Life was good
before I
met
the monster.
Crank is not the easiest book to read. It touches on very dark topics, but so do all of Ellen Hopkin's works.
As a kid I was exposed to a lot of drugs and alcohol. It wasn't very taboo and I had a very casual view on them. Kristina's dad was a drug addict that her mother divorced and tried to keep away from her children. It worked for a little while.
Due to a set of events Kristina willing travels to spend time with her father and her life is changed forever. Gone is the young naive girl and in her place is Bree, a drug craving and very angry heartbroken teenager. As with most scenarios with young girls and drugs, she experiences the lowest of the lows as her obsession and addiction with "the monster" grows.
I liked this book because I saw a lot of similar struggles in it. Not light reading. Lots of triggers. Be careful with the monsters.
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