Fracture

Fracture
Megan Miranda
Published January 17th 2012 by Walker Childrens
284 pages

Summary (from Goodreads):

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?

Review
I recieved an ebook sampler containing the first chapter of this book and wow, was I hooked. Delaney Maxwell falls through the thin ice of a lake and is underwater for 11 minutes before she's rescued. But miraculously, after 6 days she's awake and fully functional out of a coma. A modern medical miracle.
But is she alright? You follow Delaney through what her doctors and parents call "hallucinations" where she feels a pull towards people for some reason and the mysterious shadow figures she sees when she follows these pulls.

I liked the relationship between Delaney and her friend Decker, mostly because there was a lot of character developement between the two. Delaney has to deal with very real problems after her stint at the hospital, mainly trying to get her life back into the normal pattern it was in before she died and came back. Her relationship with Decker, her relationship with her mother and father, and he relationship with this mysterious man Troy Varga, that knows about her and almost died from a coma as well.

For a debut novel, this one was a good read. It hooked me from the very beginning, and while some parts of the book felt lacking or the pacing a little slow, I ultimately wanted to know what would happen so I kept reading.

If you like darker stories, I would definitely recommend Fracture. This might also be a good read for reluctant readers because it is rather short and does a great job of catching the reader's attention from the beginning.

3.5/5