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 h...
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Dec 27, 2011
Emily
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3.5
For the first 160 pages (approx) this book was just okay. I liked it, the ideas weren't particularly original but the writing was decent, the characters were not quite as annoying as some I've read recently... things were going well but I wasn't blown away either. It was a spooky, easy to read novel with a relationship that made me smile instead of the usual insta-love, overbearing melodrama I've come to expect.
But I had problems too with these first 160 pages. One charact More...
For the first 160 pages (approx) this book was just okay. I liked it, the ideas weren't particularly original but the writing was decent, the characters were not quite as annoying as some I've read recently... things were going well but I wasn't blown away either. It was a spooky, easy to read novel with a relationship that made me smile instead of the usual insta-love, overbearing melodrama I've come to expect.
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Jan 13, 2012
Giselle
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Delaney died, for 11 minutes she was under freezing water. Miraculously, she survived but now she can sense when someone is going to die. This concept is definitely intriguing. It was even moreso for me, who hadn't read the blurb in months and had no idea what I was getting into. Going in blind made Delaney's ability as much a mystery to me as it was to her. It was a lot of fun simply going with the flow - not knowing more than the characters for once.
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Jan 17, 2012
Christen a.k.a. Goldilox
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Gasp. I loved this book. Get it, read it, do it now!
Er...okay, let me back it up. Fracture is the story of what a teenage girl faces after surviving a near-death experience that really should have killed her. And, oh yeah, there's some paranormal stuff too.
Delaney Maxwell fell through the ice at a local pond in the middle of winter and it was eleven minutes before she was rescued by her best guy friend Decker. The story begins with Delaney waking up in the hospital and r More...
Er...okay, let me back it up. Fracture is the story of what a teenage girl faces after surviving a near-death experience that really should have killed her. And, oh yeah, there's some paranormal stuff too.
Delaney Maxwell fell through the ice at a local pond in the middle of winter and it was eleven minutes before she was rescued by her best guy friend Decker. The story begins with Delaney waking up in the hospital and r More...
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Feb 15, 2012
Jeannette (The Starry-Eyed Revue)
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This story was so unexpected and surprising. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that I almost didn’t even give it a try. I passed it up several times on Netgalley because I was afraid it would be too contemporary for my taste. I’m glad I did eventually read it, though, because it’s now going on my favorites sh More...
This story was so unexpected and surprising. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that I almost didn’t even give it a try. I passed it up several times on Netgalley because I was afraid it would be too contemporary for my taste. I’m glad I did eventually read it, though, because it’s now going on my favorites sh More...
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Sep 04, 2011
Arlene
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Rating Clarification: 2.5 stars but closer to 3
Lots of spoilers….
The average person can live 3 minutes without oxygen…. but Delaney Maxwell was stuck in a frozen lake for 11 minutes before her best friend Decker pulled her out and saved her life. She should not be alive, but she is however not without consequence. Her brain is significantly damaged, but she’s functioning at a normal rate except for the strange ability to tell when someone is about to die. Miracle or par More...
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The average person can live 3 minutes without oxygen…. but Delaney Maxwell was stuck in a frozen lake for 11 minutes before her best friend Decker pulled her out and saved her life. She should not be alive, but she is however not without consequence. Her brain is significantly damaged, but she’s functioning at a normal rate except for the strange ability to tell when someone is about to die. Miracle or par More...
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Jan 25, 2012
♥Rachel♥
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2.5 Stars
(last night I rounded down because I was cranky, today I'm rounding up)
I really wanted to like this book. The premise sounded so cool to me, eerie and suspenseful with a bit of romance thrown in. Unfortunately, after finishing this, I ended up being completely frustrated. I'm not saying there wasn't any good to this story, because there was, but to me the frustration overshadowed.
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(last night I rounded down because I was cranky, today I'm rounding up)
I really wanted to like this book. The premise sounded so cool to me, eerie and suspenseful with a bit of romance thrown in. Unfortunately, after finishing this, I ended up being completely frustrated. I'm not saying there wasn't any good to this story, because there was, but to me the frustration overshadowed.
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Feb 02, 2012
Mith
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Our story begins on a cold winter's day when seventeen-year old Delaney falls into a frozen lake through the thin ice and dies. For eleven minutes. Inexplicably, she wakes up in the hospital six days later from a coma, with no brain damage whatsoever.
But something has changed. Delaney can now feel when someone is dying. As her behaviour gets more erratic due to this "ability", it sends Delaney and her loved ones into downward spiral as all of them try to understand what is More...
But something has changed. Delaney can now feel when someone is dying. As her behaviour gets more erratic due to this "ability", it sends Delaney and her loved ones into downward spiral as all of them try to understand what is More...
