It’s no doubt a bleak tale but it effectively brings to life the harsh realities of sex trafficking and child prostitution and what many are forced to undergo. Traffick is their follow-up story that once again forces these same characters to face their demons while giving them the opportunity to find some semblance of a future that none of them ever thought they would live to witness. What’s most shocking is how vastly different their stories are yet how they all seem to wind up in the same situations: selling their bodies in order to survive. And Whitney who ends up with an older man simply because he gives her the attention she craves. Cody and his family find themselves in a financial hole after the death of his stepfather and he begins collecting money anyway he can. Eden is sent to a religious reform camp after her parents discover she has a boyfriend. Ginger is forced to run away after she’s raped and finds out that her mother collected cash from the experience. It told the story of five individuals: Seth is kicked out of his home after his father finds out he’s gay. Tricks is a novel that leaves you haunted for a group of incredibly real individuals that wound up in unimaginable situations. Heartwrenching and hopeful, Traffick takes us on five separate but intertwined journeys through the painful challenges of recovery, rehabilitation, and renewal to forgiveness and love. In her bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduced us to five memorable characters tackling these enormous questions: Eden, the preacher’s daughter who turns tricks in Vegas and is helped into a child prostitution rescue Seth, the gay farm boy disowned by his father who finds himself without money or resources other than his own body Whitney, the privileged kid coaxed into the life by a pimp and whose dreams are ruined in a heroin haze Ginger, who runs away from home with her girlfriend and is arrested for soliciting an undercover cop and Cody, whose gambling habit forces him into the life, but who is shot and left for dead.Īnd now, in Traffick, these five are faced with the toughest question of all: Is there a way out?How these five teenagers face the aftermath of their decisions and experiences is the soul of this story that exposes the dark, ferocious underbelly of the child trafficking trade. Traffick Series: Tricks #2Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depositoryįive teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this riveting companion to the New York Times bestselling Tricks from Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book free from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

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