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Fallout (Crank #3)

by Ellen Hopkins (Goodreads Author)

4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 · rating details · 11,770 ratings · 843 reviews

The riveting final chapter of the Crank trilogy, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.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...more

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Published September 14th 2010 by Margaret K. McElderry Books

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May 27, 2011 {Eva-la rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

OMGZ!
can NOT wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oct 09, 2010 Courtney rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: abuse, addiction, realistic-fiction, series, teen-fiction, novel-in-verse

In classic fan-girl fashion, I put this on hold as soon as it was entered into our library's catalog. I've been avidly following Ellen's work ever since I read the first book of this series several years ago. While this is the end of the series, it serves as a reminder that there really is no end to addiction. Whereas the first two books follow Kristina through her devastating dance with addiction and relapse, this one takes place years later with her eldest children telling their stories. There...more

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Aug 17, 2011 Joy Mo rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm not quite sure what made me not like Fallout as much and the other Ellen Hopkins books.

Maybe
it was that the characters all seemed to experience the same
plot only with different people.
I'm
not quite sure, but I think it goes something like this: freakishly
sensitive boy meets bland girl. They gawk at each other's
perfection for a few sentences and then they have sexay tyme, eh,
yes? But
Just
when you think they're ready to skip off into the sunset of meth
and teen pregnancy, oooooooooooo...more

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Aug 07, 2011 Ashleigh Paige rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: the-great-shelf-of-awesome

Also appears on The Screaming Nitpicker.

Taking place about nineteen years after the conclusion of Glass, Fallout picks the story back up in the eyes of three of her children: Hunter, still living in Reno with his grandparents and longing to know who his father is; Autumn, an OCD-inflicted teen living in Texas with her father's family and knowing nothing of her mother or that side of the family; and Summer, a girl torn between two boys and living in the foster care system in California. All three...more Also appears on The Screaming Nitpicker.

Taking place about nineteen years after the conclusion of Glass, Fallout picks the story back up in the eyes of three of her children: Hunter, still living in Reno with his grandparents and longing to know who his father is; Autumn, an OCD-inflicted teen living in Texas with her father's family and knowing nothing of her mother or that side of the family; and Summer, a girl torn between two boys and living in the foster care system in California. All three long for love and are tied together by one person: Kristina Snow. Her children are more like her than they would prefer and as this novel shows you, addiction destroys more people than just the addict.

This time around, we leave Kristina's point of view and are spread between three narrators, all children of hers by different men. Just as all of Hopkins's books are, Fallout is written in free-verse poetry that range from simple to purposeful, some arrangements revealing the inner thoughts of the section's narrator and some making shapes relevant to the passage. Part of what makes Hopkins's books so powerful is this free verse she uses. If put in plain prose like in most books, their power would certainly take a beating, though there would still be power coming from what's being written.

All three of our narrators--angry Hunter, OCD Autumn, and cynical Summer--are rather unlikable, but my favorite of the three is definitely Autumn. There was just something so vulnerable about her, probably coming from being a loner and not knowing many people beyond her grandfather and aunt, that made me like her. Some of what she said and did later in the book kind of made me lose some of that fondness, but she's only human. Summer was the most interesting of the narrators due to her cynicism and trip through the foster care system. Hunter? Well, I didn't like Hunter that much or have much to say about him. He's a pretty big sleaze.

The narration had a habit of changing to the next child just when it got interesting for one of them and that became frustrating quickly. All this switching made the pacing slow to a crawl at points. However, all this changing does give them all their time in the spotlight and show just how similar all three are to Kristina. As for Kristina herself, she's still a mess and still into crystal meth, but it isn't as bad as it once was. If it were, there's no way she would come near any of her family. Twenty years of drugs and jail have changed her and she's not completely the Kristina readers may know, but it is her. Curious about some of the minor characters, like Trey's cousin Brad and Brad's daughters LaTreya and Devon from Glass or Kristina's ex Chase? Thanks to newspaper clippings between chapters, you'll find out.

While I liked the ending of Fallout, I wish that it didn't end with the group realization at the Christmas dinner and the fake news article. We just saw three siblings who barely knew each other finally coming together and seeing their mother again. The article tells us all of the children now live in the same house. Couldn't it be extended a little to show us how the siblings interact together? We only saw their introduction to each other and then it was over. We never got a handle on how they felt about one another. I think this small extension really would have made this book shine.

