Fracture (Fracture Series #1)

by Megan Miranda

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802734310
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	01/29/2013
Series:	Fracture Series , #1
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

MEGAN MIRANDA is the acclaimed author of Fracture, Vengeance, and Hysteria. She spends a great deal of time thinking about the “why” and “how” of things, which leads her to get carried away daydreaming about the “what-ifs.” She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two young children.

Visit Megan online at www.meganmiranda.com and on Twitter at @MeganLMiranda.

Editorial Reviews

Miranda's debut is a captivating and intelligent story of love and death with a dash of the supernatural. . . . A haunting meditation on what it means to be human and to truly live.” —starred review, Publishers Weekly

“Readers will find Delaney delightfully genuine and her story compelling. Put this in the hands of fans of Gayle Forman's If I Stay and Where She Went. ” —VOYA

“[A] thrilling paranormal romance.” —Kirkus Reviews

“The realistic mystery wrapped in an eerie supernatural atmosphere will appeal to fans of both genres.” —Kirkus Reviews on VENGEANCE

“Miranda keeps readers guessing in a heavily atmospheric, spooky novel.” —The Horn Book on VENGEANCE

“An atmospheric thriller, ripe with tension.” —Kirkus Reviews on HYSTERIA

“Tightly balanced between can't-put-it-down drama and realism, the cherry on top is Miranda's wry writing . . . it all feels fresh, addicting, and smart.” —VOYA on HYSTERIA

From the Publisher

…a compelling medical thriller-cum-romance that proves to be surprisingly life-affirming…The science angle gives this mystery a fresh, intriguing twist, and Delaney's intelligent first-person voice and sensitive reflections deepen it.
—The Washington Post

Mary Quattlebaum

Eleven full minutes pass before 17-year-old Delaney's best friend Decker pulls her from beneath the ice of a northern Maine lake. Can she recover from the bizarre results of her long period without oxygen? Or, perhaps more importantly, can their relationship, evolving from being soul mates for years toward being romantically involved, survive? Even though the doctors say Delaney should be severely brain damaged, the only aftereffect she can discover is that she's suddenly aware of--and irresistibly drawn to--those around her who are about to die. It's through that fixation that she meets handsome, intriguing Troy, who seems to share her new compulsion, but he has dark, disturbing secrets in connection to it. Delaney's mother begins an emotional disintegration that results in her trying to keep the teen drugged with sedatives, adding an unnecessary complication to the plot, and Decker becomes involved with another girl, leaving Delaney no one to confide in. Her first-person narration and her issues with Decker largely ring true, but her mother's problems feel contrived. Teetering between tired, predictable romance and edgy thriller, the breathlessly scary moments of this effort provide sufficient pizzazz to keep the plot moving forward, even though it's sometimes bogged down by Delaney's too-trite soul searching. An occasionally thrilling paranormal romance with enough spellbinding incidents to overcome the clichéd components. (Paranormal romantic thriller. 11 & up)

Kirkus Reviews