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 is Hunter, the child born in Crank and adopted by Kristina's parents (bolstered by the interesting element of dealing with his grandmother's author-celebrity status, which would indicate that he was familiar with her previous semi-autobiographical novels). Then there is Autumn, the "lost" daughter, living with her aunt and grandfather. Also living with OCD and panic attacks and soon to be confronted by a past she knows little about. Finally, there is Summer, jostled in and out of foster care, a notoriously dicey system. She gets a brief reprieve (?) from the system to live with her father and his girlfriend.
Three very different teens, dealing with complex emotional issues all derived from their mother's addiction to the monster meth. Emotionally raw and painfully realistic, the final installment to this tragic trilogy is a satisfying stopping place in one family's on-going saga of addiction and its collateral damage.