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This gripping conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crank trilogy features a refreshed look and a trade paperback trim size.
Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.
Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father’s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother’s notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together—Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle.
Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family’s story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person’s problem.
Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.
Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father’s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother’s notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together—Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle.
Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family’s story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person’s problem.
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This gripping conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crank trilogy features a refreshed look and a trade paperback trim size.
Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.
Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father’s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother’s notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together—Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle.
Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family’s story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person’s problem.
Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.
Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father’s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother’s notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together—Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle.
Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family’s story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person’s problem.
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Fantastic conclusion to the Crank trilogy. This book really shows how drug use hurts not only you, but those around you.
Rating: 5Not quite as good as the two in series before it, in my opinion. I really feel like there should have been another book between "Glass" & "Fallout". From where "Glass" left off and "Fallout" picked up, there's years and years of a gap in the story and I found myself wanting to, (Needing to) know what all we missed in those years?? When "Glass" ended I found myself so eager to know what happens with Kristina next, I couldn't wait to begin reading "Fallout", only to be totally let down. The story did not pick up nor sum up where we were left at! This really confused me, puzzled me, and kind of ticked me off all at once! The books are great, all of Ellen Hopkins books are great.. besides the annoying layouts of text, lol but I really wish she would've added another book between Glass and Fallout to fill in that 15+ year gap! But all in all I'd have to say it was a great, edge of your seat, nail biting story!
Rating: 4
I am always a fan of how she writes, and how she weaves stories, as the last of the Crank series, I had to read and catch up.
I did not mind the POV switches, the fonts were a bit more annoying than the switches, and some times they'd blur, especially when romance was what all three were looping around, and none of the kids seemed to have had a good romance going on at all.
The biggest flaw of this series is stated by the writer herself. She stated she could have written ten books about Kristina's fall, and yet she only wrote two, and one about the kids. That is where this series ends on a let down, there is so much between book two and book three left in the air and a mess that it comes in as a time skip and the kids talking more about their mom than their mom talks -or appears- the whole book. It pulls back, it rips you from the deepest depths some lines hold you upon, as soon as Kristina is spoken about, she's been barely there.
Worse is if you read these books as they came out and years have put gaps in your memory of Kristina, she's a background character in this book, when she was the focus. It makes her kids feel very cruel towards her for reasons beyond she was never their mother in the parent sense.
The ending is flubbed some, it's not an ending(spoiler for anyone who's never read a Hopkins book), it's an allusion to a conclusion. But this one feels like forgiveness where it should not be. It reads angry, but forgiving. There's no reason for them to forgive the monster that has ruined their lives, and there's the problem. This series needed two more, maybe three more books. One more before this, and maybe one more after. Without that, it comes off as almost empty. A farewell, not a goodbye, no see you later, just a loud booming "there's the door, see your way out"
Rating: 3I did not mind the POV switches, the fonts were a bit more annoying than the switches, and some times they'd blur, especially when romance was what all three were looping around, and none of the kids seemed to have had a good romance going on at all.
The biggest flaw of this series is stated by the writer herself. She stated she could have written ten books about Kristina's fall, and yet she only wrote two, and one about the kids. That is where this series ends on a let down, there is so much between book two and book three left in the air and a mess that it comes in as a time skip and the kids talking more about their mom than their mom talks -or appears- the whole book. It pulls back, it rips you from the deepest depths some lines hold you upon, as soon as Kristina is spoken about, she's been barely there.
Worse is if you read these books as they came out and years have put gaps in your memory of Kristina, she's a background character in this book, when she was the focus. It makes her kids feel very cruel towards her for reasons beyond she was never their mother in the parent sense.
The ending is flubbed some, it's not an ending(spoiler for anyone who's never read a Hopkins book), it's an allusion to a conclusion. But this one feels like forgiveness where it should not be. It reads angry, but forgiving. There's no reason for them to forgive the monster that has ruined their lives, and there's the problem. This series needed two more, maybe three more books. One more before this, and maybe one more after. Without that, it comes off as almost empty. A farewell, not a goodbye, no see you later, just a loud booming "there's the door, see your way out"
I want to punch that Hunter kid in the face.
