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"Happiness, you see, is just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books."
This is an emotional read. Burned is about a girl, Pattyn, (!beautiful name!) who is from a strict Mormon family with an abusive, alcoholic father who hides his real face underneath his religious face. I know nothing about Mormons, but I do know psychotics when I read about them. Due to her father's abuse, Pattyn's mother has been delegated to breeder and frequent punching bag. She slovenly lies around all day watching reality tv and letting her daughters run the household and care for the younger girls. She is no help at all but 100% neglectful. This is the life that is expected of Pattyn and her sisters. They will do this until they marry a nice Mormon boy and have children of their own.
Like all intelligent teenagers, Pattyn begins to ask the big questions. What is her self-worth? Is there a God? What is a woman’s role? Why is the balance of power within her community (I use this word very loosely and if you read the book you will understand) one where men have it and women lack it? What is sex? What is love? Is she capable of loving and being loved? Again, like all teenagers, she tries to discover who she is. She definitely doesn't want her parent's life.
This journey of self discovery is one we all travel and I loved going on that journey with her, but it was a heartbreaking road. While reading, one part of me knew this is just a book but another part couldn't help but think why some people's lives are so difficult and others just really have no idea. Deep thoughts. Deep feels. HUGE topics.
This book has a lot of generic storytelling occurances but it is Ellen Hopkins free verse poetry that elevates the narrative. Each page is pretty cool to look at. Her books flow beautifully and the pacing is fast. I didn’t want the book to end. (It ends abruptly.) I’m looking forward to the next book to find out what happens next for Pattyn and her sisters.
This is an emotional read. Burned is about a girl, Pattyn, (!beautiful name!) who is from a strict Mormon family with an abusive, alcoholic father who hides his real face underneath his religious face. I know nothing about Mormons, but I do know psychotics when I read about them. Due to her father's abuse, Pattyn's mother has been delegated to breeder and frequent punching bag. She slovenly lies around all day watching reality tv and letting her daughters run the household and care for the younger girls. She is no help at all but 100% neglectful. This is the life that is expected of Pattyn and her sisters. They will do this until they marry a nice Mormon boy and have children of their own.
Like all intelligent teenagers, Pattyn begins to ask the big questions. What is her self-worth? Is there a God? What is a woman’s role? Why is the balance of power within her community (I use this word very loosely and if you read the book you will understand) one where men have it and women lack it? What is sex? What is love? Is she capable of loving and being loved? Again, like all teenagers, she tries to discover who she is. She definitely doesn't want her parent's life.
This journey of self discovery is one we all travel and I loved going on that journey with her, but it was a heartbreaking road. While reading, one part of me knew this is just a book but another part couldn't help but think why some people's lives are so difficult and others just really have no idea. Deep thoughts. Deep feels. HUGE topics.
This book has a lot of generic storytelling occurances but it is Ellen Hopkins free verse poetry that elevates the narrative. Each page is pretty cool to look at. Her books flow beautifully and the pacing is fast. I didn’t want the book to end. (It ends abruptly.) I’m looking forward to the next book to find out what happens next for Pattyn and her sisters.
Wow. I had been wanting to read some of Hopkins books since I have had girls coming in EVERY DAY before school to see if the ones they hadn't already read were back in yet. Every time I put one in my bag to take it home, someone came in looking for it. But, I brought this one home for the summer and wow! Gripping, written in the most amazing free verse with form, if that makes any sense - many of the poems that make up the long book are in specific shapes that really add to the feeling/mood of the story. In any case, I now know what the pull is, although I believe her other titles deal with drug use/abuse, this one is about a mormon teenage girl finding her true self and what that means. My heartrate really rose while I was reading it towards the end of the book. It is both empowering and hearwrenching at the same time and does not end on a pretty note. I think readers who like this would do well to move on to Jodi Picoult, Chris Bohjalian (or ALex Flinn, Sarah Dessen, Laurie Halse Anderson) if they're not yet into reading adult books. I can't wait to read her other titles - just like my students!
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
another one day read! i haven’t read an ellen hopkins book in forEVER and her books always bring back a lot of memories for me. the ending of this one was CRAZY and i’m highly debating ordering the sequel on amazon so i can read it asap!
