Bibliographic Citation
Miranda,
M. (2012). Fracture. New York, NY:
Walker Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 9780802723093. 262 p.
Summary
Eleven
minutes under a frozen pond. She should be dead. But 17 year-old Delaney
Maxwell survived and is living a normal life again. Until she starts feeling
strange pulling feelings inside her body and realizes she is drawn toward death.
She can’t tell her best friend and next door neighbor Decker, who was at the
pond with her, about her strange sensations, but she quickly realizes she isn’t
alone. A stranger named Troy comes to town and claims he can sense death too.
Who is Troy, where did he come from, and what is his agenda? Is Delaney sensing
death or causing it? She must make it through her senior year while struggling
to understand all that is happening around her.
Analysis
The
supernatural elements of Fracture
really drew me into the story and made me not want to put the book down. The
appearance of Troy also intrigued and scared me as much as he intrigued and
scared Delaney in the book. I enjoyed the friendship aspect of the relationship
between Delaney and Decker. I believed Delaney’s jealousy of Decker and Tara,
but I didn’t really buy her coldness to Decker afterwards. If their friendship
was strong enough, she wouldn’t have treated him that way. Other than that, I
thought this book was mysterious and entertaining. I enjoyed the fact that the
book is grounded in reality with a supernatural aspect. It makes the story seem
very believable. Fracture is Megan
Miranda’s first novel and I am anxious to see what she writes next. I would
recommend this book for any middle school or high school library.
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