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Jan 16, 2012
Heidi
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Three stars: A near death experience, leaves Delaney with a startling new supernatural ability.
Delaney bounds down the stairs, after wriggling into thermal wear, that has mysteriously shrunk since last year. Her best friend and next door neighbor, Decker is waiting for her. It is December in Maine, and the pair is headed to the ice crusted lake to spend an afternoon engaging in a game of "manhunt" in the snowy woods. Delaney slips into her bright red coat, she is going More...
Delaney bounds down the stairs, after wriggling into thermal wear, that has mysteriously shrunk since last year. Her best friend and next door neighbor, Decker is waiting for her. It is December in Maine, and the pair is headed to the ice crusted lake to spend an afternoon engaging in a game of "manhunt" in the snowy woods. Delaney slips into her bright red coat, she is going More...
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Jan 19, 2012
Tonya
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3 - 3.5 stars.
In Fracture, Delaney Maxwell falls through a patch of thin ice into the freezing waters of the lake below. While her friends are eventually able to pull her out, Delaney remained under the water for eleven minutes--seven minutes past the mark brain damage is known to occur. Despite being in a coma for several days with a bleak prognosis, Delaney wakes perfectly healthy... or so it seems. Her brain scans show massive areas of damage, but she exhibits no symptoms. Except f More...
In Fracture, Delaney Maxwell falls through a patch of thin ice into the freezing waters of the lake below. While her friends are eventually able to pull her out, Delaney remained under the water for eleven minutes--seven minutes past the mark brain damage is known to occur. Despite being in a coma for several days with a bleak prognosis, Delaney wakes perfectly healthy... or so it seems. Her brain scans show massive areas of damage, but she exhibits no symptoms. Except f More...
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Feb 03, 2012
Jennifer
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Eleven minutes of fun then deadly jazz hands.
Think about your favorite fictional characters, the ones you truly love, now consider for a moment what you like best about them. If you are like me, your fave characters are the ones that most seem like friends or that if they were real you'd be friends with them. You know stuff about them, the things they don't share with the world plus all the other stuff that makes them who they are; the style of shoe they'd buy at a sale, whether they'd More...
Think about your favorite fictional characters, the ones you truly love, now consider for a moment what you like best about them. If you are like me, your fave characters are the ones that most seem like friends or that if they were real you'd be friends with them. You know stuff about them, the things they don't share with the world plus all the other stuff that makes them who they are; the style of shoe they'd buy at a sale, whether they'd More...
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Feb 07, 2012
Full, non-spoiler review courtesy at Book & Movie Dimension a Blog
This is one novel that sure knows how to grab your attention in terms of suspense. In Fracture, Delaney Maxwell an average teen girl along with her best friend Decker are braving to cross a frozen lake while on a daily walk out during winter. Everything is going well when the ice cracks and Delaney shockingly spills through the fractures of this ripple in the lake. Delaney accounts to us in deep moments of deep despera More...
This is one novel that sure knows how to grab your attention in terms of suspense. In Fracture, Delaney Maxwell an average teen girl along with her best friend Decker are braving to cross a frozen lake while on a daily walk out during winter. Everything is going well when the ice cracks and Delaney shockingly spills through the fractures of this ripple in the lake. Delaney accounts to us in deep moments of deep despera More...
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Feb 06, 2012
Lecea
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I cannot believe Fracture is Miranda's first novel. Even though I read an ARC (with minimal typographical errors), the writing is so good, the facts about the brain and its mysteries well-researched.
Playing a game with her friends near Maine's lake, Delaney Maxwell slips and breaks through thin ice. She is technically brain dead, even as her best friend Decker pulls her from the water. According to the brain scans, she should have neither short-term nor long-term memory, yet she app More...
Playing a game with her friends near Maine's lake, Delaney Maxwell slips and breaks through thin ice. She is technically brain dead, even as her best friend Decker pulls her from the water. According to the brain scans, she should have neither short-term nor long-term memory, yet she app More...
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Jan 07, 2012
Lacey
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First Thoughts:
Wow, this book was intense; I loved almost everything about it; it was one hell of a ride…I loved it! The cover alone was what caused me to dive into this world and boy once I started I just couldn’t stop. I buckled in and finished it in one sitting.
This book definitely had a lot of great qualities to it, there hasn’t been a book like this for me in a while; the writing was so smooth and fun to read that I didn’t find myself struggling to read through the s More...
Wow, this book was intense; I loved almost everything about it; it was one hell of a ride…I loved it! The cover alone was what caused me to dive into this world and boy once I started I just couldn’t stop. I buckled in and finished it in one sitting.
