Fracture by Megan Miranda

After having drowned for 11 minutes, Delaney Maxwell is miraculously revived with no brain damage. In fact, she has just the opposite: a gift - or rather a curse - to sense when someone near her is about to die. Soon thereafter, she meets Troy Varga, a boy with an identical ability. Seemingly harmless and the only one capable of truly understanding what Delaney is going through, the two grow close. But something about Troy is a little bit fishy. Troy has another secret - one much more deadly than knowing when someone's about to die. But can Delaney change fate, especially when she can sense one of her friends is going to die?

Miranda crafted an interesting novel with some twists that, though foreseeable, still had me enraptured in her work. Overall, the book was fairly appropriate, with only a few scattered swear words. It's an easy read; I read it in one night (also credit to Miranda's skillful writing). The overall concept of the book, though explore in other pieces of literature, brought a fresh perspective to the idea of someone being able to sense death. We read stories about animals who have a gift similar to Delaney's, but it becomes so much more curious when it is a human who has been given this ability. I would definitely recommend this book, but it's not at the top of my list. Be warned, though; it is fairly chilling, and not just because Delaney was drowning in a frozen lake.

Happy readings!