Fallout
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Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.
Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father’s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother’s notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together—Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle.
Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family’s story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person’s problem.
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In Fallout, we meet the three children of Kristina, nearly 20 years later. I think in this book specifically, we get a grotesque/perverse/immersive look into how addiction/trauma can leave lasting impacts across generations and families. So many choices were made for Autumn, Hunter, and Summer, and so many rights were taken from them just from being born. I enjoyed how we got to see all three of the kids' perspectives (I found Hunter's most interesting.)
Seit dem ersten Bandbin ich ein rießiger Fan dieser Geschichte, auch wenn die Handlung an sich sehr traurig, daher auch unglaublich realistisch ist, hatte ich große Freude daran, dieses Buch zu lesen. Ich fand es total spannend aus den Blickwinkel der ältesten Kinder von Kristina zu lesen und fand das komplette Buch sehr gut umgesetzt. Man merkt einfach das Ellen Hopkins selbst Erfahrungen mit Suchtmitteln und deren Angehörigen gemacht hat. Das Buch wirkt einfach unglaublich authentisch und realistisch. Nur mit dem Ende war ich nicht ganz zufrieden, weil ich es etwas zu gut geplant gefunden habe. Also damit meine ich, die Ereignisse die in den letzten 80 Seiten waren, waren mir etwas zu genau überlegt und vor allem geplant waren. Aber im großen und ganzen bin ich sehr zufrieden mit der Geschichte. Ich kann die komplette Triologie einfach nur jedem ans Herz legen, der diese Art der Geschichten mag.
Description
Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.
Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father’s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother’s notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together—Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle.
Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family’s story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person’s problem.
Book Information
Posts
In Fallout, we meet the three children of Kristina, nearly 20 years later. I think in this book specifically, we get a grotesque/perverse/immersive look into how addiction/trauma can leave lasting impacts across generations and families. So many choices were made for Autumn, Hunter, and Summer, and so many rights were taken from them just from being born. I enjoyed how we got to see all three of the kids' perspectives (I found Hunter's most interesting.)
Seit dem ersten Bandbin ich ein rießiger Fan dieser Geschichte, auch wenn die Handlung an sich sehr traurig, daher auch unglaublich realistisch ist, hatte ich große Freude daran, dieses Buch zu lesen. Ich fand es total spannend aus den Blickwinkel der ältesten Kinder von Kristina zu lesen und fand das komplette Buch sehr gut umgesetzt. Man merkt einfach das Ellen Hopkins selbst Erfahrungen mit Suchtmitteln und deren Angehörigen gemacht hat. Das Buch wirkt einfach unglaublich authentisch und realistisch. Nur mit dem Ende war ich nicht ganz zufrieden, weil ich es etwas zu gut geplant gefunden habe. Also damit meine ich, die Ereignisse die in den letzten 80 Seiten waren, waren mir etwas zu genau überlegt und vor allem geplant waren. Aber im großen und ganzen bin ich sehr zufrieden mit der Geschichte. Ich kann die komplette Triologie einfach nur jedem ans Herz legen, der diese Art der Geschichten mag.