Vengeance by Megan Miranda

Vengeance
Fracture #2
by Megan Miranda
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Walker Childrens (February 4, 2014)
Language: English
Falcon Lake wants vengeance. And so, it seems, does someone else . . . An intense, heart-rending psychological thriller to accompany the chilling and seductive Fracture.

When Decker drags his best friend Delaney’s lifeless body out of the frozen lake, he makes a deal: Anyone but her. Everyone but her. The lake releases her. It takes another . . .

All their friends blame Delaney for Carson’s death. But Decker knows the truth: Delaney is drawn to those who are dying, and she would have tried to help Carson.

Or so Decker believes until a body lies in front of him in a pool of water on his kitchen floor. Until he sees in Delaney’s eyes that she knew this would happen too – and she said nothing. Until he realises it isn’t the lake that is looking for revenge – Delaney is part of someone else’s plan.

Vengeance is the sequel to Megan Miranda's book Fracture.  While it is helpful to have read the earlier book, there is enough of the story in this book to let a new reader know what has happened.  The previous book was told from Delaney Maxwell's perspective while this one is told from Decker's.  Delaney has survived a fall through the ice and a week in a coma.  This tragedy was followed by the death of a classmate and another acquaintance.  Now everyone in town is wondering if Falcon Lake is cursed and what part Delaney's survival is playing in all this.  Decker is Delaney's next-door neighbor and boyfriend.  He loves and understands Delaney but when tragedy strikes his family he struggles to accept Delaney's part in it.

This book is part romance and part psychological thriller.  Is Falcon Lake trying to pull this group of friends back into the water or is there a more human answer?  I liked this book as much as I did the first one.  The characters are believable and likeable.  The story involves high school kids as well as their families and it held my interest from start to finish. 

Content:

There is quite a bit of language in the book.  There is drinking by students at a party.  The fact that some of the students are involved in sexual relationships is hinted at but never described.