Rating: 4It's written as poetry, though easy to read straight through like prose, without being bothered by the funky line breaks - just remember to read each section's title, as they play into the following poetry. The book is told from three teenagers' points of view. All of them have the same mother, who is a meth addict, and all of them live in different places, with different relatives. They all struggle with their own various addictions in varying stages. There are news stories interspersed throughout the book, which I guess are supposed to ground the reader and give extra information, but they just confused me. I got very swept up in trying to figure out who was each kid's father, and how/when they were with the mother, and how the kids' guardians related to the mother and fathers. The mother apparently went by different names in different times of her life, and the fathers' names were all typical, unremarkable boys' names, and the news stories just added even more names to the pile.
If you ignore all of the name/genealogy/paternity/guardianship issues, the book is really fascinating. It's an interesting approach to addiction - seeing how one affects many. Even so, there's no real resolution to the book - no one changes, no one learns anything. As much as I'll accept that as an ending for a short story, it's harder to swallow after investing so much in a novel - especially a novel tackling something as big as a meth addiction, when the stakes are so high. It is apparently the end of a trilogy which began with the mother as a teenager, so going back to read those might clarify a lot of character questions.
Rating: 3If you ignore all of the name/genealogy/paternity/guardianship issues, the book is really fascinating. It's an interesting approach to addiction - seeing how one affects many. Even so, there's no real resolution to the book - no one changes, no one learns anything. As much as I'll accept that as an ending for a short story, it's harder to swallow after investing so much in a novel - especially a novel tackling something as big as a meth addiction, when the stakes are so high. It is apparently the end of a trilogy which began with the mother as a teenager, so going back to read those might clarify a lot of character questions.
It went slower than the other two books. I guess it wasn’t as interesting reading the aftermath of meth babies, as opposed to the actual facets of addiction. I did make it through the book in a week and it was okay.
Rating: 3The last piece in the Crank series, is written from the main character's children's point of view. It gives the reader a better understanding of what happened along the way and where the main character is now. The final book is just as intense as the previous books. Therefore, it is also not suitable for young readers, but rather older teens and adults.
Rating: 4Excellent end to the Crank trilogy told from the perspective of meth user Kristina's three oldest children. It is a powerful tale of how one person's choices can profoundly alter the lives of others.
Rating: 5In the third book loosely based on her daughter, Kristina’s, addiction to methamphetamine, Hoskins elucidates the thoughts and feelings of three of Kristina’s teenage children. In alternating chapters, Hunter, Summer and Autumn let us into their lives and tell us how “the Monster” has affected them. A couple of them even struggle with addiction themselves. Hopkins’ signature free-verse style is again evident here, but this becomes confusing, particularly when switching between narrators. It was a more effective style when the narrator was high all the time, really reflective of the disjointed thinking that happens when one is using, but with the three (mostly sober) teens, it makes them come off as more flighty and sparse than they really are. I suppose one can’t just change one’s entire writing style now, though. It was interesting to see how Kristina’s kids grew up and to find out more about what Kristina herself is up to, and I think readers would welcome more in this series. However, as these real-life kids grow up, they might not welcome their grandmother’s (though fictionalized) forays into their souls.
Rating: 4This is the last book of the Crank series. They take you on quite a ride. It is like seeing the affects of meth up close. Ellen Hopkins has a very unique and enjoyable writing style. In This third book You are really seeing everything through Kristinas 3 older children's eyes. It was interesting to see how much had changed since the ending of book 2. I enjoyed the pace of the book, I also really like that your seeing things not only through Hunters eyes but also summer and autumn. This was just a really good read, I would recommend this as a read along with the first 2. : )
Rating: 4This novel-in-verse is the last of a trilogy about the ravages of methamphetamine addiction. In the first two books, Crank and Glass, we follow Kristina in her life on and off this drug. In this book we meet the three oldest of her children and see what their life is like as they make their ways to their grandmother's house for Christmas.As they travel, they wonder how much of what they've been going through is just stuff or something dumped on them by their mother's action.While this book could stand alone, I recommend you read one or both of the first two to better understand.
