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. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. He’s struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Hunter is nineteen, 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 twenty years.

Needless to say, this was a very devastating, but informative look into where making poor choices can lead.Hunter, Autumn, and Summer three of Kristina Snow’s five children live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. Even at other times within the book, I felt like everything just happened so fast! Now that could be the whole point with the drug, but not prior to the drug. One - the mother lets Kristina visit her estranged father and two - the 'action' begins with a snap of a finger. However, there were two major issues that prevented it from feeling realistic. Several times I shouted in my mind, 'WHAT!?! What are you doing?', so from that perspective - I was deeply involved and thought it was a great book.

Once the introduction turns into an acquaintance, it's a slippery slope for Kristina - one that is as uncontrollable as speeding down an iced-covered mountain on a round sled.This was a very scary book. Crystal meth (aka - crank, aka - the monster) is a highly addictive drug and Kristina (aka - Bree), a 17-year-old based on Hopkins' daughter, is introduced to 'the monster' as Bree.

Crank book series