{"id":8767,"date":"2021-08-09T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=8767"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:52:21","slug":"vault-review-crank-by-ellen-hopkins-1-crank-2-glass-3-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/vault-review-crank-by-ellen-hopkins-1-crank-2-glass-3-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"Vault Review: Crank by Ellen Hopkins (#1 Crank, #2 Glass, #3 Fallout)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Boxed<\/a> \u00a0The Crank Trilogy\u00a0<\/em>by Ellen Hopkins (\u00a0 Bookshop.org<\/a>\u00a0| Amazon.com )<\/a><\/p>\n

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We are revisiting our reviews of the\u00a0Crank\u00a0<\/em>trilogy today, due to a recent challenge to\u00a0Crank<\/em> in my own school district (you never REALLY think it will happen in your area until it does).\u00a0 Yesterday we published an interview<\/a> of Ellen Hopkins from our vault, which I hope you’ll read. Today, we present our reviews of\u00a0The Crank Trilogy<\/em>, consisting of\u00a0Crank, Glass,\u00a0<\/em>and Fallout.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Crank\u00a0<\/em>by Ellen Hopkins<\/p>\n

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010 (Reprint edition)<\/p>\n

ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-1416995135<\/p>\n

Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook. (\u00a0Bookshop.org<\/a> |\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n

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Crank\u00a0<\/em>is Ellen Hopkins’ controversial, and sorely needed, verse novel. Kristina Snow\u2019s life changes forever when her father and the boy she’s crushing introduce her to meth. Unlike\u00a0Impulse, which is raw and shredding in its emotion,\u00a0Crank<\/em> is almost cold at times, brutally showing a girl on the edge of being a woman, who should have the kind of life that discourages drug use, choosing to ride with the monster time after time. Likewise, the people in her life who should be able to step in, fail, leaving Kristina alone to fight a beast that defeats most adults.<\/p>\n

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Crank<\/em> is a difficult book to handle, but it’s far closer to reality than any drug awareness program I went through in school. Hopkins\u2019 books are strongly positioned to be of great value as fiction, as poetry, and for their educational value, as they boldly strip away pretenses and sensitivities to show addiction as the cruel master it is. Highly recommended for public collections as well as recommended reading material for those whose lives have been scarred by the real life monsters on our streets.<\/p>\n

Contains: sex, language, drug use, rape<\/p>\n

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Glass\u00a0<\/em>by Ellen Hopkins<\/p>\n

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009 (Reprint edition)<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1416940913<\/p>\n

Available: New and Used\u00a0 (\u00a0Bookshop.org<\/a> |\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n

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Glass\u00a0<\/em>is the direct follow up to\u00a0Crank<\/em>.\u00a0Glass\u00a0<\/em>continues the story of Kristina Snow after she’s had her baby, and kicked meth and nicotine, shortly before her eighteenth birthday. It follows her relapse in her struggle with the meth monster and goes farther than\u00a0Crank\u00a0<\/em>imagined. Sharp and painful, \u00a0Glass<\/em> is hard to read. For one, Kristina seems to not even care that she’s making such horrible mistakes. Almost on autopilot in her quest to fill simple needs, this reader more than once wanted to reach into the lines and try to shake some sense into her.<\/p>\n

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While\u00a0Crank\u00a0<\/em>goes very far to combat drug use as an introductory tale, Glass<\/em> is Anti-Drug 201, a hardcore look at more of the nasty side effects of addiction, as good as an uncut marathon of Intervention<\/em> with viewers thrust, uncomfortably, inside Kristina’s head. There’s no doubt it will be too much for many readers, either too brutal, or too close to home. Hopkins savagely slices through any illusions of \u201cnormal life\u201d with beautiful poems and style that makes the story she’s telling all the more horrific. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n

Contains: sex, drug use, language, domestic violence<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Michele Lee<\/p>\n

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Fallout<\/em> by Ellen Hopkins<\/p>\n

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1416950097<\/p>\n

Available: New and Used\u00a0 (\u00a0\u00a0Bookshop.org<\/a>\"\" |\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0Fallout<\/em>, the third book in the series that started with\u00a0Crank<\/em>,\u00a0centered on meth addict Kristina Snow, Hopkins moves on to show the effect Kristina’s selfish ways still have on her children, and covers a wide spectrum of emotional and psychological problems.\u00a0Fallout\u00a0is told through three narrators: Hunter, Kristina’s first child, born of rape and trying to deal with rage; Autumn, who struggles with OCD and turns to alcohol to get her through a major life change; and Summer, who is unaware that she has siblings, and has been raised by a series of abusive foster homes and her own addict father.<\/p>\n

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Fallout<\/em>\u00a0is raw, as can be expected from Hopkins, sharp and yet beautiful as well. Hopkins manages to bring new sympathy to the subject, even to characters readers are already familiar with and have started to hate. While the full scope of the story would be missed if readers started the series here, this is the book that will most call to the loved one or friend struggling to support (or justify not supporting) an addict. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n

Contains: drug use, sex, language<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Michele Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The Crank Trilogy\u00a0by Ellen Hopkins (\u00a0 Bookshop.org\u00a0| Amazon.com )   We are revisiting our reviews of the\u00a0Crank\u00a0trilogy today, due to a recent challenge to\u00a0Crank in my own school district (you never REALLY think it will happen in your area until it does).\u00a0 Yesterday we published an interview of Ellen Hopkins from our vault, which I<\/p>\n

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