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Showing posts with label Megan Miranda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Megan Miranda. Show all posts
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery, Thriller
Details: 336 pages, released February 5th 2013
Source: Netgalley
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Mallory killed her boyfriend, Brian. She can't remember the details of that night but everyone knows it was self-defense, so she isn't charged. But Mallory still feels Brian's presence in her life. Is it all in her head? Or is it something more? In desperate need of a fresh start, Mallory is sent to Monroe, a fancy prep school where no one knows her . . . or anything about her past.But the feeling follows her, as do her secrets. Then, one of her new classmates turns up dead. As suspicion falls on Mallory, she must find a way to remember the details of both deadly nights so she can prove her innocence-to herself and others.
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Mallory doesn’t remember what happened the night she killed her boyfriend Brian. The evidence shows it was in self-defense, but still her once loved town now hates her. To get away from everything, and get away from everyone that knows of her crime her parents send her away to her father’s old prep school, Monroe. Mallory just wishes none of this had happened, but to escape the memories of Brian and the glares from people in her town she agrees to go.Since Brian’s death Mallory has been losing her mind, she’s hearing things, things that she shouldn’t be. When a student at Monroe is murdered, everyone looks to Mallory. Now Mallory must find out what is going on at Monroe to clear her name, or possibly find out that the monster has been her all along.
Megan Miranda has done it again! Being a huge fan of Megan Miranda’s book Fracture I was immensely excited to pick up her novel Hysteria. While Hysteria didn’t quite live up to the expectations Fracture had set for it, it was still an enjoyable read that was well worth the hours I invested into it! The problems I had while reading Hysteria were how unlikable most of the characters were (including the main character Mallory) and how some moments throughout Hysteria felt very repetitive. Besides those two flaws, Hysteria was a great creepy, eerie, roller coaster of a read packed with plenty of mystery!
Now while most of the time I did not enjoy Mallory as a character, she was still so interesting to read from! I couldn’t imagine what she was going through, she couldn’t remember the night she killed Brian, most people in her town hate her now, her own mother is scared of her (mother hides the knife block), she’s being sent to private school, there was just so much going on in her life! There was some parts where I felt bad for Mallory, but I constantly felt conflicted whenever I felt bad for her. She killed someone, and even if the court says it was self-defense, the fact that Mallory herself worries she is guilty makes it hard as a reader to feel bad for her. I have never read a book that made me question how I feel about the main character so much, and that made this all the more of an enjoyable read. In this case the character that will steal the readers heart is most likely going to be Reid, Mallory’s love interest at Monroe, he is such a caring and helpful character that it was hard not to fall in love with him!
Overall if you’re looking for a YA rad that gives you chills, has a great mystery, and plenty of twists and turns, then I highly recommend picking up Hysteria by Megan Miranda.
Fracture by Megan Miranda
Available on Jan 17th- Ebook/Hardback
Find Fracture: Amazon . Amazon UK . TBD . B&N
Find Megan: Website . Twitter . Facebook . 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
—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?
—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?
“I don’t know wheatear you’re acting like this because you know I’m going to kiss you and you’re nervous or you know I’m going to kiss you and you don’t want me to.” ~Troy
Fracture by Megan Miranda is the first debut I have read in 2012, and what an amazing debut it was!
Delany has been under water for 11 minutes already by the time Decker pulls her out…she should’ve died, but instead she wakes up after being in a coma for 6 days, no brain damage, she is walking and talking just fine, but something changed in Delany..she is started to sense things, and this new found sense is going to change her life forever.
Megan’s writing and the way she captures everything literally took my breath away, I could really feel and see everything that Delany was perfectly. Megan is one of the best writers I have ever seen (read?) she is incredibly detailed, but never did I notice she was overly detailed, her words flowed amazingly, I read this book in one sitting and couldn’t believe I was already finished with it. The pages flowed that well! You just can’t help but keep turning the pages, every time I thought of taking a break my mind would scream at me “NO you must keep going! You can’t stop here!” This is writing at its finest people!
Along with Fracture being an amazing read due to Megan’s writing, it also had an amazing storyline. I personally have not read a book like this one and I found it insanely creative and captivating, I loved the idea. A girl falls into the ice, and 11 yeah you heard me right, ELEVEN minutes later is pulled out by her best friend Decker, she should be dead! Instead though she feels fine, except when she starts feeling the pull and the itch inside of her…then she feels anything but fine. This whole story was amazing from beginning to end.
Now about the characters, I loved them. Delany is so caring; you couldn’t help but love her and feel sorry for her! She goes through so many tough moments in her life, but she always stayed strong and tried to keep herself together, she was truly an inspiring character. Decker I adored, he is so sweet and such a great friend to Delany, I am so glad things ended the way they did for him and Delany. Then there was Troy…poor poor Troy, he was a character at first I didn’t know what to think of, I wasn’t sure if he was the good guy or the bad guy, and even now I don’t know what to think of him, I was confused by him at first, then I realized he was very mysterious and it was kind of hot, so I liked him! Then some things changed so I wasn’t sure about him, I think in the end he was a good guy, that just lost his mind. Those I believe were the three main characters and I loved each of them, the rest of the characters were also just as enjoyable (besides Tara, yuk!)
Overall Megan’s flawless writing, inspiring characters, and amazing storyline really made this a must read for anyone that well, loves to read! It is a YA novel, but it could easily be enjoyed by people that don’t normally read YA (it’s not your typical YA). Although I truly loved this book, I was upset about how something’s went, and I also believe if it were made into a series it would be even more amazing (maybe it will someday? Who knows!) None of the less though, Megan is an author that everyone needs to watch, she is an incredible writer and I cannot wait to see what she comes out with next cause I already know it will be phenomenal.
Don't forget to check out the Fracture facebook page for excerpts and information on where Megan will be touring this month!
I am giving away my ARC copy of Fracture that Bloomsbury gave me to go along with the blog tour, this giveaway is US only, and remember this is an ARC copy, not a final copy, my arc copy doesn't even have the cover art on it, it is plain blue and says Fracture on it. (: To enter al you have to do is leave a comment on this review and give me a way to contact you! (US ONLY!)
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