Fixing Delilah - Sarah Ockler

Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler
Date Released: December 1st 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320 pages
Format: Hardcover
Source: Borders

Summary

Things in Delilah Hannaford's life have a tendency to fall apart.

She used to be a good student, but she can't seem to keep it together anymore. Her "boyfriend" isn't much of a boyfriend. And her mother refuses to discuss the fight that divided their family eight years ago. Falling apart, it seems, is a Hannaford tradition.

Over a summer of new friendships, unexpected romance, and moments that test the complex bonds between mothers and daughters, Delilah must face her family's painful past. Can even her most shattered relationships be pieced together again?

Rich with emotion, Sarah Ockler delivers a powerful story of family, love, and self-discovery.

My Review:

Sarah Ockler is one of my all-time favorite authors, with just her first novel, she won me over, so I was supper exited to read Fixing Delilah, and it didn’t disappoint.

Fixing Delilah centers more on family relations, the responsibilities, troubles and joys that come with it, sometimes even secrets. The story follows Delilah Hannaford’s summer, and all the things she goes through: Love, Friendship, Family, Self-Discovery, and finding someone you thought you’d lost forever.

Delilah Hannaford was a character that I deeply enjoyed. I loved the way she changed through the course of the book. How everything between her family, relationships, and herself, get completely tangled up, and there seems to be no way out. No way to get rid of all those ties and knots that are making her life so complicated. To a point where she is so broken, so lost, that everything just, collapses; and she ruins her relationships and it seems that herself too. But Delilah, being a strong and beautiful character, grows, learns, and gets herself “fixed”.

Sarah Ockler is one of my all-time favorite authors, with just her first novel, she won me over, so I was supper exited to read Fixing Delilah, and it didn’t disappoint.

Fixing Delilah centers more on family relations, the responsibilities, troubles and joys that come with it, sometimes even secrets. The story follows Delilah Hannaford’s summer, and all the things she goes through: Love, Friendship, Family, Self-Discovery, and finding someone you thought you’d lost forever.

Delilah Hannaford was a character that I deeply enjoyed. I loved the way she changed through the course of the book. How everything between her family, relationships, and herself, gets completely tangled up, and there seems to be no way out. No way to get rid of all those ties and knots that are making her life so complicated. To a point where she is so broken, so lost, that everything just, collapses; and she ruins her relationships and it seems that herself too. But Delilah, being a strong and beautiful character, grows, learns, and gets herself “fixed”.

Every character was just beautiful in this story, and specially Patrick who’s just….just… *sigh*, yeah, he’s just that ♥. The scenario of the town, Luna’s coffee shop in which I’d LOVE to spend my summer, reading, drinking delicious chocolate hazelnut lattes… and hear Patrick sing… *sigh*…

What I learned from Fixing Delilah: Some question can’t or simply don’t have a logic answer, and that’s ok. You’ll screw up, BIG TIME, and you just have to learn, not to not screw-up, but to always get up. That you make terrible mistakes, mistakes that there’s no coming back from, but you would never change a thing, because what you’ve got, its worth it 100%. That family is complicated, but its all you’ve got. Friends are everywhere, you just need to look closely, and love always finds you, no matter how hard you hide. Oh! And, that we are not elephants (you’ll know what I mean ^^).

Even though Twenty Boy Summer keeps being my all-time favorite, Fixing Delilah got its room in my heart, a delightful summer novel, characters that became my family, and an incredible journey fixing Delilah. Fixing Delilah is a must-read summer book. Actually, it’s a must-read anytime. Any Sarah Ockler book is a must-read anytime actually xD!

"Oh, so you're untouchable, huh, Delilah? You and your fucked-up relationship with your mother and everyone else in your life? Great. Does getting pissed at me make it better? does it fix ANYTHING?"
"You! Can't! Fix! Me!"

"Doesn't matter how many people are in the crown anymore, Delilah. Ten or ten thousand, I'm still only singing for on"

"I take a deep breath,
count to ten
and bury it,
way down deep"