
However, subverted into just being depressing backstories in most cases. Freudian Excuse: All protagonists in all of her stories have one.Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Played straight with Mikayla in Triangles averted with Vanessa in Impulse.Drugs Are Bad: Subverted in Crank and Glass, but comes close to crossing the line a few times.Downer Ending: Glass, and partially true with Impulse and Tricks.Deus Angst Machina: Impulse, Glass, and Tricks.Department of Child Disservices: Summer of Fallout goes through several foster homes after her grandparents die and was sexually abused in one of them.Abusive Parents: In pretty much every book.Debuted with Crank, a novel based on her daughter's experience with crystal meth.


All of her books are serious Doorstoppers. All of which are about everything crapsack in the teenage world. She is mostly famous for her verse novels, or narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry. Ellen Hopkins is an American freelance writer.
