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Young Adult · 2010 · R

Fallout

by Ellen Hopkins

Three children of a meth addict inherit the wreckage of her addiction — each fighting to build something real

This gripping conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crank trilogy features a refreshed look and a trade paperback trim size. 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, an

For17+GenreYoung AdultLength664 pagesRead time~17 hoursCommunity ratings0

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Violence

A lot

Violence including abuse and some assault throughout the three storylines

Language

A lot

Strong language in Hopkins's verse register

Sexual Content

A lot

Explicit sexual content including sexual abuse across the storylines

Substance Use

Very heavy

Meth addiction and its generational consequences are the novel's entire subject; drug use is pervasive

Emotional Intensity

Very heavy

Extreme psychological trauma — abuse, neglect, addiction's multi-generational impact — is the novel's sustained and harrowing subject

What this book is about

The final Crank trilogy verse novel follows Hunter, Autumn, and Summer — three of Kristina's children, raised separately, each carrying the generational trauma of her addiction. Hopkins writes verse fiction about teen lives shaped by parental addiction, abuse, and the systems that failed them. The content is extreme across all categories: violence, sexual abuse, drug use, and psychological trauma are the novel's subjects. Among the most intense YA fiction published. For mature readers only.

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Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.

Extreme content in all categories

Sexual abuse present

Drug use throughout

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