If you haven't already picked up these books, do it. Read them and be horrified. Have a problem reading about drug addicts or drugs in general? Me too, surprisingly. Getting around that discomfort to read the Crank trilogy will be worth it. It's a bit of a shame that this is the end because there is still so much more to the story, but readers will be able to piece together the future themselves if needed.(less)

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Jan 02, 2012 Shannon rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have been a fan of Ellen Hopkins' books since I was 15 (so 5 years) and I was so looking forward to when the FINAL book in the Crank series was to come out. However, when I found out that it was going to be from Kristina’s children point of views I was a little disappointed. At first I had a hard time getting into the story because I didn’t know where she was going to take the plot of the story. It also felt like there was all this build up, towards the end, about the siblings being reunited a...more

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Jun 08, 2013 Cailin rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ah, yes. Ellen Hopkins. You see, I'm a little late in the game here reading the Crank series. When I was in high school these books were extremely popular, therefore it was impossible to get them at the library. I'd read burned (more on that later) and detested it, so I put the Crank series at the very bottom of my "to read" list.

A few weeks ago, out of boredom, I finally read Crank and Glass. I liked them, I did. Went through them both in less than a day. It was only natural that I read Fallou...more Ah, yes. Ellen Hopkins. You see, I'm a little late in the game here reading the Crank series. When I was in high school these books were extremely popular, therefore it was impossible to get them at the library. I'd read burned (more on that later) and detested it, so I put the Crank series at the very bottom of my "to read" list.

A few weeks ago, out of boredom, I finally read Crank and Glass. I liked them, I did. Went through them both in less than a day. It was only natural that I read Fallout next, right? Well, lets just say it is a day of my life I will never get back.

For starters, I was initially intrigued at Hopkin's decision to tell the story from the POV of Kristina's oldest children. However, the entire story took a nose dive about 1/3 of the way through the book. I won't bother to give a summary here, but I will recount the elements of the story that bothered me the most.

1.) All three children, Hunter, Autumn, and Summer (autumn and summer, really now?) were as deep as puddles. I found their cliche and contrived story lines made them all incredibly unlikeable. Instead of really delving into the seemingly traumatic childhoods each endured in their own right, they instead found themselves wrapped up in their own vanilla teenage romances. I was particularly bothered by how forgettable some of the main characters turned out to be, such as Autumn's boyfriend Bryce and Summer's ex Matt. For all I could tell they were essentially the same person. The character development is incredibly lazy here- the same could be said of the sisters themselves. Hunters story showed the greatest promise, yet the middle of the book was mainly him getting unjustifiably angry with the back and forth relationship with his girlfriend Nikki, who is portrayed as a brainless Barbie doll. The important parts of the story, such as Hunter meeting his father and Autumn discovering her siblings, are weakly played out in short bursts of verse in favor of lengthy pages about driving through various deserts. Literally.

2.) The blatant sexist undertones in this book are incredibly disturbing to me. Hopkins practically glorifies the fact that many of her female characters suffer abuse at the hands of their respective male partners. At one point, Summer's beau Kyle forces her to have sex with him although she had just confessed to him that she had been sexually abused as a child, and at many points in the story he is aggressive with her and orders her around like a puppet. It is hard to believe that the "tougher/stronger" girl would go along with this. I was also mad to hear Hunter guilt-tripping his mom about being raped, insinuating that she "asked for it." I could really go on all day here about these kind of themes portrayed in the book.

3.) Hopkins confuses throughout the whole book. The constant switching of POV's, for one, left me dizzy. Aside from that, however, is the revelation that Kristina's mother writes three fictional books in the story titled "Crank", "Glass", and "Fallout." This is even hard for me to explain- now, is Hopkins trying to tell us that this is an Inception kind of deal, a book within a book within a real life story? What is real and what is fake? She also makes it a point to mention several times what a "famous author" Kristina's mother is in the book- many a time an autographed copy of her latest book was the resolution of a mini crisis in the story. It was cheesy, as if Hopkins imagined herself to really be that big and made plenty of space for her ego between the pages of her book.

