Fallout: Volume 3

Ellen Hopkins

Sep 2010 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

New York Times–Bestselling Author: The Crank trilogy concludes with a “gritty, gripping” novel following three damaged children of a meth-addicted mother.

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. As he struggles to understand why his mother left him, he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn, plagued with OCD and panic attacks, lives with her aunt and alcoholic grandfather. But when the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. Summer doesn’t know about any of her siblings. To her, family means 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. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they must find the trust, the courage, and 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.

“Hopkins shifts the point of view from meth-user Kristina to her three teenage kids; it’s a brilliant tactic that shows just how deeply others are affected by a single person’s addiction . . . Hopkins’ free-verse stanzas are as engaging as always, though prose this observant and strong would be powerful even if arranged in standard paragraphs. An emotional, satisfying end (and a new beginning, in a way) to Kristina’s story.” —Booklist

Ratings and reviews

I absolutely love the way that this author writes her books. Everytime I pick up one of her books there is just no way, that I can pull myself away from the suspense each page brings you!!!! Excellent work, I tip my hat to you and thank you for taking me into the world of others that I would never guess or imagine that one could possibly go through. I want to see if she will write a book along the lines of being behind bars. Thank you

Sorry but not really a fan of the 3rd book! Absolutely loved the first & second though. This one just wasn't that great in my opinion.

By far the best book series I've read! Ellen Hopkins writing style is refreshing and completely unique. These books really open your eyes to effects of habitual drug use and the effects they have on everyone the person knows. Fallout was my favorite out of the three because it shows the direct correlation of kristinas action's and the effects on her family and loved ones.

About the author

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous young adult novels, as well as the adult novels such as Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsLit.