Crank: Book review #1

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This book takes place in modern time. Not too old and not too much in the future. The main characters consist of Crystal and/or Bree, her father, and some boyfriends. The girl Crystal lives on the West cost too with her mother. All her friends and family are all on that side. Her father lives on the West coast in New Mexico. On the East, she is a straight A student, does nothing bad, and has good friends. Shes your average American teenager from the perspective of grandparents. Then one summer she is forced by court to visit her father. Crystal is okay with her father. She doesn't know too much about him and she likes to keep it that way. She thinks of this visit more as "something you have to do, even though you don't like it". She goes there and meets a boy. The boy is like any girls dream. Cool, calm, handsome, and manly. The boy introduces her to the monster. The monster is a drug called crank. a yellowy powder/ crystal form that you can snort,smoke, and shoot up. When we leaves from visiting her father, she brings back two things. The other personality and her addiction to the monster. She then meets two boys that are both friends that both have connections to the monster. Bree, i mean Crystal doesn't have much money so she is desperate for the monster. So desperate that she let the one boy rape her so she could get a taste of the monster. She then starts a relationship with the other friend and then she finds out she is pregnant. The one boy thinks its his but its really the boy who raped her. The good guy proposes to her and she declines and he goes off to collage. She keeps the baby. The book ends with her keeping clean and doing everything right. Until the sequel.



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Book review # 3. Glass by Ellen Hopkins

Glass by Ellen Hopkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This book is the second edition to the previous book "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins. This book pick up where crank left off. In this book she has her baby. She thinks the baby will keep her occupied to no blow crank anymore, wrong. She starts working at a 7-11 and starts buying glass. Glass is a more pure drug than crank, bigger, stronger, and scarier. Crystal or Bree, how ever you want to look at her is now getting high and crashing. Getting skinnier by the day. Her mother finally kicks her out because of an incident that left her son under a chair and unable to get out because his mother was too high and crashed and couldn't hear him crying. She then starts staying with her new boyfriends cousin and babysits his daughters full time. Crystals mother takes her son and is staying with her at the house. Since Crystal babysits all day, she had to quite her job at the 7-11 in which the owner was a porn dealer and offered her a job as a prostitute but she turned it now anyhow. Now that she's staying at her mans cousins house, he stops by a lot and visits her. Then he goes away and she starts sleeping with his cousin. I cannot tell anymore of the story because then their would be nothing left. This book is definitely a must read though. Not for the young and immature.



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Book review #2. Twisted

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This book is about a boy who was a nobodey. Someone who kept invisible and stayed unreconized in his home town. His dad only cares about busisness and his mom is on his dads ever last word. He has a sister that just started high school while hes in his last year.



Since no one knew him, no one would care what happened to him. He was bullied by this one kid for years in school since elementry school. Beat up, stolen from, and lied about. His arch enemey happens to be his dads big boss. His bully is also the brother of the love of his dreams.



One night he went out, and didn't come back home. He was arrested for a crime and was sentenced to community service. His monther thought he was becoming a criminal, and his father wanted to talk nothing about it with him. Everyone who went to his school heard what happened also. Some though he was a criminal and could snap any minuite, some gave him highfives down the hallway just because of what he did, and some looked down on him from what he did.



But, before he was arrested he was this little scranny kid. Since the court orrdered community service, he grew alot. Everyday in the summer he was working, working like a cheap laborer but cheaper than cheap. After the summer of the community service, he was built like an animal. Ran as fast as an animal, ate like an animal, and looked as good as an animal.



Now he was a new man. No everybodey knew how much he changed mentally and physically, but they were sure as hell to find out once school started up.



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