This giveaway is over.
I reviewed Megan Miranda's Fracture a couple of weeks ago, and it's no secret that I didn't really love it. (I know, I know i- it's not an ACTUAL love triangle!) However, plenty of my other bloggers have loved it - and just because it wasn't my thing doesn't mean y'all won't love it! Besides, I love giving you all a chance to win. No hating here!
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?
But before that, Megan Miranda herself offered to answer a few questions for you lovely people!
Nicole: Welcome to WORD, Miranda! Now, I've already read Fracture, and though I love the premise, I didn't really like the love triangle. (Or how important the summary of the novel makes the love triangle seem!) What made you write that into the story?
MM: Interesting question. Mostly because, at the core, the relationships weren’t written into a pre-existing plot. I started off with a premise and characters, but there was nothing that held it all together. so the external plot was developed around something very essential in the relationships. Well, around one of them...
Anyway, that’s not to say that there isn’t a triangle in the story, though it definitely isn’t necessarily about love. There are two guys, and they are both interested in Delaney, in varying degrees. And she in them, in varying degrees. The why is pretty much essential to the plot—both internal and external. Why are they drawn to her, and her to them? For the internal plot, it goes to love, yes, but, externally, it goes to the entire crux of the plot, as well. Part of which has a fairly distinct lack of love.
N: Which one of the boys would you pick?
MM: I promise I’m not trying to be evasive (I don’t want to spoil anything!), but, like I alluded to in the last question, there aren’t necessarily two viable options for Delaney in the story. I will say this: I assure you that there will be absolutely zero doubt in your mind which I would pick after you read it. Promise.
N: I have a feeling it's the same person I would pick - though I'm certain that there are some who might argue for the other side! Do you think your reaction would be similar to Delaney's if you woke up from a coma with the ability to sense when people will die?
MM: Well, I’m... out-spoken. I understand Delaney, but if it were me, I’d be shouting about it to anyone who would listen. But I do think it would affect me in the way that it comes to affect her: are you doing what you want to be doing? Are you living your life? What will you do with the time you have?
N: What are some of the other debut novels you're looking forward to this year?
MM: I’ve already read some fantastic ones! Slide by Jill Hathaway, Tempest by Julie Cross, Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi, Ditched by Robin Mellom, just to name a few.
And I know, I know - I had four copies up for givaway during Debut December, and now I'm giving away another one!? Don't worry, it's not just me - the lovely people over at Bloomsbury just really like you guys!
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