if I were in the book, feeling the character‘s
emotions. This story had the perfect combo of a thrilling romance mystery, with
a thickening plot. While reading this, I never really knew what to expect
because the main character, Delaney, was just thrown into this whole lifestyle
that seemed absolutely terrifyingly creepy.
Although
Delaney had become one of my favorite characters, there were some points in the
book where I just couldn’t stand her. Like when she befriended Troy. He was
just so creepy, how could you not sense the danger and trouble that would come
with him or when she got angry at Decker for dating someone else while she did
the same thing. Delaney’s mother was messed up too. She reminded me of a witch,
evil! I mean, who drugs their own child so they don’t wake up and have
‘hallucinations’, as she put it. Anyways, I would recommend this book to
someone who likes a good thrilling, mystery, romance book. I rate this novel
five stars.
Jillian, I'm so impressed with your students' thoughtful and honest comments. So cool that you posted them on your blog.