Impulse (review)

This is a different book than what I have been doing post for and that is because I didn’t finish reading my book in time and therefore I wouldn’t be able to provide an adequate summary. The book that I am posting a summary on I finished reading right before we started doing the independent reading so it’s still pretty fresh in my mind.
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Title: Impulse
Genre: Fiction – coming of age – for teens
Before I read the book Impulse I knew nothing about it, although I have read every other book by the author so I was very excited to see that she had another book out. I really like Ellen’s book so I was definitely looking forward to reading it. And in the end it fell short of nothing.
The summary:
One thing you should know about this book before I carry on: Instead of chapters the author uses people, every “chapter” is a different point of view from a different character. And the story shows how each character gets to know each other.
The story is about three teens coming together: Tony, Vanessa, and Conner. They are three totally different people living in three totally different worlds but they have one thing in common, and that is Aspen Springs psychiatric hospital for people who have attempted suicide.
Vanessa is a cutter. She lives with her grandma and her brother because her mom has issues and her dad is in the war. She ended up in aspen springs because she cut herself in the bathroom but this time she cut to deep and her brother found her in a blood stained bath tub.
Tony is a pill popper. He lives with his mom who prostitutes herself for money, and his dad ran away a long time ago. He’s suffered problems with all of his moms boyfriends and thinks that’s the reason why he suffers from sexual confusion. He’s basically had a really tough childhood and when his lost father says enough is enough he pays for his stay in Aspen Springs.
Conner grabbed the gun. Connor comes from a rich family and is always being compared to his older sister. Nothing he does is good enough for his parents and they get especially mad when they find out his has an obsession with older woman. The day his mom comes home and finds his Calvin cline shirt and his body covered in blood from a shot to the heart is when he finds himself on a trip to Aspen springs.
The story itself consist of them all meeting up in aspen springs and once they all hit a certain level At the hospital they can go on a camping trip and that’s when all the trouble starts and an up expected turn takes its worse for conner.
All in all I really liked this book; it was a very nice read. All of her books appear really thick because of her spacing, and she uses a lot of fragment sentences which I like. I would recommend this book for teens who are going through the same problems, if your having a hard time with life this is a good book to relate to.