A review by heathercottledillon
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins

3.0

I can't decide how I feel about the Crank series. I think it's great that that the books are out there and depicting the dark side of drugs and what they do to abusers and their families. And I like the premise of this final book in the trilogy: it jumps forward twenty years and shows how the children of the original main character are dealing with the consequences of their mother's drug abuse. On the other hand, there's too much teen angst for me in this one, and I don't particularly like the format (of all three books). I think the author writes in verse to to make her books stand out and draw in kids who shy away from dense pages of text, but it was distracting for me at the parts where it reads more like regular prose but just has weird spacing and line breaks. Despite the distractions and angsty drama, the series held my interest throughout.