Rating: 4Fallout is the last book in the Crank and Glass trilogy, and picks up 19 years after Glass left off. It tells the stories of Kristina's three oldest children - Hunter, Autumn, and Summer - now in their teens, as they uncover secrets and stories from their past while dealing with their own issues.Of the three books in this trilogy, I think this one was the most powerful. I could really see pieces of Kristina in each of the three children as they dealt with their own issues, like Hunter who struggles to be faithful to his girlfriend, Autumn who is filled with questions about the family she's never known and who struggles with an alcohol addiction, and Summer who bounces around foster homes while being exposed to abusive situations.I had many questions in the beginning about what had happened to Kristina and everyone involved in her life, and as I kept reading, the answers were revealed slowly. It was a bit hard for me to follow three alternating viewpoints at first, but then I got used to it and realized that it was a perfect way to write the last book, as it pretty much ties up everything from the previous ones. Just like all of Hopkins' other books, it's written in the form of stunning poetry with different patterns indicating the feelings of the characters and many hidden messages sprinkled throughout. I'm sad to see the series end, but I definitely recommend Fallout to anyone who has enjoyed the first two books in the series, or even those new to Hopkins' writing, because it is a story that you will definitely never forget once you've read it.
Rating: 5The final book to Ellen Hopkins trilogy Crank and told from three of Kristina's childrens' perspectives, it tells the story of how children of addicts usually struggle to break the cycle. The ending of this book was sad and unexpected and from the very moment I picked this book up, I was unable to put it down. I'd defintley recommend this book to anyone.
Rating: 5i hate books that make me angry.i would be made at my mother to if this were me but at the same time, they never gave their mom a break. they always looked at it in there shoes and never tried on hers. they always assumed and ended up being selfish in their thinking.at the end off the book were its all three of them saying that they see their selves in the book so true. you will see a piece of Kristina in each of the three main kids in the book. you see the mean in Kristina when it comes to Hunter. you see the naive and vulnerable in Autumn and you see the wanting to feel loved and to be in love and happy in Summer.you also get to see how their lives ended up because of their mothers choices. and the choices that they made because of that. the anger, hurt, sorrow, independence, strength, and willingness that they have.
Rating: 4I absolutely love Ellen Hopkins' books. They put me in a trance in a way that makes me refuse to stop reading them. All of her books are about substance abuse and the struggles that go along with it. The trilogy beginning with Crank is based on a true story which all were very compelling for me. These books are very intense, but I would recommend them to anyone (older than like 15) looking for a great book to read.
Rating: 4Summer, Hunter, and Autumn all have the same mom. They are all children of diffrent fathers. Hunter knows about all of his sibling. Summer and Autumn bith don't know about their other siblings. All of them have to deal with who their mom is and why life is the way it is.
Rating: 4I saw a blurb that I can't currently locate via google that Hopkins may be the most popular living poet. From the CRANK trilogy, my sense is that she's a very good poet and a great storyteller, combining the two skills into devastating verse narratives. FALLOUT is my favorite of the trilogy: just as CRANK is much more than a cautionary CMA/NA tale, FALLOUT is much more than an Al-Anon narrative. With three interwoven first-person accounts, Hopkins does much more than reveal the personal fallout of being born to a meth-addict, she crafts a powerful story of three fascinating characters and their parallel efforts to find meaning, love, and connection in a broken jigsaw world. I loved this book: it transported me out of a day of flu and made me forget my aches and pains.
Rating: 5Grades 10and higherFallout is the third and final book for the Crank series. Fallout continues on from the book Glass but year later. It is written from the perspective of Kristina's three oldest children. Hunter, 19 years old, her oldest son lives with Kristina's parents who he calls mom and dad. Autumn, 17 years old, is second oldest and lives with her aunt and grandpa. Summer 15 years old, is third oldest and has a life completely different from her brother and sister. Fallout gives us a look at the lives of these three teenagers and their families. It also shows how Crystal Meth affects their mother, fathers, and personal relationships. If you have not read the other two books in the series you will not feel felt out. Fallout does a great job of filling in the information needed to understand the lives of the other families. Fallout is written to give you the most information with little words. I love when the words creates a picture that ties to the writing. For a much older audience since the issues that are addressed in the book are about sex and drugs. It also contains strong language.
