Fallout or Sellout? Ellen Hopkins is an increasingly rising popular young adult writer. She released her first book, Crank, in 2004. At the time, Hopkins had just thought she was releasing a diary entry of what happened when her daughter “danced with the monster.” In Crank, Hopkins describes how her daughter, Kristina, took a trip to visit her low life father in Arizona for the first time in awhile. She met a few new people who belonged in the wrong crowd and her father wasn't the best protective system she had, so she met the “monster.” She left as Kristina and came back as Bree and also came back a completely different person. Hopkins goes into full detail on her daughter’s struggle with a tough addiction to cocaine. Kristina was no longer Kristina, she was Bree, whoever that was. By the end of Crank, Kristina ends up pregnant and swears she will sober up for her son. In the beginning of Glass, Hopkins second book of the series, Kristina does everything but turn her life around and she's bringing her baby into the mix. She leaves home and starts doing illegal things to keep up her habits. She moves from home to home, with man to man, and drug to even more serious drugs. Kristina, or Bree, finally gets to point where her child is taken away from her. By the end of the book, Kristina is completely out of control and is now pregnant again. Fallout is the third and final book of the Crank series. I had been greatly anticipating this book since I am a huge fan of Hopkins and her fans have been waiting since 2004 to see Kristina's fate. So, when the book finally came out, I couldn't put it down. It wasn't because it was fantastic like I had hoped, but I felt like I had to finish it to finish the series. The book was told from the perspective of three of her five children. Hunter, who is her oldest and who we learned about in the first two books, Autumn, and Summer. Each child lives a different life with different guardians, all not in the best situations. They also know of each other from other family members or Kristina herself, but they have yet to meet one another. Kristina is not in any of their lives, she's rarely in this book. The way the story is told in the perspective of three different characters with three different situations and settings makes the story a little confusing when they go from scene to scene. Once each story line caught up with one another is when it got really confusing, the story lines seem to be one mush and all over the place in my opinion. As I would read and get into one character’s story, it would switch over to the next and nothing made sense. This continued on throughout the story which really played a huge toll on the writing. Since Kristina really messed up her life, she messed up her children's life as well. Each child in the story has a different situation they have to overcome to be better than their mother. I really enjoyed following each problem and the way the characters handle it, but in the end, it seems as if none of those problems were fully resolved and there were questions that were not answered. It felt as if Hopkins just get all the kids together and end the story ignoring the issues. Perhaps she wanted the ending to be happy for the characters, but I know it left me aggravated with not knowing the answers to the issues the characters faced. Hopkins stated this was the final chapter for the Kristina series, so will those questions ever be answered? Probably not, but fans of Hopkins aren't happy with the ending of the series. The reason why her fans are so hooked to her books, and a personal favorite of mine, is her writing style which is all in a poetic type form. If Hopkins keeps ending her stories the way she has, the fans, including me, may look past the writing style and the poetry and find something else to read which won't disappoint like her last book did.