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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
Interesting read! Not too sure if I'll read the rest of the series but I enjoyed this first book. It was a toned down version of A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown.
my emotions are all over the place. I'm so shocked by everything that happened. it all just kept coming at the end. bang after bang after bang. I'm shocked, upset, angry and sad. books like this I don't really like reading but I'm hooked and I really want to read the next book now
All of the mania and dissociation with little to no backstory
And yes, this is far more common than we would to think about
And yes, this is far more common than we would to think about
I was scrolling though Libby when I saw this blast from the past. Crank was released in 2004, and I fully remember reading this series in the middle of the night under the covers with a flashlight.
Fast forward to 2022- I don't feel like this book aged very well. First off, I know this is written from a teenage girls POV and the novel was published 18 years ago, but now it reads as pretty homophobic. Thats no fault to the book, but again- did not age well.
I have to take into consideration that I am also 18 years older and my veiws and life experiences are very different. When I read it all those years ago it was captivating, the writing style was new and exciting and different, and the story was compelling. Now, it is still unique and different, but I can't get past the ick of thinking the author is capitalizing on her daughters experience. I know writing about your experiences can be healing, but it felt kinda wrong to me, especially because this book is going for shock value.
It was really cool to have this blast from the past, and although I didn't absolutely love it as much as I did before, I still am glad I got to experience the novel as an adult. Maybe I'll continue with the series, and get my brain off the ick train of thought.
Fast forward to 2022- I don't feel like this book aged very well. First off, I know this is written from a teenage girls POV and the novel was published 18 years ago, but now it reads as pretty homophobic. Thats no fault to the book, but again- did not age well.
I have to take into consideration that I am also 18 years older and my veiws and life experiences are very different. When I read it all those years ago it was captivating, the writing style was new and exciting and different, and the story was compelling. Now, it is still unique and different, but I can't get past the ick of thinking the author is capitalizing on her daughters experience. I know writing about your experiences can be healing, but it felt kinda wrong to me, especially because this book is going for shock value.
It was really cool to have this blast from the past, and although I didn't absolutely love it as much as I did before, I still am glad I got to experience the novel as an adult. Maybe I'll continue with the series, and get my brain off the ick train of thought.
First thing that is important about me and this review of the book, is that I hate drugs and drug users. I am probably the most unsympathetic person for stories about those poor little users with their illness. I do not see it as an illness, because i have seen a drugaddict from nearby and someone with a real illness, so let me tell you, those things are not the same. I read this book, because I love Ellen Hopkins and I honestly had no idea this was a story about drugs. If I would have known, I would have probably never picked up the book, but I am so glad I did.
Ellen Hopkins has a way with words and taking the reader into her imaginary world, without giving too many details. I love the space she leaves for the reader's own imagination. The book revolves around the addiction of Kristina/Bree. Kristina is a well written character, in which I could find a lot of aspects of myself. Bree is the opposite of Kristina (and thus of me), but is written so clearly and with precision that somehow she makes perfect sense next to Kristina. The journey of the addiction of the young woman is painful, however Hopkins succeeds in telling the story without making Kristina/Bree look like a victim. Certain passages made my heart break for this young, confused girl, but never did I feel like the writer was forcing me to feel sorry for Kristina/Bree and her illness. It was a record of her mistakes and the inner thoughts that evolved these mistakes, which made it easy for the reader to understand why she did what she did, even though the reader might not ever do the same.
Hopkins approached a very delicate and overused topic in the best way I have ever seen. She takes the reader into the though process of the junkie, but never ever forces the reader to see her as a victim. It's raw, honest and life changing.
Ellen Hopkins has a way with words and taking the reader into her imaginary world, without giving too many details. I love the space she leaves for the reader's own imagination. The book revolves around the addiction of Kristina/Bree. Kristina is a well written character, in which I could find a lot of aspects of myself. Bree is the opposite of Kristina (and thus of me), but is written so clearly and with precision that somehow she makes perfect sense next to Kristina. The journey of the addiction of the young woman is painful, however Hopkins succeeds in telling the story without making Kristina/Bree look like a victim. Certain passages made my heart break for this young, confused girl, but never did I feel like the writer was forcing me to feel sorry for Kristina/Bree and her illness. It was a record of her mistakes and the inner thoughts that evolved these mistakes, which made it easy for the reader to understand why she did what she did, even though the reader might not ever do the same.
Hopkins approached a very delicate and overused topic in the best way I have ever seen. She takes the reader into the though process of the junkie, but never ever forces the reader to see her as a victim. It's raw, honest and life changing.
This book was amazing. A very easy read. I finished it in a day. I honestly think everyone should read this. I still have to buy the rest to read.
LOVED IT! I've figured out that I adore prose in poetic form (does that make sense?). Verse that tells a story that normal prose could. Freaking love it! And I'll definitely read more by Ellen Hopkins.
Superb expose on the life of a young girl ensnared by drugs. If only all writers could pen such honest tales!
Wow. Couldn't put it down, finished in one evening. Definitely better than Go Ask Alice, and well worth the read.