Book: Glass
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Pages: 688
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Reviewed by: Taneisha
Amazon.com Price: $9.94
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Glass, by Ellen Hopkins, is the sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Crank. Glass begins where Crank left off.

Let me tell you a little about Crank before we get to Glass.

Crank is loosely based off Hopkins's daughter who had gotten addicted to crystal meth or 'crank'---a drug.

The main character, Kristina, goes to visit her birth father and becomes addicted to crank. She becomes a totally different person who she calls Bree. Bree's different; she would do everything Kristina would have never tried. Kristina falls more into the drug. Her father doesn't help, because he's doing crank with her.

She meets Adam who first introduced her to crank. The fall in love and he claims he will love Kristina forever. They drift apart once Kristina has to go home. Back at home, she meets Brendan, who is suppose to be good, but turns out to be bad. He forces himself onto her and she falls pregnant. Finally she meets Chase, the bad boy who is really good. He promise to live and take care of Kristina---until he has to move to California.

Now, we're onto to Glass. Kristina now thinks she can control the 'monster', crank better than before. She thinks that now that she has a baby. She can decide how much and when. It's a lie and it has her once again. She needs it to get through everyday that comes. She'll do anything for the monster. Even giving up the one thing that loves her most---her baby.

The story keeps you going, you don't want put it down. Reading Kristian's life, how it is, you're really hoping she'll stop taking crank. But she goes deeper and deeper in. To point where she is selling the drug and can't take care of her baby.

Everything that happens to Kristina, even though the consequences she pretty much deserved, you feel sorry for her. She's not going to stop. You kind of wish all the things that happen to her didn't. (I know I did. :(

The story is truly a work of art and Hopkins is really admirable and astonishing author. She tells like it is and doesn't hold back. Every word she writes is true. In the end, Hopkins hope you learn something about the nature of addiction.

What makes her books unique is that they are written in free verse poetry. Every poem put together, you feel like you're seeing everything Kristina sees. And everything she feels.

You can read Glass by itself, but I strongly encourage to pick up Crank first. You can really understand the story more.

So, I think you should defiantly go and pick up Glass. You should not be disappointed.