Sorry I didn’t finish the book for personal reasons. (SPOILERRRRRRRRRR WARNINGGGGGGG>) But then the book just ended.

I wasn’t going to let that stop me from finishing it, even though it was kind of hard to follow (I have pretty bad ADHD) and I had to make a point of remembering who was who. I remember being annoyed that Fallout was the POV of Christina’s children. I listened to Crank and Glass and, just like years ago, they had a choke hold on me. I hated Christina while also understanding her struggle. The whole vibe was obviously different listening to this series as a 25 year old with twin babies and in recovery. My addiction lasted into adulthood, and after achieving sobriety, I decided to re experience my all time favorite series again. But (because of my addiction) I never finished Fallout. I was an addict while reading a book about a young addict, so I felt seen and understood.

I read Crank and Glass while I was still in school. 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. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle. 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. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother's notorious legacy. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father's girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Summer doesn't know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there's more of Kristina in her than she'd like to believe. When her aunt gets married and the only family she's ever known crumbles, Autumn's compulsive habits lead her to drink. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated.Īutumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. Hunter is 19, 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. 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 20 years. Hunter, Autumn, and Summer - three of Kristina Snow's five children - live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names.

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