By:Brendan Connolly
Class: 3rd period, Smith
Book: Crank, Simon & Schuster Inc, New York, NY
Author: Hopkins, Ellen
Heart
Borders
Genre: Young Adult, Fiction
$6.99
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter that never gets in trouble and has never done a bad thing in her life. But that all changes when she goes on a trip to visit her father who she hasn’t seen in many years. She meets a boy on her trip that introduces her to the monster: crank. She tells everyone that she meets in this new town that her name is Bree, a new identity, the dark side of Kristina, the opposite of Kristina. Bree is the person that is willing to try new things, meet new people, and do bad things that she would never do in the past. Everything in her life changed once she started to do crank, and it is never easy to turn away and just go back to your old life after you shook hands with the monster. After Bree got on the plane and flew back home, it was time for Kristina to take over and go back to how things used to be. After a month went by things seemed to be fine until Bree started to take over again. Her urge to have crank was getting stronger until the point where she didn’t care about anything or anyone, but the monster. Her family began to realize that Kristina was a new person and something was wrong with her. She started talking back to her mom, lost all of her old friends, and made new friends who were into bad habits. Then one critical thing happened in her life that made Bree realize that Kristina had to come back and Bree could no longer be in control.
This story shows what actual changes can happen to a person when they start to do crank. What you learn in health class is basic, but Crank shows you a true life depiction of how your life changes and how it destroys who you are. Ellen Hopkins also uses a very unique writing style that is almost like a two voice poem, which is something that is very different from most authors. Although this book is fiction, many of the events that happen are closely if not exactly related to things that actually happened to Ellen Hopkins daughter. Crank is a story told from a person who has experienced what it can do to someone first hand. There are so many nail biting events that keep you on the edge of your seat the whole story. All these different things that happen make it very fascinating and you always want to know what is going to happen next.
5 comments:
My book is similar to yours and I think that it would be a good read. I like the style of these books.
I think I would enjoy reading this book. I have seen it on the shelves before, and it seems like a fun read, I have just never had the chance of reading it before.
This seems like an interesting book after reading the review. It would be probably be a good book because it shows the true effects of crank on a person and the ones around them.
I think this sounds like a good read. I love books that keep you on the edge of your seat. It makes you never wanna put the book down until its over.
I believe this book would be a good one to read, especially for kids our age. I definately want to check this one out because I feel like it would be very easy to relate to all of the peer pressures we now face. This story seems like it would teach me some valuable lessons about decision making at this time in my life.
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