Like Ellen Hopkins' other novels, this is written in free verse format and does an excellent job of getting inside of the protagonist's head. This round, it's centered around a teenage Mormon girl struggling with her faith and identity in a very strict patriarchal home. Her father is an alcoholic who beats their mother, who bears him children after children as per what her faith tells her.
Pattyn reminded me a bunch of many of the girls I went to middle school and high school with--girls who were interested in sex and boys but didn't feel like they could express much of that interest due to their oppressive religion. Hopkins does a great job of illustrated how many girls of the LDS faith struggle with the conflicts of what their religion tells them to do and what they want to do. It's incredibly realistic in that manner.
Unlike her other novels, this isn't about a teenager who is abusing anything--she's being abused by her church and her father. She has some pent-up anger issues, which really take head at the end when things just go from bad to worse. I wish Hopkins would have fleshed out the ending a bit--while I enjoy things being open-ended sometimes, it just felt a bit off with this book.
Fairly depressing at the end, but definitely a good, compelling read. Overall, very realistic, even if I do take beef with Hopkins' apparent belief that sex = pregnancy.
Pattyn reminded me a bunch of many of the girls I went to middle school and high school with--girls who were interested in sex and boys but didn't feel like they could express much of that interest due to their oppressive religion. Hopkins does a great job of illustrated how many girls of the LDS faith struggle with the conflicts of what their religion tells them to do and what they want to do. It's incredibly realistic in that manner.
Unlike her other novels, this isn't about a teenager who is abusing anything--she's being abused by her church and her father. She has some pent-up anger issues, which really take head at the end when things just go from bad to worse. I wish Hopkins would have fleshed out the ending a bit--while I enjoy things being open-ended sometimes, it just felt a bit off with this book.
Fairly depressing at the end, but definitely a good, compelling read. Overall, very realistic, even if I do take beef with Hopkins' apparent belief that sex = pregnancy.
this was the first book that i have read by Ellen Hopkins. i thought that i would not like her writing style but i have come to love it. i loved how she talked about important things that teens go through. something that most Author fall to talk about.i definitely recommended Reading this book. but you have to be a little bit older to read this or at least be maturate. Ellen Hopkins definitely make you care about the charterers. i was leaning to give this book 4.5 stars because of the end but i rounded to 5 stars.
One thing definitely is true about the books written by Ellen Hopkins - her novels cause some readers to get burned up! Some more than others, like this one - 'Burned'.
Pattyn Von Stratten, the narrator of 'Burned', lives in Utah? Nevada? It isn't clear.
Pattyn is seventeen years old and is the oldest of seven girls in a Mormon household. Her father, Stephen, is an alcoholic who beats Pattyn's mother several times a week. His idea of Mormonism is he is the boss in their home. Her mother also seems to believe her role in life is to not have any say in the problems which confront the Von Stratten family. She watches a lot of TV, leaving the housework and childcare to her oldest daughter, Pattyn.
The one thing her mother believes is her duty is to have as many children as possible. They especially want a boy to carry on the family name. Pattyn's mother has only birthed seven girls. Stephen named them all, and he named them all after famous generals: Georgia (George Patton), Roberta (Robert E. Lee), Davie (Jefferson Davis), Teddie (Theodore Roosevelt), Ulyssa (Ulysses S. Grant), Jackie (Jack Pershing), and Pattyn (George Patton).
Pattyn deeply disagrees with the doctrinaire Mormon lifestyle. She pines for the freedom of choice - no marriage, no kids. She is angry with her alcoholic mean father, and her lazy, submissive mother. She hates taking care of her younger sisters. The house is crowded and messy.
So. Like many teens, Pattyn begins to act out. She feels daring when she begins to secretly date, sort of, Derek Colthorpe (not a Mormon) from high school. She attends approved parties (to meet a husband), but smoking and drinking occur. Under the cover of target practice, she meets Derek for groping and kissing. Gossip spreads like wildfire and Pattyn is busted! Later, the kids in school snicker and tease her, and Derek ignores her. Pattyn punches one of the mocking girls, breaking her nose.
Stephen decides to send Pattyn to his estranged sister in eastern Nevada. She has a ranch, cows, horses, and a LOT of wild open country void of all humans and habitats. Supposedly, Stephen is punishing his daughter in exiling her.