4.) Finally, the loose ends. There were so many pointless plot twists thrown in here to shock or engage the reader, but they instead fell flat. The ending result of the entire story felt like something I would have written in a game of the Sims, to put it one way. Autumn's possible pregnancy? The siblings all meeting each other for the first time? NOPE! You get to make that all up on your own, folks. The endless blah blah blah crap I poured through all day lead to a rushed and soap-opera type ending. The only spoiler I can give you is that Kristina and Trey somehow remarry and live as happily ever after as they can. But really? Two volatile addicts with a terrifying and traumatic past are really going to last in a relationship together? And flaky selfish Kristina, who can't love anyone, is going to continue to abandon her children in favor of a dude. We also never find out how Autumn reacts to her parents being together again after they are absent from her life up until that point?

I need to stop. I could be here all night typing the flaws and shortcomings, and yes, general sloppiness of this book until my eyes fall out of my skull. But I simply use up my 20,000 character limit and then some. This book was so bad that I went out of my way to find this site so I could review it. Like I said before, I liked Crank and Glass all right because it was more engaging, it had more soul. I kind of understand what Hopkins was going for with her final installment of the series, but it turned into a bleak, hopeless, and vapid piece of writing. Her idea could have come through in so many different ways, and it could have even held the potential of being a five star work of art. I am truly surprised to see how many perfect reviews it got, so maybe she got what she wanted out of Fallout- a cash cow of a follow up to please those readers with a taste for mindless Facebook type drama. (less)

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Feb 17, 2013 Lynne Colley rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

The storyline of this book skips almost 15 years from the end of Glass. (Hopkins said this was the last of the series.) It is told from the point of view of three of Kristina's children (she has a total of five children, all of them with issues resulting from her drug use). There were a lot of characters in this book, with shifting view points every nine or ten chapters, so you had to pay attention to who the narrator was in order to keep up with the story (the change in font with each new chara...more

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Feb 11, 2013 Jessica Guzorek rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"We Hear
That life was good
before she
met
the monster
but those page flips
went down before
out collective
cognition. Kristina
wrote
that chapter of her
history before we
were even whispers
in her womb.
The monster shaped
our
lives, without our ever
touching it. Read on
if you dare. This
memoir
isn't pretty.

Fallout is the conclusion to the trilogy begun by Crank and Glass. This story is told by Kristina's three oldest children and how their mothers addiction had affected their lives.

I absolutely loved all th...more

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Jan 19, 2013 Angela rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011

In this third book of the trilogy, Kristina’s three oldest children take the spotlight. Raised by Kristina’s parents, Hunter is now in college and struggles with his desires to be unfaithful to his girlfriend, with whom he lives. He enjoys smoking pot, and doing other drugs. Autumn doesn’t know much about her mother. She was taken in by her paternal aunt and grandfather when she was two and her father went to jail. Now he’s being released and her aunt is getting married, so Autumn is feeling aba...more

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Jan 11, 2013 Lauren Brinkman rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I thought this book was written wonderfully. It was about a young girl who became a meth addict and along her journey she gave birth to five children. Many of them got separated. One went with his grandparents, one in foster care, and one with her dad. They all have very similar characteristic and its very interesting to learn about how thy grow up. In some way they all resemble their mother who is the one person they never want to be. In the end, they all get together for Christmas and realize...more

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Jun 07, 2012 Maddy Thies rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is by far my favorite book by Ellen Hopkins. No doubt.
The third and final sequel to the book "Crank", "Fallout" is the knot that ties everything together. The book is divided into three speakers, Kristina's children: 19 year old Hunter, and teenagers Summer and Autumn. Because of Kristina's childish acts and her selfish ways, these children have been given off to other families, other relatives: left to be cared for by anyone but their birth mother. As the story goes on, we learn that despi...more

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Feb 20, 2012 Jmackarla rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fallout by Ellen Hopkins

I loved the way Hopkins
Finished the crazy roller coaster,
Fictionalized portrayal of her daughter.
Even though Kristina barely makes an appearance
It highlights the way
Her kids see her. Mere glimpses.
The descriptions of how Meth affected
The lives of Kristina’s kids
Were at times dramatic and
Made you sympathize with them.
Hunter struggles with trying to maintain
Himself faithful with his girlfriend
(view spoiler)...more

