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Epic, poetic homage(?) to the monster called Meth. I loved the word drawings, especially the ones for Wild Waters. The story told so elegantly, keeps your attention. You care for the characters, except for a couple jerks, even they are believable.

Rather than being on a banned list, this book and the rest of the series should be required reading, even a textbooks for junior-high and high school students. Don't think for a moment they are too young to be influenced. They already are. The book gives warning about the ways a person can lose their future, life, love, and bring loss. This isn't a decision to be forced by parents (who are hated during adolescence anyway), this can empower the teen to make their own choice. A teacher, counselor, trusted adult could encourage open conversation. The adult here could bring in those who have had similar experiences that Kristina/Bree, the main character of Crank, and I think, of this series, goes through, in real life. There are those who have come out the other side with productive lives who can offer an ear, a shoulder, understanding.

Thank you, Ellen Hopkins for writing these books.


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Crank Ellen Hopkins Books Reviews

Using a poetry like format is an interesting way to present the chaos caused by Kristina's foray into drugs. While I really enjoyed that format I did, on occassion find it slightly harder to read. A difficult topic but important for teens to see in an unglamorized light!
Amazing. Ellen Hopkins brings it again with another great story. Glass has so many scenes where you just want to reach out to the main character and help her realize she's heading in the wrong direction. Sad, frightening, eye opening. It's interesting to see a good kid go bad real quick. I think this helped me be much more patient with the teens im surrounded with and try to help. Being a non drug user, I often though people basically had a bad life and went the wrong way but its eye opening to see a good kid with a seemingly good life go bad real quick. Sad. Great book. Enjoyed the read.
I have had this book in my wish list for a while and on a whim I decided to get it. It did not disappoint. It continued the story started in Ellen Hopkins' Crank. I really enjoy her style of writing, not only form but shape as well. Just about every page has words in some wacky arrangement, and in some pages you will find a "hidden" passage. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone, although I would advise you to read Crank first and keep Urban Dictionary handy if you are unfamiliar with terms related to drugs, specifically meth (I lived a very sheltered life so I was looking up words from the book quite frequently.)
Conclusion Loved the book, same style and characters from the first book, Crank, had to look up some words b/c I'm not familiar with slang words for drugs.
This is by far one of my favorite authors, and this book doesn't disappoint! I read this book in one sitting, that's how good it is... I love how she chose to write this series in free verse. I was a little skeptical at first thinking that it wouldn't flow very well as a story because of this choice but boy was I ever wrong! This story will catch your attention from the very first page and reel you in.
I remember all my friends reading these books in high school, but I didn't want to. I didn't care for the content or style....and I'm glad I didn't read it then. I don't think I would have appreciated the story as much at 14 or 15 as I do now. I had to force myself to put it down to do other things.
Every have a book that you really enjoyed but had a hard time figuring out why? Glass was like that for me at first. As I continued to read, I kept rolling my eyes at the main character Kristina as she continues to destroy her life. I despise her mother and step father for being in denial as long as they were. I do not care for her friends when they can just abandon her as quickly as change their shirt.

What makes the story even more tragic is how she gives up her own baby for the meth. You would think that would motivate her to do better and be better. If anything, she uses the baby as an excuse. The meth helps her lose the baby fat because she does not eat, and it helps her escape the stress of being a mother.

So why do I like this story so much if I find the characters so despicable? Well, first off it is a very compelling story. I am willing to admit that I started to feel sorry for Kristina as her world came crashing down. She lost ties with all her family because of her own choices but when I saw how it was affecting her I still hoped for something good to happen, but it never did.

What really enthralls me is Hopkins' style. I love reading this story in prose. She even gets more creative in this one by meshing up her prose into different shapes reflecting the situation she is telling. These books are deceptively short yet a lot more happens than most stories.
I would definitely recommend continuing this series if you enjoyed Crank. It is a terrifying yet awe-inspiring tale of what continues to happen with meth addicts and the continuing dangers of addiction. If Crank and Glass do not give you pause about drug use, nothing will.
Semi-true story of a teenager who gets addicted to meth, written in poetry by her mother. Beautifully written, but it loses steam near the end and sort of fizzles out. There are two more books in the series, so I suppose this wasn't meant to be the true ending. Still, the momentum just bottomed out at the end, almost as if the writer gave up or was short on time and had to just toss something together, or was just too darn tired to keep up the fiction any longer. As she says in the afterword, her daughter was incarcerated in prison by the time this first book was written, so I think the mother/author just wanted to be done with it and move on by then. I can't really say more without discussing the specific plot line and ruining it for you.
Epic, poetic homage(?) to the monster called Meth. I loved the word drawings, especially the ones for Wild Waters. The story told so elegantly, keeps your attention. You care for the characters, except for a couple jerks, even they are believable.

Rather than being on a banned list, this book and the rest of the series should be required reading, even a textbooks for junior-high and high school students. Don't think for a moment they are too young to be influenced. They already are. The book gives warning about the ways a person can lose their future, life, love, and bring loss. This isn't a decision to be forced by parents (who are hated during adolescence anyway), this can empower the teen to make their own choice. A teacher, counselor, trusted adult could encourage open conversation. The adult here could bring in those who have had similar experiences that Kristina/Bree, the main character of Crank, and I think, of this series, goes through, in real life. There are those who have come out the other side with productive lives who can offer an ear, a shoulder, understanding.

Thank you, Ellen Hopkins for writing these books.