Although I'm familiar with other books which use this poetical technique, I've never seen it used to such creepy perfection. Each page is a different shape, direction and interplay of italics and plain text. To add to the overall eerie effect, Hopkins writes the entire book in sculpted verse. After her introduction to crank, or 'the monster' as she refers to it throughout the book, she discovers this wild, seductive, bad girl inside her named Bree. She was born and lived as Kristina for 16 years. So although Crank is technically a novel it's more correctly a fictionalized autobiography written from the perspective of the young teen, Kristina/Bree. Ellen Hopkins first novel is based on her own tragic experience as a mother of a crank (meth) addict. My daughter brought Crank home from the school library and also read it in a day it's positively riveting. I did not like this book at all and yet I am forced to admit it is powerful, important, scary-as-you-know-where and should be read by every parent of teenagers today. This is one of those books I can't give a star rating to-at least not by the definitions goodreads assigns.
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