YA Book Tour- Nevada

Next up on the YA book tour of the United States is Ellen Hopkins' Crank for Nevada. Fair warning this is another one that deals with drug addiction.

Kristina is a good girl, who as a bad girl inside of her who she calls Bree.  One summer, after eight years of total absence in her life, she goes to visit her father.  He is possibly the poster boy for dead beat dad.  At her father's she meets Adam/Buddy who is her first boyfriend, and the boy along with her father that introduces her to the monster or crank.

When she goes back home, the monster follows her.  She gets deeper into her addiction, even experimenting with new drugs and different ways to have the monster.

This book is definitely not my style.  First off, it is not a subject matter I can relate to at all.  Then there is the fact I feel no emotional connection with the characters.  One of its biggest drawbacks for me is the style it was written in.  It is not novel really, but a collection of poems that tell a story.  Someone of those poems have a very strange layout to them.  I don't know if this is because I read it on my Kindle or not, but some the text got really small and hard to see.

Kristina/Bree says she is not schizophrenic in the beginning, but at times it sure seems like she is.  She has a lot in common the main character from Beneath a Meth Moon because both seem like very weak willed girls. Both let a boy they like get them hooked on drugs.  Kristina really gets on my nerves in her concept of love.  She knows a boy all of like 3 days and has decided she is love with him, and then is shocked when it doesn't last.

If you want to skip a book in the tour, this is one that you probably won't miss.

Currently Reading:
Revived
by Cat Patrick