This book definitely had a lot of great qualities to it, there hasn’t been a book like this for me in a while; the writing was so smooth and fun to read that I didn’t find myself struggling to read through the s More...
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Dec 19, 2011
Nafiza
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I know for certain that there will be lots of mixed reviews about Megan Miranda’s debut novel but for me, it was a strong five star novel and I don’t hand out five stars lightly. The book isn’t perfect but its strengths are such that they overshadow the lesser elements and make the reader, well, me, forget the imperfections exist.
The premise of the novel is intriguing and I felt that the execution stayed true to it. One of the strengths of the novels is its characterizations, the wa More...
The premise of the novel is intriguing and I felt that the execution stayed true to it. One of the strengths of the novels is its characterizations, the wa More...
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Jan 22, 2012
Jodi
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I read an ARC.
The premise intrigued me first. A girl drowns in a frozen lake. Eleven minutes later, she’s alive again. How? And then she’s drawn to dying people? FASCINATING.
Obviously, I was really looking forward to this book, hoping I’d love it.
I did.
FRACTURE is written in this smart, sparse style with sharp details that always fit exactly right. Seemingly effortlessly, the narrative brings Delaney’s world to life, revealing her town, hangouts, f More...
The premise intrigued me first. A girl drowns in a frozen lake. Eleven minutes later, she’s alive again. How? And then she’s drawn to dying people? FASCINATING.
Obviously, I was really looking forward to this book, hoping I’d love it.
I did.
FRACTURE is written in this smart, sparse style with sharp details that always fit exactly right. Seemingly effortlessly, the narrative brings Delaney’s world to life, revealing her town, hangouts, f More...
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Jan 23, 2012
Paola
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Fracture is a book that really has you thinking of what could happen. Delaney is a 17 year old girl that drowned in a icy lake. She was under there for eleven minutes until she was saved by her best friend. She was dead! She was brought to the hospital and was on life support and in a coma for 6 days when she woke up. You just need to read it for yourselves. Theres mystery with a guy named Troy that was also in a coma. Loss of her beloved friend Carson and the romance between her and her best fr
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Jan 11, 2012
Cassie
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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 find More...
-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 find More...
Jan 03, 2012
Reading
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This was really really good. I think that anyone who thought The Body Finder byKimberly Derting was good will really like this. It's not the same, but it is similar and different all at the same time. Just as enjoyable in terms of plot, theme and characterization. The only thing the Body Finder has that this lacks is a little more heat, if you know what I mean! ;)
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This was really really good. I think that anyone who thought The Body Finder byKimberly Derting was good will really like this. It's not the same, but it is similar and different all at the same time. Just as enjoyable in terms of plot, theme and characterization. The only thing the Body Finder has that this lacks is a little more heat, if you know what I mean! ;)
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Nov 05, 2011
Courtney
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I wasn't sure what to expect when I started reading FRACTURE, but I was captivated from the start. Delaney is such a believable character--she's smart, logical, practical, and sympathetic. When she dies in the lake that day, she is saved by her best friend, Decker. Decker and Delaney have been friends since they were five--always inseparable. After the accident, their relationship becomes strained by Delaney's new ability to sense death. Delaney starts to think everything in her life is falling
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Feb 22, 2012
P.M.
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Delaney died - stuck for 11 minutes under the ice of Falcon Lake in Northern Maine. When she wakes up in the hospital, her brain scan shows terrible damage - damage that doesn't seem to affect her - unless you count her ability to sense when someone is about to die. When she meets Troy, who has a similar ability, it feels like a match made in heaven. Not so quick! Troy resents the fact that he is still alive when all of his family died. His mission is now to help those who are terminal with no h
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Feb 14, 2012
Sofia
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I really enjoyed this book ^.^ There were a few pointless moments and the INNAPROPRIATE USE OF THE WORD IRONIC *collective gasp* so I've knocked off half a mark... otherwise it's amazing!
It starts off with the main character (Delaney) saying she should be dead. She was under the ice for 11 minutes... but a lot can happen in 11 minutes.
She's just snapped out of a coma. She was running across the ice on the lake, and fell... she should've drowned, or at least have permanent brain da More...
It starts off with the main character (Delaney) saying she should be dead. She was under the ice for 11 minutes... but a lot can happen in 11 minutes.
She's just snapped out of a coma. She was running across the ice on the lake, and fell... she should've drowned, or at least have permanent brain da More...
Feb 11, 2012
Jessica
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“Fracture” is as intense and compelling as it is quiet and introspective. Considering the topic and individual views on death, there’s a lot that readers will bring to the book, making it a unique experience.
I like that author Megan Miranda doesn’t give all the answers, and she’s not out to give readers THE best answer, just the solution that Delaney formulates. Paring down the scope has a personalizing effect lost in other books of this natur More...
