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. It is also available for download from Overdrive.Hunter, Autumn, and Summer three of Kristina Snow’s five children live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. Impulse by Ellen Hopkins is available for checkout from the Mission Viejo Library. I highly recommend this book, and hope you find it as intriguing as I did! This book is definitely now in my top ten favorites. I did not think I would love this book as much as I did. From the moment I read the first page to when I closed the book at the end, I was obsessed. I would definitely read this book again and others by this author. For this book, I recommended you read it if you have a high maturity level. This book really changed my perspective on life, and made me appreciate that I have others around me.
This books made me feel all kinds of emotions, happiness, sadness, nervous, and many more. This book is one of the longest books I’ve ever read, 666 pages.Īlthough, the book is written in a poem style, I really enjoyed it. They all meet in a mental institution called Aspen Springs where they must fight their mental illness for a better life.
Tony struggles with pills, Vanessa with cutting, and Conner with suicidal thoughts. All who come from different backgrounds but are connected by mental illness. It follows the perspective of three teenagers, Tony, Conner, and Vanessa.
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