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A review by tcgarback
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
⭐️💫
Critical Score: D+
Personal Score: D
I put off reading this for a long time because I expected it to be really boring, and it is.
It’s so slim on plot, the hot topics are lukewarm, Kristina is sidelined (and seemingly irredeemable) in her own trilogy, the titular fallout is so underwhelming as to be hard to define, and the point at which the kids’ paths all finally cross is too little too late.
Yawn.
I do like that Hopkins occasionally returns to the shorter and more experimental verse of Crank, but that’s a minor compliment.
And about those epistolary add-ins; they are so vaguely connected to the story that they almost feel inserted by mistake. Weird.
Critical Score: D+
Personal Score: D
I put off reading this for a long time because I expected it to be really boring, and it is.
It’s so slim on plot, the hot topics are lukewarm, Kristina is sidelined (and seemingly irredeemable) in her own trilogy, the titular fallout is so underwhelming as to be hard to define, and the point at which the kids’ paths all finally cross is too little too late.
Yawn.
I do like that Hopkins occasionally returns to the shorter and more experimental verse of Crank, but that’s a minor compliment.
And about those epistolary add-ins; they are so vaguely connected to the story that they almost feel inserted by mistake. Weird.