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I've never read anything like this before and I am hooked. The tale is disturbingly beautiful, emotionally jarring, and elaborately constructed.

She's able to construct a linear narrative out of a series of concrete poems where readers become entangled in all of Kristina'a dilemmas. Readers can't help sympathizing with her regardless of all of the messed up choices she's made.Īs with the first book, I was mesmerized at Hopkins' narrative. The story is sad she becomes embroiled in dealing meth and and contemplates prostitution. Juggling several "boyfriends" at a time, Kristina recognizes that what she's doing in wrong, but is reactive as opposed to being proactive in terms of her addiction. After being kicked out of her house and denied access to her son, she finds herself at the mercy of the monster. In this follow-up to Kristina's sordid tale, she continues to chronicle her life with the monster (crystal meth). (Aug.After I finished Crank, I practically sped my way to Barnes and Noble go get this book, the second in the series. But in the end, readers will be amazed at how quickly they work their way through this thick book-and by how much they learn about crystal meth and the toll it takes, both on addicts and their families. She again experiments with form, sometimes writing two parallel poems that can be read together or separately (sometimes these experiments seem a bit cloying, as in “Santa Is Coming,” a concrete poem in the shape of a Christmas tree). The author expertly relays both plot points and drug facts through verse, painting Kristina's self-narrated self-destruction through clean verses (“My face is hollow-/cheeked, spiced with sores”). Cash and carry”) and eventually even robs her mother's house with her equally addicted boyfriend. She gets kicked out of her house after her baby gets hurt on her watch, starts dealing for the Mexican Mafia (“No problem. maybe 90 percent pure,” Kristina quickly loses control again. Getting/ out of this deep well/ of monotony I'm/ slowly drowning in.” When her former connection turns her on to “glass”: “Mexican meth, as/ good as it comes. Kristina now lives in her mother's Reno home with her baby, but constantly dreams of “getting/ high. Hopkins's hard-hitting free-verse novel, a sequel, picks up where Crank