Rating: 5This is a very worthy ending to the Kristina trilogy. It was interesting to watch Hunter, Autumn and Summer's lives intertwine and grow closer to each other, and altogether this is an excellent portrait of the far-reaching consequences of drug addiction. Plus, you've got Ellen Hopkins's trademark wunnerful guy and some very good poetry -- though, in my opinion, none of the post-Crank verses were as good as in the first book.The book could stand on its own, I think. However, the newspaper articles aren't going to make a lot of sense if the reader hasn't previously read Crank and Glass, and knowing the backstory makes for a better reading experience. So, yeah, read them all in order.Anyway, WIN.
Rating: 5Fallout is the third book in the Crank series. For those of you who have dutifully read Crank and Glass, you may be sad to learn that Kristina is not the central character in this last book. Instead, this poignant third book revolves around Kristina's three oldest children: Hunter, Summer, and Autumn.Though Kristina's story is no longer the focus of this story, she is everywhere. She is present in the shattered lives that she created in her drug-induced haze. She's present in the addictive personalities and in the poor choices her children make while searching for someone to care for them. She's there when they are trying to make it through the day-to-day struggles that are sometimes too much to bare.I love that Ellen Hopkins took Kristina and put her in the background. As every family member, friend, or lover of an addict knows, the person with a drug habit is not the only one to suffer the consequences of a drug affair. Certainly, Kristina's children have done well to overcome the huge obstacles placed in their way by their never-there mother, but this book also shows just how deeply these children are scarred because of their parents' choices.I can think of no better book to offer to a student or adult child who is dealing with a family member or loved one who is lost to drugs. I know that I have several students who are already clamoring to read this book. I don't blame them. The narrative verse in this book is outstanding. It is sure to pull in even the most reluctant of readers. I have already ordered an extra copy for my classroom. I have a feeling that I'm going to need it.
Rating: 5I don't know how to put into words what I feel about these books. They are so powerful that I know I just can't do this review the justice it deserves. I stay so emotionally wrecked while reading these books that it takes me a couple days to recover. Fallout was no exception. It had me laughing, crying, and shaking with anger in the span of only a few pages. In CRANK and GLASS we go through teenage Kristina's dance with "the monster", meth. We see her spiral deeper and deeper into addiction. When reading these two books from Kristina's point of view you just can't help but feel sorry for her, feel like it's not all her fault. But, while reading Fallout, which is from the point of view of her 3 teenagers, we see the fallout of Kristina's addiction of a completely different point of view. I found myself hating that same girl that I once felt sorry for. How dare she keep doing the things she's doing when she has these wonderful children that she should be living her life for?We learn that her amazing mother has been through so much for her and that she could have gotten help, if she would have just reached out and accepted when it was offered to her time and time again. I don't know how anyone could read these books and even consider trying drugs afterward. Once you see how one person's addiction can spiral out of control and affect so many peoples lives.These books should be required reading in every high school across the country in my opinion! Don't ban it, celebrate it! I suggest all of my readers who haven't read this series yet run out and buy it right now!!! What are you waiting for?
Rating: 5This is the rare trilogy where each book is better than the one before. In this, the story is narrated by Kristina’s three oldest children. Hunter is now in college, in a great relationship that he keeps risking. Autumn (who Kristina was pregnant with at the end of Glass) is living with her grandfather and aunt and Summer goes from foster home to foster home, with occasional stints living with her dad and his latest girlfriend. The three aren’t close (Autumn doesn’t even know she has siblings) but all are affected by Kristina and drugs to varying degrees.While the first two books show the impact that drugs have on the people who use them, Fallout shows the collateral damage. While all three of the kids have people who love them, they’re also unsure of themselves and their place in the world. And while yes, I will agree that that’s a big part of being a teenager anyway, it’s also because they grew up (to varying degrees) not knowing much about their parents in general and mother in particular. (Hunter knows the most because he was raised by his maternal grandparents.)While we don’t see much of Kristina in this book, she’s still all over the narratives, because of the damage she’s wrought in the lives of the people who love her, even as they can’t trust her.One device I really enjoyed was the fact that there were little newspaper clippings interspersed throughout the book, so we got to see what happened to some of the minor characters in earlier books. These books are highly recommended. What I don’t recommend is reading them in a row like I did.
Rating: 5