ReadOn Book Review by Kimberley S:

Fixing Delilah, by Sarah Ockler, is about a teenage girl named Delilah Hannaford who after her grandmother’s death, moves back for the summer to fix up all the loose ends. She leaves with her mum, who is a workaholic and has no time for Delilah and meets her aunt, who is a chef and a vegetarian. On her first day she meets an old childhood, Patrick, who plays music and helps his dad in the summer fix houses. There she re-meets everyone in a town she has not seen in over 8 years, deals with her grandmother’s death and finds out secrets about an aunt that died before she was born.

In this story I found all the characters interesting. They all added to the story in one way or another and gave tragedy and humour to it all. I found that the main character Delilah, very easy to relate to with her situation. I felt she along with another character needed to see in hindsight the big picture quicker than they did, but then the book would have been shorter. I found that I somewhat could predict the ending of the story, just small facts were wrong and one surprise I would have never guessed. The character, Patrick, was written in a fun way and makes the whole book much more enjoyable whenever he was in it. He was written with the problems a late high school early university student would face with his parents. The Hannaford family were written with many secrets which kept you guessing to find out if your theory was true or not. I found in total all the characters where fantastic and each covered a different problem which happens in our normal society.

If you like books that are humorous with some tragedy, then this is your book. This book is realistic, gets into the story almost straight away, and good quotes can be found through it all to keep you enjoying it. It had romance, ill-logical characters, smart wording and family fun and hate, if you enjoy these things then you will enjoy this book.

If you liked Beautiful Malice then you might like this book too.

One of my favourite quotes from this book is ‘If my words where feet, I would have tripped over them and broken both my legs.’ Delilah.

I rate this book 4/5 ReadOn Stars.

I recommend this book to teens/young adults.

Reviewed by:Kimberley S.