History Literature / CrankTrilogy

* YourCheatingHeart: By ''Fallout'', this has become a habit for Kristina. It’s shared by her son Hunter and her daughter Summer.
** This is also why Chase and his wife Amanda eventually divorce in ''Fallout''.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: [[spoiler: Autumn.]]

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Kristina smokes tobacco throughout ''Crank''. She gives up the habit during her pregnancy with Hunter, but picks it up again a few months after his birth. At one point it's that Kristina smoked the whole time she was pregnant with Summer.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Summer gets shuffled through several foster homes after her grandparents die, and is molested in one of them.

* FunctionalAddict: Kristina really wants to be this, but it never happens. Brad might be a closer example, given his insistence on keeping his dealing a secret from his daughters.

* RapeAsBackstory: Summer was molested by one of her father’s girlfriends when she was 3, and later raped by one of her foster parents.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: ''Fallout'' occasionally breaks up the action with newspaper articles that serve as epilogues for characters from the previous two books, like Trey's nieces and Robyn. [[spoiler: Almost none of the side characters really get a happy ending.]]

* ChildByRape: Hunter.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Kristina smokes tobacco throughout ''Crank''. She gives up the habit during her pregnancy with Hunter, but picks it up again a few months after his birth.

* EatingLunchAlone: Autumn.

* FunctionalAddict: Kristina really wants to be this, but it never happens.

* FourthDateMarriage: In the six months between ''Crank'' and ''Glass'', Chase manages to meet a new girlfriend, elope with her, and get her pregnant, and enough time has apparently passed for the pregnancy to be visible.

* ChristmasCake: Downplayed with Leigh; by the time of ''Fallout'', she is around forty years old and single, but no one seems to take note of it aside from Hunter, who feels very sorry for his aunt.

* TheBabyTrap: [[spoiler:Autumn toward Bryce, although it isn’t malicious and she doesn’t really go out of her way to set it up. But she does choose not to use birth control and she does think that the likely possibility of her being pregnant as a result will ensure that Bryce never leaves her.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:''Glass'' ends with Kristina and Trey in jail, facing the opportunity to reduce their sentences by turning in their dealer, which would likely put their lives in danger. Plus Kristina is pregnant and has been using meth regularly the entire time.]] We find out in ''Fallout'' that [[spoiler: Autumn, the baby from that pregnancy, turned out physically healthy if a bit bogged down with OCD, and Kristina and Trey took the deal to reduce their sentences, but while Trey eventually got clean and was happy about it, Kristina never managed to completely shake her addiction.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: Kristina's father was hardly around at all after divorcing her mother and doesn't see his children very much; on the occasions when he does come back into Kristina's life, things go very wrong very quickly. He doesn't seem to have gotten back in touch with Leigh at all; in ''Glass'' she reacts almost violently to him visiting for Hunter's baptism, and in ''Fallout'' she admits to Hunter that [[spoiler: she doesn't really feel the need to mourn him when he has a heart attack that he's unlikely to recover from.]]

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* WakingUpElsewhere: In Burned, Pattyn is knocked out cold and wakes up in the hospital some time later.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: ''Fallout'' occasionally breaks up the action with newspaper articles that serve as epilogues for characters from the previous two books, like Trey's nieces and Robyn.

* WakingUpElsewhere: In Burned, is knocked out cold and wakes up in the hospital some time later.

''Crank'', ''Glass'', and ''Fallout'' are a trilogy of verse novels by Creator/EllenHopkins. The first two novels, ''Crank'' and ''Glass'', center on teenager Kristina Snow, who develops an addiction to methamphetamine that quickly takes control of her life. The third novel, ''Fallout'', focuses on Kristina's three oldest children, all of whom have grown up without their biological mother and struggle with their own issues as a result of their mother's addiction and abandonment of them.

''Crank'', ''Glass'', and ''Fallout'' are a trilogy of verse novels by EllenHopkins. The first two novels, ''Crank'' and ''Glass'', center on teenager Kristina Snow, who develops an addiction to methamphetamine that quickly takes control of her life. The third novel, ''Fallout'', focuses on Kristina's three oldest children, all of whom have grown up without their biological mother and struggle with their own issues as a result of their mother's addiction and abandonment of them.

* VisitByDivorcedDad: Inverted in ''Crank''; the plot kicks off when Kristina pays a court-ordered visit to her father. Played straight in ''Glass'' when he comes to visit Kristina and Hunter with his girlfriend Linda Sue in tow. [[spoiler: A tragic version occurs in ''Fallout'', when Leigh and Kristina go to visit their father on what is expected to be his deathbed.]]

