They all are struggling with suicide due to parental or relationship issues. Ellen Hopkins is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen young adult novels, as well as the adult novels Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath.She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. See the complete Impulse series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. The Impulse book series by Ellen Hopkins includes books Impulse and Perfect. They begin treatment at Aspen Springs residential center in pits of numb despair, unhappy to have failed and lacking human. Vanessa (razors), Tony (drugs) and Conner (gun) tried to close out / the ugliness, close / out the filthiness, / close out all light. In her book Impulse, there are three main characters. Related Series: Smart Pop, Crank, Burned, Tricks, Love Lies Beneath. In sharp, searing free verse divided into two-page chapters, Hopkins sketches three adolescents who have just attempted suicide. Although some of the letters suggest that their family has changed perspectives because the suicide attempts were so eye-opening to them, other families have unfortunately remain the same. Life on the Pages In Ellen Hopkins’ stories, she relates to many different kinds of mental illnesses and different kinds of drug abuse. He shoots himself.Īll three teenagers attempt to heal from their past while build new friendships and a foundation of a new life that they can grow from.īy the end of the novel, the trio must overcome physical challenges after reading letters that their family sent them from home. She cuts herself.Ĭonnor, a boy who has a supposedly perfect life, is always fighting to reach an unreachable level of expectations from his parents. Vanessa, a girl raised by her grandmother, lives with the guilt of her mother's overdose, lack of a father, and a boyfriend who dumped her because of her manic depression. Tony, a resentful child of his prostitute mother and father who left, copes with his poverty and homelessness by reaching out to older men. Luckily for them, family members took the initiative to send them to the hospital to help them with their inner demons. Impulse is the story of three teenagers whose lives intersect at Aspen Springs mental hospital when they all make one decision: to kill themselves.

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