Sunday, May 15, 2011

Truth Be Told

Truth Be Told


Soundtrack Saturday: Three Days Grace

Posted: 14 May 2011 10:53 AM PDT

Each week there will be a linky posted on this site. This new feature will help other readers find new books and maybe even some awesome music! I hope this is interesting enough to add a post to your weekly schedule while still making it easy to follow along.


RULES:
  • Write a post that includes a music video or song title that relates to a book you are reading that week, or just finished reading.
  • Include the button image in the post and link back to Truth Be Told so others can participate.
  • Include the book title, author, and synopsis (if possible), so others can hear about the awesome read!
  • Link up your posts!
  • Visit the blogger above you and leave a nice comment.
  • Visit as many other bloggers as you would like to!
This week my Soundtrack Saturday is I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace.

I think this song captures some of those "I hate you but love you" feelings the kids have.

Fallout by Ellen Hopkins Synopsis

Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow's five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. 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.

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. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she's ever known crumbles, Autumn's compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there's more of Kristina in her than she'd like to believe. Summer doesn't know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father's girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother's notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together—Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle.
 
Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family's story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person's problem.


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