![]() ![]() The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. ![]() This loosely reality-based conclusion (Hopkins’s daughter is the real “Kristina,” but her actual kids are much younger) will heartily satisfy series fans despite gratuitous emphasis on the bestseller-driven fame of the author’s fictionalized alter ego. Autumn and Summer are completely believable characters, Hunter less so. The clipped free verse sharply conveys fragmented and dissociated emotions. Parched for connection and excitement, these teens turn to love and sex, and sometimes booze and drugs, because their lives offer no other interests (though a convergence at their grandparents’ house offers a faint whiff of hope). Their legacy is not only drug addiction but also the underlying malaise-half unhappiness, half boredom-that set up Kristina for addiction years ago. Hunter, 19, lives with Kristina’s parents, who adopted him years ago Autumn, 17, lives with an aunt, ignorant of any extended family Summer, 15, bounces between her father’s trailer and unsafe foster homes. Crank (2004) and Glass (2007) readers will relish this look at Kristina’s three oldest children, now teenagers, all conceived in the chaos of crystal-meth addiction. ![]()
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