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Nov 15, 2011 Mikella Etchegoyen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, ellen-hopkins, part-of-a-series

I have read (or am currently reading) every single one of Ellen Hopkins books. Fallout, while following the construct of a few of her other books (Impulse, Tricks) in that it contains multiple points of views, is quite different when stacked against the first two books in the Crank Trilogy. From the first page of Crank, I was hooked on the intensity, darkness and rawness of her characters (and by this I mean through all of the books that I read following Crank). Fallout operates as a companion t...more

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Jun 30, 2011 Chae Ford rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

GREAT ADDITION TO A GREAT SERIES!

Crank, will always be the best book in the series for me. Hopkins started the series off about Kristina. A good girl-gone bad who got herself hooked on "The monster" commonly known as CRANK. the series goes on to add GLASS as Kristina just gets worse ad worse with her sad epidemic and addiction to drugs and sex.

Hopkins stated that she "wanted to give the children of Kristina a voice also. so readers can see how Kristina's choices effected her 5 children." And bo...more

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May 25, 2011 Olivia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hunter, Autumn, and Summer(three of Kristina Snow’s five children)live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. The only thing they have in common is 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. This book is often referred to as 'Crank #3' because Kristina is the character in the original Crank book, who fights for her life against a mon...more

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May 09, 2011 Manda rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was a fantastic way of Hopkins wrapping up the first two in the series. It was very powerful and told so much more of what happened to the main character, Kristina. I was able to relate to the book on many levels from being in the foster care system myself and being abused by trusted ones. The book is written in a way that gives the reader a way to relate. Be it a love sick teenager, a lonely abuse victim, a parent who just doesn't know what to do... everyone can relate somehow and if...more

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Apr 26, 2011 Donna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: family-issues, verse, young-adult

This was my favorite of the Crank trilogy, because in this story, three of Kristina's five children are given a voice. I felt this was a strong way to finish, because it shows the reader how an addict's behaviors and choices go so much deeper than their own lives. Hunter, Kristina's firstborn, is 19 in Fallout and struggling with personal relationships, deep hurt, and anger. Autumn is one of Kristina's daughters who also tells pieces of the story and glimpses of her life as she struggles to fit...more

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Apr 25, 2011 Rachelle Annen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fallout by Ellen Hopkins was an amazing book. Although I was a little disappointed on how it ended, I thought it was a book definitely worth reading.
It was about the live of Kristina's (main character in other books like crank, and burned, also by Ellen Hopkins) 3 children and how they have grown up in foster care or with other family because Kristina couldn't keep them because of her bad choices with drugs.
Hunter- who has grown up with Kristina's parents is the oldest out of the three and he k...more

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Apr 02, 2011 Brittany rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I started reading Ellen Hopkins books when I was in 7th grade (2009) and have been in love with them ever since. I have read every one of her books and they taught me so much about the life of people who do drugs and how their choices negatively effect families. They were all a real eye opener, especially the Crank series.

The series is based on Ellen's daughter who was in a similar situation as Kristina in Crank. This adds a passion and depth to the story which is my favorite part about the book...more

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Feb 18, 2011 Nancy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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 stru...more 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.

My Take: I decided to approach this book completely backward. I knew previous books existed but I didn't read them or look up their summaries. I also chose to not read the inside cover. I just opened the book and began to read, assuming Haskins had written a compilations of poetry. Oh, so wrong! Although my approach worked very well for me and the surprise I experienced as I discovered the characters in this book. I enjoyed putting the puzzle pieces together and finally understanding that Hunter, Summer, and Autumn were Kristina's children.

Any review will slaughter the uniqueness of the style. It is something to be experienced on many levels. Not only do the words tell a story in a chronological manner, the prose is organized to reflect the emotion or message. For instance, Summer struggled with panic attacks and OCD. When chaos reigned, the arrangement of the words reflected that. Hunter talks about his girlfriend and the page is titled, "The Perfect Girl." The organization of words was curvy, like a woman would be. Subtle but hammering the message home on a different level.