Pattyn realizes, in her own words:
"This wasn't punishment.
It was freedom."
Pattyn learns how to ride a horse and other ranching skills. For the first time, she camps under the stars without any light pollution, or sounds, for miles. She meets another non-Mormon boy, leaving soon for college - fireworks! Is this love? Is unmarried sex evil, condemning her to hell? What about her religion, her family? What should she do?
There are all kinds of people in the world. Hopkins writes about those teens who do not follow the expected trajectory planned for them whatever the society that her protagonists and their parents live in. She also writes in free verse, another irritant to some.
I thought this novel realistic and well written. It goes deep on teen romance, the impact of violence/family/religion, sex and emotions. Written from Pattyn's point of view, I didn't notice any missteps. I recommend it to young teens, particularly girls. Girls should note that THE boy they feel is THE boy of their dreams may not actually be THE boy of their dreams, despite intense feelings. There are a lot of boys. Just saying.
That said, I have opinions. Stop reading now if all you wanted, gentle reader, is a synopsis and an overall viewpoint.
There are Mormon reviewers on Goodread who are upset about the portrayal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in this novel. What I noticed in reading these reviews:
-An assumption there is nothing wrong with the, to me, DEFINED roles and RIGID rules for women and men in Mormonism. (I hate DEFINED ROLES and RIGID RULES.)
-Women are happiest living primarily as mothers, cooks, doing housework and raising children, even if they have a college degree and don't work.
-The defined role for women to agree to be obedient to those ultimate decisions by men after a discussion of viewpoints, and dropping their own objections and ideas, with their men is a good thing, not bad.
-The women's role of being wife, housewife and mother is not a peonage, or the smaller and slave role in marriage, but one of equality - just different, not unequal. These different roles are somehow equal (despite all evidence to the contrary), blessed by God, and these different roles are what works best for men and women. Women are happy in their place and will go to heaven if they agree to give men the lead in all decisions.
-Mormons do not condone the behavior of violent men who beat women. It is not 'correction.' At least some reviewers say with a great deal of conviction and faith in TCOJCOLDS.
-The rituals described in the book are not the Mormon religion as these reviewers know it - they do not attend three-hour temple meetings. There are no characters like Bishop Crandall in TCOJCOLDS who give lectures on the submissive and obedient roles God expects of Good Mormon Women. Church elders are NEVER, EVER, in denial when women mention fathers and husbands, some of whom are friends and relatives of the bishops, are beating up the women and girls in the family. So, EVERYTHING in this novel doesn't EVER happen in TCOJCOLDS.
-A comment by Pattyn that she does not notice much of Jesus being present in her religion is so wrong! After all, Jesus is in the church's name!
Ok then, complaints seen and noted. But I cannot agree. These above opinions are near-sighted, oblivious, provincial, ignorant, and as blinkered as an ostrich burying its head in the dirt to avoid incoming danger. These simple-minded opinions of religious reviewers are representative of everything which caused me to leave my religion behind. The religious rigidity and rules fundamentalists of every faith deem essential to their lives was a f*kcing painful deprived prison to me. Plus, it seems the broken bones and facial scars and painful bruises of beatings, whippings and the everpresent daily fear of being hurt or killed for maybe twenty years are often dismissed by the above religious reviewers as imaginary or unimportant. Adding insult to injury, many religious people blame the kids for 'acting out' and misbehaving, ignoring the naturally-occurring emotional results of cruelty, neglect, abuse, deprivations and depraved adult behaviors. Ever hear of PTSD? Religious parental and community faith cannot overcome the mental and emotional agonies of the unrecognized sources of abuse behind a lot of teenage 'acting out.' The response of many religious people to the homelife agony of little children is often denial and more abuse (i.e., 'corrective' beatings and more punishments to force kids to shut up about it).
