Fallout, Ellen Hopkins
Fallout, Ellen Hopkins
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Fallout

Author: Ellen Hopkins

Narrator: Candace Thaxton, Rebekkah Ross, Jonathan Todd Ross, Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2016


Synopsis

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, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only 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, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, 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.

About Ellen Hopkins

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kendall on July 21, 2013

Wow. What a book, like a punch to my innocent face! Definitely a book for adults who can handle mature content. Seriously through if you pick up this book, plan on finishing it! There is nothing like the full effect. I feel like I’ve grown in knowledge and my eyes have been opened to a dark world I......more

Goodreads review by J. on April 23, 2015

Have you ever started reading a book so dark and seedy you wished you hadn’t started, but by the end of the first page you were so invested in the story you couldn’t stop? That was my experience with The Fall: An Autobiography of an Alter Ego. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I sat down to read......more

Goodreads review by Bill on April 20, 2013

This is not my normal read: Not my genre, not my generation, not my clique, yet I was unexpectedly enthralled by the real-life experience of this brilliant young woman's chain-reaction response to "stimulus lost". My greatest fear? Inescapable boredom. Sherlock Holmes had his escape mechanism, and El......more

Goodreads review by Paula on April 13, 2013

Are you in the mood for something different than what you would normally venture into and read ? The Fall : An Autobiography of an Alter-Ego tells the story of Devon in two parts , the first part which is at the beginning of each chapter is a diary sequence and the second is the story part giving us......more

Goodreads review by Vanda on December 09, 2013

The fictional autobiography of a junkie in an abusive relationship.......more