Author Spotlight: Ellen Hopkins

Hello fellow readers, I'm here with another Fave author spotlight this week is Ellen Hopkins now i don't want to hear about some of the things she tweeted because what i enjoy are her books. Now not every book she writes is a new fave for me. I found this author back in high school and been reading her work ever since i started with Crank and just keep devouring her work every chance i get. As i write this I've read all her books, now their other works in anthologies and short stories i haven't read yet but will get to at some point. yes, I'll get the new book when it comes out and the next one. Hopkins goes for the more taboo topics the ones most people want to ignore and show the ugly side of the world and with me, it clicks I grew up in a single-parent home with a father that drinks too much and wanted to get high more the spend time with his child leave me to be taken care of my his mother so when i read crank and read about a father like that even though he wasn't the one taking care of the child she was just visiting her father it clicked i could have become this girl if i let my father introduce me to drug and i kept growing back for more of her writing her book impulse i read in like 4 or 5 days and that book is 666 pages long. it about suicide and mental disorders and it hit me and open my eyes to all the reasons people could want to end their life and we can never know someone's full story. Ellen Hopkins despite something bring light to some terrible things that go on in this world burned made me angry with the girl father trick shows all the ways people both boys and girls get into selling their bodies for money. Now no one perfect but if you like realistic fiction and want a different way since a lot of her books are in free verse these books are long but they fly by when you're reading them. THat this month Author spotlight, I'm hoping that I find even more author i love and have read a lot from before the end of the year. happy reading everyone