When academically brilliant or talented women are counseled by religious leaders to be subservient and obedient to the men in their lives, to obedience to those men who clearly are stupid, addicted, selfish or brutal, then common sense and survival instincts overwhelm any religious feelings or love of any God for me. The patriarchal advice or commands from male bishops/ministers/clerics/imans/rabbis declaring that this obedient-child-bearing-child-rearing-so-called 'feminine' role is the way women will get to a heaven ruled by a another male God who supposedly instructed such a backseat legs-up role for women on Earth, and who will continue to demand bending-over obedience from women no matter the pain and sacrifice and suffering, I prefer missing such a patriarchal reward. I prefer the forever silence of the grave to accepting beatings, whippings, forced unwilling sex and bearing unwanted children in a painful sacrificial marriage of all of what makes life worth living for MY mind, spirit and body. I prefer attending college and earning my own money. I'd rather make my own mistakes and discoveries instead of living with the poor decisions and philosophies which suit another person but not me. If religious people cannot understand my inability to desire marital agony and self-sacrifice from being married to a bad husband simply because a God has proclaimed it my lot in life, that's tough. Move along. I am living in the reality you refuse to adequately explain with your mythologies...
Religious people do not seem to understand one rigid defined role for life does not suit everyone, especially a continuing lifetime role of housework, emotional subservience, marriage and raising children. This rigid single role sours many over time about the institution of normal marriages (men and women), even destroying love, faith and ambition, along with whatever possibilities a person could have realized without the rigidity of roles. Religious people appear to not see people change as they age, from being a teen to becoming an elder - the mind, emotions and wants of a teen are not the same as someone middle-aged or elderly - and not see that talents and goals grow or disappear with age, education and experience.
Especially evil in the eyes of many is the insistence of many of the religious to deny wrongdoing, rape, cruelty, injustice, beatings and drunkenness among their faithful. Often, the only remedies offered by the religious if they DO recognize abuse or poverty is to pray about it. As one who has suffered brutal beatings, I can testify no, not, no prayer ever took away the pain or feelings of rage and injustice. All religion did was make me question my religion and my elders because of the obvious gender inequalities and sufferings, the agonies I was supposed to bear up under and maybe even be killed by one day for the glory of God (and why the f*kc did He never help or heal me). So, I did research, studied history and sociology and psychology and lost my faith. A secular education IS power.
A bit of advice to the faithful - ignoring or denying how terrible some fathers and mothers are with their families because you believe your God does not permit such things, or that it must be God's will (and exactly why does God say you should have a wonderful life but mine should be lived as a three or five year old being raped, starved, enslaved and beaten, thrown into a closet for days or being forced to endure torture all night from an addicted/mentally ill/fundamentalist parent), or saying to yourself it is because God wants to teach a lesson of spiritual growth to the parent or community by allowing the parent/enabling society to destroy/torture/kill/rape little helpless kids, is not entirely a winning strategy to convince non-believers to become believers. Teaching a cruel/addicted parent a religious lesson of faith through permitting them to hurt, damage or kill their kids does not appear to work very well in creating mentally-balanced kids.
For the edification of those living in states with lots of empty uninhabited spaces without many large cities or people, like Nevada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Nevada, there are states crammed with millions of people living alongside freeway corridors of heavy traffic and always available amenities and supplies 24/7:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Washington
I am a Big City kid, and the surrounding 'towns' often begin where the nearby town boundary stops across a street, with only a sign, maybe, showing where a town stops and another begins. Life is WAY different than living in Nevada or Utah. I've only been on a horse three times when I was a tourist in vacation. I've never fired a gun, seen a cougar except in zoos, and I positively HATE camping.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde.
Pattyn Von Stratten, the narrator of 'Burned', lives in Utah? Nevada? It isn't clear.
Pattyn is seventeen years old and is the oldest of seven girls in a Mormon household. Her father, Stephen, is an alcoholic who beats Pattyn's mother several times a week. His idea of Mormonism is he is the boss in their home. Her mother also seems to believe her role in life is to not have any say in the problems which confront the Von Stratten family. She watches a lot of TV, leaving the housework and childcare to her oldest daughter, Pattyn.
The one thing her mother believes is her duty is to have as many children as possible. They especially want a boy to carry on the family name. Pattyn's mother has only birthed seven girls. Stephen named them all, and he named them all after famous generals: Georgia (George Patton), Roberta (Robert E. Lee), Davie (Jefferson Davis), Teddie (Theodore Roosevelt), Ulyssa (Ulysses S. Grant), Jackie (Jack Pershing), and Pattyn (George Patton).