* DisappearedDad: Kristina’s parents divorced when she was young; her father lives in New Mexico.

* ForbiddenFruit: Summer and Kyle at first, not that it stops them. Summer later compares herself to Kristina on this basis, after learning that she herself was conceived as a result of her mother breaking up a pair of friends.

* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Well, it does exist, but it certainly doesn’t do poor Summer any good.

* DomesticAbuse: Ron to Kristina in ''Fallout''.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:''Glass'' ends with Kristina and Trey in jail, facing the opportunity to reduce their sentences by turning in their dealer, which would likely put their lives in danger. Plus Kristina is pregnant and has been using meth regularly the entire time.]]

* ForbiddenFruit: Summer and Kyle at first, not that it stops them.

Not related to the film ''{{Crank}}''.

Crank, Glass, and Fallout are a trilogy of verse novels by EllenHopkins. The first two novels, Crank and Glass, center around teenager Kristina Snow, who develops an addiction to methamphetamine that quickly takes control of her life. The third novel, Fallout, focuses on Kristina's three oldest children, all of whom have grown up without their biological mother and struggle with their own issues as a result of their mother's addiction and abandonment of them.

Not related to the film {{Crank}}.

!!Crank, Glass, and Fallout provide examples of:

* AllThereInTheManual: A companion book to Crank and Glass called Flirtin’ with the Monster features a collection of essays on the series, as well as a series of essays from Hopkins and her family discussing the real-life events that inspired the series.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Jake to Kristina in Crank and Glass. Donald and David are this to Hunter occasionally in Fallout.
* AttemptedRape: Happens to Autumn at her aunt Cora’s wedding. Gets interrupted by Trey.
* AuthorAvatar: Kristina’s mother Marie is one for Hopkins. Especially so in Fallout, when Marie has become a successful novelist who has written a series of popular verse novels based on Kristina’s meth addiction.
* TheBabyTrap: [[spoiler: Autumn towards Bryce, although it isn’t malicious and she doesn’t really go out of her way to set it up. But she does choose not to use birth control and she does think that the likely possibility of her being pregnant as a result will ensure that Bryce never leaves her.]]
* BasedOnATrueStory: The trilogy is based on Hopkins’ real life daughter Cristal and her addiction to methamphetamine.
* BloodOath: At her birthday party in Crank, Kristina gets high on ecstasy and ends up making some kind of blood pact with some other people there.

* BungledSuicide: Lince in Crank. She lives, but ends up having to relearn to walk and talk and such.

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Kristina smokes throughout Crank. She gives up the habit during her pregnancy with Hunter, but picks it back up again a few months after his birth.
* DepartmentOfSocialDisservices: Summer gets shuffled through several foster homes after her grandparents die, and is molested in one of them.

* DomesticAbuse: Ron to Kristina in Fallout.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Glass ends with Kristina and Trey in jail, faced with the opportunity to reduce their sentences by turning in their dealer, which would likely put their lives in danger. Plus Kristina is pregnant and has been using meth regularly the entire time.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Subverted in Crank and Glass, played straight in Fallout.

* HappilyAdopted: Hunter. [[spoiler: At the end of Fallout it’s said that all five of Kristina’s children now live with Marie.]]

* IdiotBall: In Fallout, [[spoiler: Autumn and Bryce jump into a sexual relationship without even considering the possibility of using birth control.]] Small wonder that by the end of the novel, [[spoiler: Autumn is heavily implied to be pregnant—but even worse, she’s actually happy about it because she thinks it will keep Bryce from leaving her, despite having no prior evidence that Bryce was even thinking about breaking up with her.]]

* RapeAsBackstory: Summer was molested by one of her father’s girlfriends when she was three, and later raped by one of her foster parents.
* RapeAsDrama: Kristina loses her virginity to Brendan’s rape in Crank, and she ends up giving birth to Hunter as a result.
* ReallyGetsAround: Kristina starts developing this in Glass and shows it more in Fallout.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Well, they exist, but they certainly don’t do poor Summer any good.
* TeenPregnancy: Kristina in Crank. Later implied with [[spoiler: Autumn]] in Fallout.

* YourCheatingHeart: By Fallout, this has become a habit for Kristina. It’s shared by her son Hunter and her daughter Summer.