“Fracture” is as intense and compelling as it is quiet and introspective. Considering the topic and individual views on death, there’s a lot that readers will bring to the book, making it a unique experience.
I like that author Megan Miranda doesn’t give all the answers, and she’s not out to give readers THE best answer, just the solution that Delaney formulates. Paring down the scope has a personalizing effect lost in other books of this natur More...
Feb 10, 2012
Sam
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When I saw the age group of which people are recommended to read, I was rather surprised when I saw that it was for 12 and up. There are instances where the characters cuss at one another, and I think that language is a continuously controversial issue when choosing the appropriate age group.
When I read the back, it compelled me to read it, as did my friends. Upon reading it, I found that the writing language was rather simplistic, but I think that was sort of a good thing, because a More...
When I read the back, it compelled me to read it, as did my friends. Upon reading it, I found that the writing language was rather simplistic, but I think that was sort of a good thing, because a More...
Feb 08, 2012
Paula
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Don't you hate it when you read books , that you hold high expectations for and in a way when they don't measure up it can be a tad disappointing. For me Fracture , was half/half. After seeing it quite alot on the blogosphere , I thought OMG I have to add that to my TBR List and when it arrived at the library, I got it immediately. This book as I was reading it though in parts , I really enjoyed it as we watched the main character Delaney fall through the ice and was under for eleven minutes in
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Feb 06, 2012
Priya
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In a lot of the best books I've read, there's one main character that always ends up jolting me: Death. Same is true of 'Fracture'. It's about a girl who has a near fatal accident, but miraculously survives, despite severe brain damage. She seems perfectly normal, but deep down something has changed in her. She can sense when someone is dying.
I'm told this is the author's debut novel. For a first-timer, Megan Miranda has got it mostly right. I personally found the young-adult part of t More...
I'm told this is the author's debut novel. For a first-timer, Megan Miranda has got it mostly right. I personally found the young-adult part of t More...
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Feb 06, 2012
Susan
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Seventeen year old Delaney Maxwell fell through the ice and was under the water for eleven minutes before her best friend Decker managed to save her life. After eleven long minutes, she should be dead. Surely no one could survive that long without oxygen, but she does. She is in a comma and awakes with no signs of injury, shocking doctors. However, she isn't the same person she was before the accident. She has a sixth sense for when people are going to die. People around her think she is going c
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Feb 04, 2012
cecilia
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The number 11 seems to be a magical number, and when Delaney miraculously survives 11 minutes of ice-cold death, surely nothing would ever be the same. Her best friend Decker keeps his distance, even though it is obvious that their friendship had been on the edge of something more. Her parents, still in shock of almost losing their daughter, keep a close eye on Delaney to make sure nothing else goes wrong. And all Delaney wants is to feel normal again, but something dark haunts the recesses of h
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Feb 03, 2012
Rhiannon
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Turns out potential jury duty was good for one thing (other than lots of stress and exhaustion. Spending all day sweating bullets and thinking *notmenotmenotme* in a never ending chant is the most exhausting thing I've done in awhile), it was really good for getting some reading done. Two and a half books in 4 days, and only one of them was a full 8 hour day. So during the rush out the door on day two I decided to grab from my January pile of BEA treats, as a reward for my quietly being tortu
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Feb 02, 2012
Christin
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Really 3.5 stars
The idea that someone could clinically die and still return to life has always been intriguing to me. Would that person see the world differently? How would their life change? Fracture explores some of these questions in a perhaps unexpected way.
Delaney Maxwell spends eleven minutes trapped in an icy lake before she is rescued. Miraculously, she makes a full recovery from her coma, yet her MRI shows that something isn't right with certain areas of her brai More...
The idea that someone could clinically die and still return to life has always been intriguing to me. Would that person see the world differently? How would their life change? Fracture explores some of these questions in a perhaps unexpected way.
Delaney Maxwell spends eleven minutes trapped in an icy lake before she is rescued. Miraculously, she makes a full recovery from her coma, yet her MRI shows that something isn't right with certain areas of her brai More...
Feb 02, 2012
Ivy
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Fracture has an interesting plot and is enjoyable, however, it’s not a book for me. It’s not for me because it’s a psychological thriller. Usually I am not so much interested in psychological thrillers, but I found the synopsis for Fracture interesting, thus I decided to read and review it.
I found most of the characters in this book a little weird, but I really did like Decker and I felt that he was the most normal out of this whole book. The main character is Delaney who had a near de More...
I found most of the characters in this book a little weird, but I really did like Decker and I felt that he was the most normal out of this whole book. The main character is Delaney who had a near de More...
