Tilt

Ellen Hopkins

Sep 2012 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Love—good and bad—forces three teens’ worlds to tilt in a riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.

Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through their parents’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the lives of the teens begin to tilt...​

Mikayla, almost eighteen, is over-the-top in love with Dylan, who loves her back. But what happens to that love when Mikayla gets pregnant the summer before their senior year—and decides to keep the baby?

Shane turns sixteen that same summer and falls hard in love with his first boyfriend, Alex, who happens to be HIV positive. Shane has lived for four years with his little sister’s impending death. Can he accept Alex’s love, knowing that his life, too, will be shortened?

Harley is fourteen—a good girl searching for new experiences, especially love from an older boy. She never expects to hurdle toward self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be.

Love, in all its forms, has crucial consequences in this standalone novel.

Ratings and reviews

Ellen Hopkins never ceases to amaze. She takes the subjects NO ONE wants to talk about and proclaims them out with fireworks and streamers. This book is no different. It makes you think about life, asking the most provoking questions and leaving the reader to answer them. Anyone who reads her books will find at least one character they can relate to, and I think that's what makes her books so beautiful. Not the poetry it was written in, but the way that anyone can pick up any of her books and feel so connected with them. She immerses you into her well built characters, leaving you no choice but to love each and every one of their flaws and finding even the smallest of perfections. I think the character that really grew in this book is a tie between Shane and Harley, for the way Harley finds herself and the way Shane comes to par with the fact that, this is the way I am, and this is the way I'll be, and who is there to say "No, it's not." And that's what I want to see in a book, is the characters accepting everything they are about, especially if that's exactly what society wants to keep covered up. And Ellen Hopkins has not problem what so ever bringing those into the light.

I've read all her books! I love them all! I own tilt on my nexus 7 and have a copy of crank impulse and fallout! I love her writing so much! Amazed and I can never put down here books! Love them so much!!!!!

I cannot see it! I've tried everything, I paid for this book and I can't even read it! I either want my money back or the text fixed.

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.