The book is told in three different voices - each of Kristina's oldest children. Hunter, who experiences trouble with intimacy. He has a good home life, an awesome girlfriend, people who love him yet he can not reach commitment which would provide true intimacy for him. A thoroughly enjoyable character.

Summer is in foster care and intimates sexual abuse from those she trusted. She feels alone but possesses street smarts to help her survive. Interesting addition when her boyfriend, Kyle, makes sacrifices for her. I really thought he was going to be a complete jerk but I ended respecting him.

Autumn has been carefully protected by her paternal grandfather and aunt from her biological parents. She craves order and connection. She suffers from panic attacks and has no idea she has such a large family in the world.

Naturally, the characters' worlds collide by the end. Riveting from page one right to the last page. The glue that holds all of these people together is Kristina, their biological mother. Although Hunter's outburst is much more adept as he connects all of the people sitting at the table. Kristina is the woman who has caused every one of them pain to the core. But it's not her fault, or so she claims. Still completely self-absorbed, self destructing, leaving a wake of carnage behind her and completely unaware of it.

Be advised this is a gritty read. Sex is abundant. Drug use proliferates the story. It is not glamorized yet there is a lack of preaching the evils of drug use. On the other hand, the impact on relationships, children, parents, brothers and sisters is illustrated by the journey the reader takes. (less)

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Apr 04, 2011 Kyle rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It was an amazing conclusion in my opinion. I think it was equal to Crank (and if you already know me off of Goodreads, I didn't enjoy Glass as much), so it is my FOURTH favorite book of all-time! It could've been better with two little changes:

1) Hunter, Summer, and Autmun not being so . . . HATEFUL towards Krisitina!
2) Having SOME more loose ends tied up (WAS Autumn pregnant? Did Bryce accept that?, etc.)

BUT, I understand why #1 was done, but like Leanne, I didn't like it.

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Jan 19, 2011 Jan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: teenbooks, contemporary

I’ll ‘fess’ up from the outset that I have never been a huge fan of Ellen Hopkins. But this is a novel that is ambitious in scope and does push the reader’s emotional buttons very skillfully. Hopkins does know how to tear up the scenery when it comes to painful and gritty themes like drug or sexual abuse. Her readers will love this book.

Although I thought Hopkins’ use of prose poetry was original and did an excellent job of telling a highly dramatic and compelling story, I think she still relies...more

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Jan 10, 2011 Leah Schmidt rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Fallout is the 3rd book of the story of a troubled mom- Kristina. She now has five kids, two of her boys live with her and their dad, her current abusive boyfriend. Her oldest boy, Hunter, is now growing out of the house. He had a good child hood after been taken in by Kristina's mother and step father. Hunter deals with trying to get his girlfriend back after he cheated on her and earning his trust again. Kristina's two sons that lived with her are now under custody of her mother after her boyf...more

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Dec 01, 2010 Hannah G. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fallout is a captivating story that is addicting from the beginning. All three children have a different story of despair and they all have 1 connection. Kristina. With her as a mother how could you even pretend to live a normal life? I love that this book goes back and forth betwee all three stories and that they all have very different paths and in the end all end up at that same table for Thanksgiving dinner. Kristina is a terrible mother and it's actually ironic to read her story as a tenage...more

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Nov 20, 2010 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. One of the books on the TAYSHAS List for 2010-2011. I saw this book on a reading list provided for a young adult literature class and was interested in reading it. I had just finished reading Identical and fell in love with Hopkins style and topics of writing. In Fallout, I was only disappointed in the fact that I hadnt realized that it was the third book in a trilogy that I hadnt yet read and I wished I would have read them first. Although it was the last book, I was able to follow the story we...more One of the books on the TAYSHAS List for 2010-2011. I saw this book on a reading list provided for a young adult literature class and was interested in reading it. I had just finished reading Identical and fell in love with Hopkins style and topics of writing. In Fallout, I was only disappointed in the fact that I hadnt realized that it was the third book in a trilogy that I hadnt yet read and I wished I would have read them first. Although it was the last book, I was able to follow the story well. This story follows three different characters (Hunter Haskins, Autumn Shepherd and Summer Kenwood) who have the same mother Kristins Snow. Kristina is a crank/meth addict who had Hunter at 17 and faced her own problems of sleeping around and doing drugs with her own father. Her choices have an effect on her own children and create a chaotic world for them. All three children have different last names and different families and wonder why their mom has neglected them. Hunter deals with his own problems of college life, love, his mom and finding out who is father is. Autumn has OCD due to her mother's addiction when she was pregnant. her father is in prison and she lives with ther grandfather and her Aunt cora who has been like her mother. But once Cora marries, Autumn's life is turned around and causes her to become an alcoholic where she feels she is just like her mother. Summer is bounced around in foster care and hasnt had much love from the people who care for her. Also affected by her mothers drug abuse, she has asthma and is unhappy with the life she lives. Thus leading her to sex and wanting a tasted of the "monster" that her mom is addicted to. All three characters share the common problem of wanting to understand why their mom wasnt there for them. The story continues to show the hardhip they faced and how they overcome their reality and make it better. A great story that I recommend to read after reading the first two books called Crank and Glass. Ellen Hopkins is a great writer and creates stories that young adults can relate to and touch upon topics that many are afraid to talk about. Loved it!(less)

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Nov 11, 2010 Sitina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Sep 27, 2010 Monster rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: banned-books, something-different-ya, poetry, reading-bites-ya

In Fallout, the third book in the series that started with Crank, centered 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. Fallout is 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...more

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Sep 19, 2010 Alicia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I cannot describe how inspiring and absolutely escapist Hopkins' work is. I have never been in a place to experience most of any of her diverse characters situations, BUT her writing inspires so much emotion and heartfelt hurt, anger, and compassion for the characters that it doesn't matter what my life experiences have been.

She is magic. Her books cannot come fast enough for me to consume. Each time I have a release date for a book of hers, I need to block out that day to read it, they're too...more

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Sep 05, 2010 Kelly Hager rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This 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) b...more

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Mar 22, 2013 Christina rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Some spoiler-ish material from the first two books...nothing major, but if you haven't read book one and two you may not want to read on.
The last book in the Crank trilogy. Overall , I would give the trilogy a five plus star rating...I had a couple of issues with this book. I still really really enjoyed it, just not as much as the first two.
This book is different than the other two in that for books one and two, the story is told from Kristina/Bree's persective. This one is told from the persp...more Some spoiler-ish material from the first two books...nothing major, but if you haven't read book one and two you may not want to read on.
The last book in the Crank trilogy. Overall , I would give the trilogy a five plus star rating...I had a couple of issues with this book. I still really really enjoyed it, just not as much as the first two.
This book is different than the other two in that for books one and two, the story is told from Kristina/Bree's persective. This one is told from the perspective of Kristina's three oldest children.
My issues with this book were as follows... First, i didn't feel any continuation from the second book to this one. It starts off years later, when her kids are teenagers. For the first hundred pages or so, I was saying.."who are these kids?" and "what happened to Kristina?" and who are the fathers of these kids? . In the last book, she had one baby and was pregnant for another...now she has 5? and mostly from different men? which also, is barely covered in the story. so many years had passed i had no idea what happened. It wasn't until later in the story that some of the missing parts are revealed. Also, since it was told from alternating points of view (her oldest 3 kids), and i didn't didn't know the kids yet, it was a bit confusing at times.
Overall, this book lost the flow that the first two books had. For books one and two i really felt like Kristina was speaking directly to me... i didn't get that feeling from the narrators in this story. Also, Kristina is only referred to and only appears a few times in the book.
I totally understand the concept...the book was to show how far reaching the effects of Meth can be... her addiction affected all of those around her many years into the future....so again , i get that. However, instead of breaking the flow of the story one of two things would have made it better.. 1) another book written after three and before this one...filling in the gaps...then, i would have enjoyed reading this book from the kids' perspectives, knowing the back story and who each of the kids (and their fathers) were. or 2) if the first hundred or so pages of this book gave some back story. Either of those options would have made this book a 5 star.
I spend way too much time trying to figure out what was going on, which is not the case in her other books where you feel like you are right there in the story.
Enough babbling.. lol... overall i loved loved loved the trilogy, even though i only just really enjoyed this one. (less)

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