Pattyn deeply disagrees with the doctrinaire Mormon lifestyle. She pines for the freedom of choice - no marriage, no kids. She is angry with her alcoholic mean father, and her lazy, submissive mother. She hates taking care of her younger sisters. The house is crowded and messy.
So. Like many teens, Pattyn begins to act out. She feels daring when she begins to secretly date, sort of, Derek Colthorpe (not a Mormon) from high school. She attends approved parties (to meet a husband), but smoking and drinking occur. Under the cover of target practice, she meets Derek for groping and kissing. Gossip spreads like wildfire and Pattyn is busted! Later, the kids in school snicker and tease her, and Derek ignores her. Pattyn punches one of the mocking girls, breaking her nose.
Stephen decides to send Pattyn to his estranged sister in eastern Nevada. She has a ranch, cows, horses, and a LOT of wild open country void of all humans and habitats. Supposedly, Stephen is punishing his daughter in exiling her.
Pattyn realizes, in her own words:
"This wasn't punishment.
It was freedom."
Pattyn learns how to ride a horse and other ranching skills. For the first time, she camps under the stars without any light pollution, or sounds, for miles. She meets another non-Mormon boy, leaving soon for college - fireworks! Is this love? Is unmarried sex evil, condemning her to hell? What about her religion, her family? What should she do?
There are all kinds of people in the world. Hopkins writes about those teens who do not follow the expected trajectory planned for them whatever the society that her protagonists and their parents live in. She also writes in free verse, another irritant to some.
I thought this novel realistic and well written. It goes deep on teen romance, the impact of violence/family/religion, sex and emotions. Written from Pattyn's point of view, I didn't notice any missteps. I recommend it to young teens, particularly girls. Girls should note that THE boy they feel is THE boy of their dreams may not actually be THE boy of their dreams, despite intense feelings. There are a lot of boys. Just saying.
That said, I have opinions. Stop reading now if all you wanted, gentle reader, is a synopsis and an overall viewpoint.
There are Mormon reviewers on Goodread who are upset about the portrayal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in this novel. What I noticed in reading these reviews:
-An assumption there is nothing wrong with the, to me, DEFINED roles and RIGID rules for women and men in Mormonism. (I hate DEFINED ROLES and RIGID RULES.)
-Women are happiest living primarily as mothers, cooks, doing housework and raising children, even if they have a college degree and don't work.
-The defined role for women to agree to be obedient to those ultimate decisions by men after a discussion of viewpoints, and dropping their own objections and ideas, with their men is a good thing, not bad.
-The women's role of being wife, housewife and mother is not a peonage, or the smaller and slave role in marriage, but one of equality - just different, not unequal. These different roles are somehow equal (despite all evidence to the contrary), blessed by God, and these different roles are what works best for men and women. Women are happy in their place and will go to heaven if they agree to give men the lead in all decisions.
-Mormons do not condone the behavior of violent men who beat women. It is not 'correction.' At least some reviewers say with a great deal of conviction and faith in TCOJCOLDS.
-The rituals described in the book are not the Mormon religion as these reviewers know it - they do not attend three-hour temple meetings. There are no characters like Bishop Crandall in TCOJCOLDS who give lectures on the submissive and obedient roles God expects of Good Mormon Women. Church elders are NEVER, EVER, in denial when women mention fathers and husbands, some of whom are friends and relatives of the bishops, are beating up the women and girls in the family. So, EVERYTHING in this novel doesn't EVER happen in TCOJCOLDS.
-A comment by Pattyn that she does not notice much of Jesus being present in her religion is so wrong! After all, Jesus is in the church's name!
Ok then, complaints seen and noted. But I cannot agree. These above opinions are near-sighted, oblivious, provincial, ignorant, and as blinkered as an ostrich burying its head in the dirt to avoid incoming danger. These simple-minded opinions of religious reviewers are representative of everything which caused me to leave my religion behind. The religious rigidity and rules fundamentalists of every faith deem essential to their lives was a f*kcing painful deprived prison to me. Plus, it seems the broken bones and facial scars and painful bruises of beatings, whippings and the everpresent daily fear of being hurt or killed for maybe twenty years are often dismissed by the above religious reviewers as imaginary or unimportant. Adding insult to injury, many religious people blame the kids for 'acting out' and misbehaving, ignoring the naturally-occurring emotional results of cruelty, neglect, abuse, deprivations and depraved adult behaviors. Ever hear of PTSD? Religious parental and community faith cannot overcome the mental and emotional agonies of the unrecognized sources of abuse behind a lot of teenage 'acting out.' The response of many religious people to the homelife agony of little children is often denial and more abuse (i.e., 'corrective' beatings and more punishments to force kids to shut up about it).
