Fallout by Ellen Hopkins (Crank #3)

Click for Review of Crank (Crank #1)

Click for Review of Glass (Crank #2)

Read: July 2014

Summary: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.

Review under read more due to spoilers

Rating: 5/5

This is the 3rd book in the Crank series and it is also the last.

This story is set 20 years after the second book and it is from the perspective of 3 out of Kristina’s 5 children. The 3 oldest which are Hunter, Autumn and Summer. Hunter is 19, Autumn is 17 and Summer is 15.

Hunter seems to have been raised the best but his character is just not that great. I thought he was an asshole, to be quite honest. I didn’t like his personality or the way he interacted with others. He cheated on his girlfriend and then broke in to her house and laid in bed with her to apologize? like what the fuck. Ugh, I don’t know he just wasn’t my favorite and I couldn’t really bring myself to care about him I enjoyed Autumn and Summer’s stories much better.

That brings me to Autumn. At first I didn’t really like her story I thought she was really boring but as time past I began to like her more and more she still did things that were weird to me like trying to get pregnant at age 17 but I don’t know I did enjoy her. I think that she was a good character.

Summer was my favorite. The was kind of cruel but it didn’t really bother me as much as it probably should have She kept getting put through foster homes or sent back to her dad who didn’t take very good care of her. I think she went through the most shit. Her love for her boyfriend’s best friend was really dramatic and their running away together and crashing thing was interesting. Like, good to read about idk her story was just the most interesting out of the 3 I feel.

They all meet up at the end and have dinner with their mother and you can see how much of a bad person Kristina really is and how she effected each of her children even Autumn who didn’t even remember her. That caused Autumn to have the most empathy for her than the other two whose lives she had been in and out of.

It was written in poems too following the other two books. I tore through this book I just read it so quickly I thought it was so good I couldn’t be away from it too long or I would only think about it. It got to the point where I was reading it while I was in social situation. So yeah, it was great. Would recommend.