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A review by bethanyangharads
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
2.0
2.5 stars
This book is seen in my video: Reading Like Euphoria Star Sydney Sweeney⎬Reading Like... Pilot
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Before I even get into the review for this, heads up, this book has triggers galore! On Goodreads it seems to be marketed as YA, but I disagree. Although this has teenage main characters, there are some extremely heavy things talked about which are not suitable for younger audiences - new adult and up, at least! The triggers include, sexual assault, drug addiction, alcoholism, adoption, suicide… anything you can think of and I can almost guarantee it will be in here.
Okay, the story itself is quite important. I like how Hopkins brings these discussions out and make you think about things e.g. how disruptive the foster system can be, how drug addiction effects families etc. But I didn’t like the layout. This book is written in versed poems, sometime couplets, sometimes ‘instagram style’ poems. Whilst there is nothing wrong with poems, in this novel format, it resulted in me having little to no immersion. Every time there was a random spaced lined I would lose the flow of the story. This happened to the point where the last 200 pages were a real force for me to push through.
I don’t think the message in the story is bad, but the layout of it was so hard for me to personally get in to, I couldn’t give it more than 2.5 stars.
Triggers: everything. Like literally, you think it, it is probably in here. 80% sure of that.
This book is seen in my video: Reading Like Euphoria Star Sydney Sweeney⎬Reading Like... Pilot
YouTube // Instagram
Before I even get into the review for this, heads up, this book has triggers galore! On Goodreads it seems to be marketed as YA, but I disagree. Although this has teenage main characters, there are some extremely heavy things talked about which are not suitable for younger audiences - new adult and up, at least! The triggers include, sexual assault, drug addiction, alcoholism, adoption, suicide… anything you can think of and I can almost guarantee it will be in here.
Okay, the story itself is quite important. I like how Hopkins brings these discussions out and make you think about things e.g. how disruptive the foster system can be, how drug addiction effects families etc. But I didn’t like the layout. This book is written in versed poems, sometime couplets, sometimes ‘instagram style’ poems. Whilst there is nothing wrong with poems, in this novel format, it resulted in me having little to no immersion. Every time there was a random spaced lined I would lose the flow of the story. This happened to the point where the last 200 pages were a real force for me to push through.
I don’t think the message in the story is bad, but the layout of it was so hard for me to personally get in to, I couldn’t give it more than 2.5 stars.
Triggers: everything. Like literally, you think it, it is probably in here. 80% sure of that.