When academically brilliant or talented women are counseled by religious leaders to be subservient and obedient to the men in their lives, to obedience to those men who clearly are stupid, addicted, selfish or brutal, then common sense and survival instincts overwhelm any religious feelings or love of any God for me. The patriarchal advice or commands from male bishops/ministers/clerics/imans/rabbis declaring that this obedient-child-bearing-child-rearing-so-called 'feminine' role is the way women will get to a heaven ruled by a another male God who supposedly instructed such a backseat legs-up role for women on Earth, and who will continue to demand bending-over obedience from women no matter the pain and sacrifice and suffering, I prefer missing such a patriarchal reward. I prefer the forever silence of the grave to accepting beatings, whippings, forced unwilling sex and bearing unwanted children in a painful sacrificial marriage of all of what makes life worth living for MY mind, spirit and body. I prefer attending college and earning my own money. I'd rather make my own mistakes and discoveries instead of living with the poor decisions and philosophies which suit another person but not me. If religious people cannot understand my inability to desire marital agony and self-sacrifice from being married to a bad husband simply because a God has proclaimed it my lot in life, that's tough. Move along. I am living in the reality you refuse to adequately explain with your mythologies...
Religious people do not seem to understand one rigid defined role for life does not suit everyone, especially a continuing lifetime role of housework, emotional subservience, marriage and raising children. This rigid single role sours many over time about the institution of normal marriages (men and women), even destroying love, faith and ambition, along with whatever possibilities a person could have realized without the rigidity of roles. Religious people appear to not see people change as they age, from being a teen to becoming an elder - the mind, emotions and wants of a teen are not the same as someone middle-aged or elderly - and not see that talents and goals grow or disappear with age, education and experience.
Especially evil in the eyes of many is the insistence of many of the religious to deny wrongdoing, rape, cruelty, injustice, beatings and drunkenness among their faithful. Often, the only remedies offered by the religious if they DO recognize abuse or poverty is to pray about it. As one who has suffered brutal beatings, I can testify no, not, no prayer ever took away the pain or feelings of rage and injustice. All religion did was make me question my religion and my elders because of the obvious gender inequalities and sufferings, the agonies I was supposed to bear up under and maybe even be killed by one day for the glory of God (and why the f*kc did He never help or heal me). So, I did research, studied history and sociology and psychology and lost my faith. A secular education IS power.
A bit of advice to the faithful - ignoring or denying how terrible some fathers and mothers are with their families because you believe your God does not permit such things, or that it must be God's will (and exactly why does God say you should have a wonderful life but mine should be lived as a three or five year old being raped, starved, enslaved and beaten, thrown into a closet for days or being forced to endure torture all night from an addicted/mentally ill/fundamentalist parent), or saying to yourself it is because God wants to teach a lesson of spiritual growth to the parent or community by allowing the parent/enabling society to destroy/torture/kill/rape little helpless kids, is not entirely a winning strategy to convince non-believers to become believers. Teaching a cruel/addicted parent a religious lesson of faith through permitting them to hurt, damage or kill their kids does not appear to work very well in creating mentally-balanced kids.
For the edification of those living in states with lots of empty uninhabited spaces without many large cities or people, like Nevada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Nevada, there are states crammed with millions of people living alongside freeway corridors of heavy traffic and always available amenities and supplies 24/7:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Washington
I am a Big City kid, and the surrounding 'towns' often begin where the nearby town boundary stops across a street, with only a sign, maybe, showing where a town stops and another begins. Life is WAY different than living in Nevada or Utah. I've only been on a horse three times when I was a tourist in vacation. I've never fired a gun, seen a cougar except in zoos, and I positively HATE camping.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes