Glass by Ellen Hopkins: A Review
Don’t read if you have not read the book, this may give too much information away.
Ever think you are in control only to find out that you are not and you are in way over your head?
Have you ever been pressured to do something you know is wrong, but think to yourself that one try will not hurt until you are addicted and cannot find a way out?
Well, that is the life that Kristina Georgia Snow has everyone follow in Glass written by Ellen Hopkins.
Glass is the continuing story of Crank. Crank is about a teenager who tries crank for the first time and falls in love with the monster. The book ends with the teen is pregnant with the baby of the man who raped her.
Glass picks up shortly after the teenager named Kristina, also known as Bree, has the baby. She is not even 18 years old yet. She names the baby Hunter. For a while she had given up on the monster, to save her life and the baby’s. However a few short months later she crawls back to the monster. One way includes lying to her family.
When she goes back to the monster, she meets Trey. A roommate of a friend who would become the love of her life.
However, one day being left alone with Hunter, things take a turn for the worse. She falls asleep and Hunter rolls under a chair and gets hurt. Kristina gets kicked out of her own home, and she is not allowed to take her own child.
She goes to live with Trey’s cousin Brad and his two children; Latreya and Devon. The two girls do not like the fact that Kristina lives with them, because she is not in fact their mother. Eventually their mother does come back and Kristina is forced to leave.
This time after much convincing and a loss of what to do, Kristina
and Trey get their own apartment, but are poor and the only way they can keep the place is to steal money and deal meth, to pay back their dealer so they can get more meth to sale.
Eventually they also are forced to leave their apartment where they make the choice of living in their car and eating only food like McDonald’s.
Sleeping off a monster buzz, they get pulled over by a cop for parking somewhere they are not supposed to. The cop asks to search the car, to find a lockbox full of meth. Kristina’s mother also turned them in for stealing from her.
As the author states in the end of the book, Kristina and Trey will no longer share an apartment, a car, a bed, a pipe, a cigarette, a kiss, promises, dreams or vows. The only thing they will share is a baby. That is, if they get out of jail in time.
I hope you all enjoyed this book as much as I did. Ellen Hopkins is a terrific writer. Her books are so raw, so real and full of truth.
Take care all.
Liked it
The ending was so sad,
I almost cried,
She should have got
all the good things, you know?
i havent read the book yet and i know i shouldnt have read this either if i didnt read the book.when i read the book crank i almost cried,it was so good.what the hell happened to chase i miss him.
This book is awsome. I read Crank and also loved it. The book Glass does talk about drugs and sex and uses bad words but if your child is 14 or older they should read it. It really makes you take a good look at life.
these books are outstanding and everyone should read these.
maybe it will teach people that drugs are bad.
but seriously these books are just amazing. i love how you can read these two books 2 different ways.
and just like veronica said, it does give you a good look at life. it changed mine a bit.
This book so far has been amazing.
I am reading it now. Each page makes me want to keep reading to find out wat happens. I recomend any teenage child should read any of the books Ellen Hopkins has wrote,(Crank, Glass, Impulse, or Burned.) They all have a different outlook on life that any child could look up to
all her books are great but i wanna no what happens to kristina after Glass
lexus, she got what she deserved i gues…
seriously now come on; what happened to chase??
I’m a 15 yr. old student at a highscool and I read 3 books so far by ellen hopkins. Alls i can say is amazing. I loved all three, Go Ask Alice, Crank, and Glass. All 3 books teach you about how easily hard drugs like that can mess you up and ruin your life before you know it. Before she knew she was in a hole, it was to late. I would recomend these to anyone.Love it.
Take care,Peaceeee
^^^^Syriah. Just saying that Go Ask Alice isn’t by Ellen Hopkins. Actually it was created from a journal of an anonomyous writer growing up in the 70s.
I have read crank, and im about to start reading glass. I cant wait to see what all happens to christina, i agree with everyone else teenagers should defenitly read this book. its changed the way i look at the world.
So all of you keep asking what happened to Chase. If you payed close attention it tells you in Glass what happened to him. He decided to move to California to go to college, and decided to stay there. Kristina never heard from him after this, and through her long walk with the monster, she was walking down a crowded street one day and ran into him…and his new wife. He had found a woman while at school and fell in love with her. They got married and were expecting a child. His new wife however mentioned that Chase talked about Kristina alot. He gave her a friendly hug, and they disappeared into the crowd again..
great book.
i loved it:D
it’s killing knowing i’m not going to know
what happend with the new pregnancy and kristina/bree’s
jail life.
i really liked both of the books crank and glass.
very easy, fast reading that captures you.
although i was disappointed in the ending of glass. i want to know what happens to kristina, hunter, trey, and her new baby. it just kinda..ended. not so good.
but i am planning on reading the others that ellen hopkins wrote. i love her style and the type of stories that she writes. she is ingenious.
Ya i read crank it was soo awsome i hardly ever read books but some said it was good so i tried it and i love it i am 12 i liked it because i can really relate to it it can really give u a good look at lifei really wanna read glass but they took the books out of the library at school :0 so im gonna try to go to our city library to read it
I love her books even though i only read crank and glass. i am disappointing in the ending. i didn’t really get it. Like, what rally happened? So kristina is pregnant with trey’s child, and they are both in jail…and then what? What happens to every one else? Hunter, her mom, scott, leigh, jake….? I would have liked it better if she gave us a better ending but it was good though, i like it.
i read crank and it was amazing i loved it
im going to start glass as soon as i get my hands on it.
i was readind this and i cant help but wonder what the heck happened to chase?
does she talk about him at all???
well in glass you will know what happens to chase. As you read the book it will tell you.
these two books(crank and glass) are just amazing!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t wait to read ellen hopkins other books-identical, burned, and impulse.
i just got done with crank and glass they were the best books ever!!!!!! but i want to know what happen to trey and kristina/bree. i also wanted to know how hunter grew up and if he knew the things he mother did
ok, so i read both CRANK and GLASS. Both are amazing and i love them both. i wish there was more after FALLOUT–the next one coming out, supposebly 2010. But, if FALLOUT covers everything and closes it, i guess i’ll be okay with it. i just can’t see the series stop… they are SOOOO good. i love ellen’s writing style and how she “keeps it real” with whatever she says. she deffinately doesn’t sugarcoat anything, and she shouldn’t. everyone needs to know what’s out there… and all this stuff she is talking about, IS IN FACT, out there. and just because people deny it, doesn’t mean it’s going to go away.
i loved these books
they’re so sad but so real
i wish she’d make another about
her life in jail, or after..
my friend TAYLOR MITCHELL AKA TAYTOR TOT
told me about this book. i went to the library and checked out the book when i read it i fell in LOVE with it. I wish she will make another book.
-i
-feel
-soooooooooooo
-sorry
-for
-her:(
cOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOl book. i agree with you girl she should write another book.
@#$%&*!”soccer gurrr”@!#$%&*
I loved both Crank and Glass. They are addictive.
As for Chase, it says somewhere that Kristina sees him again; he is married with kids.
I agree with some of you; the book did not end well. I think that’s the point: nothing will end well when drugs are involved.
I have read this book like 3 times, and
it never gets old. This is deffinetly one of the best books ive read. Its so easy to read too! lol
I deffinetly recommend this book to any teens,
even if you dont relate.
PEACE!
Ok people, glass is not the last kristina book. Fallout by ellen hopkins is coming out 2010 and it’s going to be the last book in the crank series. I hope kristina gets out of jail and has the baby then goes to rehab then she can get her baby back and her other baby hunter. I personally think her mom is sick because she kicked her daughter out when she needed help. I love these books. Highly recommend them to anyone who loves teen drama
Is there going to be another book!!!!!
i want to read it