Blood Oath: At her birthday party in Crank, Kristina gets high on ecstasy and ends up making some kind of blood pact with some other people there.Based on a True Story: The trilogy is based on Hopkins’ real-life daughter, Cristal, and her addiction to methamphetamine.To be fair, Bryce never brings it up either. The Baby Trap: Autumn deliberately does not mention birth control to Bryce, believing that he will never leave her if she ends up pregnant.Babies Make Everything Better: Autumn tries to invoke this by not using protection with Bryce.Especially so in Fallout, when Marie has become a successful novelist who has written a series of popular verse novels based on Kristina’s meth addiction. Author Avatar: Kristina’s mother, Marie, is one for Hopkins.Attempted Rape: Happens to Autumn at her Aunt Cora’s wedding.Donald and David are this to Hunter occasionally in Fallout. Annoying Younger Sibling: Jake to Kristina in Crank and Glass.Fallout contains a family tree that reveals a few details not otherwise revealed in the story, like the name of Summer's father and the surname of Ron, Donald, and David.All There in the Manual: A companion book to Crank and Glass called Flirtin’ with the Monster features a collection of essays on the series, as well as a series of essays from Hopkins and her family discussing the real-life events that inspired the series.The series is loosely based on the experiences of Hopkins' own daughter, Cristal, and her own struggle with methamphetamine addiction.

The third novel, Fallout, focuses on Kristina's three oldest children, all of whom have grown up without their biological mother and struggle with their own issues as a result of their mother's addiction and abandonment of them. The first two novels, Crank and Glass, center on teenager Kristina Snow, who develops an addiction to methamphetamine that quickly takes control of her life. Crank, Glass, and Fallout are a trilogy of verse novels by Ellen Hopkins.

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