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amoryslaysvamps 's review for:
Crank
by Ellen Hopkins
I love the way Ellen Hopkins uses poetry to tell stories. This book still feels like a novel, but the poems allow for more emotion to come through, and the spacing of them can allow for some poems to have multiple ways to be read (ex: reading the poem straight through, reading only the words that are spaced differently, etc.). The narrator also actually felt like a real high schooler but was likable and mature. The story itself was sad but realistic, and you can clearly tell that Hopkins put her own experience with her family into this book.
This is also one of the only Ellen Hopkins books with this poetry-as-novel style where there's only one narrator, so if you disliked having multiple narrators to keep track of in some of her other books, you may like this one more.
This is also one of the only Ellen Hopkins books with this poetry-as-novel style where there's only one narrator, so if you disliked having multiple narrators to keep track of in some of her other books, you may like this one more.