Crank!

It's been a while. I just finished reading such an amazing book called "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins. A book talking about how a girl, Kristina, who is your all american teenager. She gets good grades, she's a good student,but then once visits her dad, and gets a boyfriend, Adam, she gets introduced to the drug crystal meth, also known as crank. I've read this book last year as well and I've also read the sequel which is called "Glass". throughout the book, she struggles with the drug and has two different personalities. One, Kristina, the person who her family knows, then there's Bree, the person she becomes when taking the drug.

While reading this book, I kept on thinking about how Kristina felt about her life after she encountered the drug. How her mood has changed and how before she was using the drug, she was a normal average teenager. She cared about her family and she had nothing to worry about, but throughout the story, a bunch of different situations happen when crank takes over her body. Things change a whole lot once you start taking crank.

What Ellen Hopkins is trying to tell the reader is that a lot of bad and horrible things can happen when people take drugs. It can affect their mood, they way they act and it can make you seem like a whole different person. In the book, Kristina, transforms from her regular self, to Bree, a different person who has a different personality and in a way, the opposite of Kristina. This book was based on Ellen's daughter, so you can't say that this book isn't fiction. It talks about her daughter's experience with the drug and the situations that came out of it.

Yes, people do take drugs now a days. Young people and older people. People should read this book because it shows how Ellen's daughter life turned out once she took the drug. Me, after reading this book for the second time, I've thought twice about drugs and the affection of them. How crank, or any other drug can control your life.