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I read the Crank trilogy and was absolutely blown away by it, so I thought it was time I start working my way through Ellen’s other books. I picked Burned to start out with.
As soon as I cracked the book open I was greeted with Ellen Hopkins’ raw beautiful prose. Burned has the same honesty as other books I’ve read by Ellen, but this one deals with a girl in a very large, and very dysfunctional Mormon family.
Burned made me angry. As it should. There’s a lot of issues going on in Pattyn’s life. An abusive father. A doormat of a mother. Not to mention all the normal teenage problems. Like, sex, drinking, and making friends. Pattyn’s life is hard and I didn’t blame her for the situation she found herself in. I probably would have done the same things in her shoes. This really isn’t a book that you can say you enjoyed, but I liked seeing Pattyn start to make her own decisions. It was like watching her take blinders off.
I loved Aunt J. She was definitely my favorite character. She was really the perfect person for Pattyn to have in her life. I just wish she could have stayed with her longer. I really just wish the book could have had a happier resolution all together. I guess that I’ll just have to wait and see what happens in Smoke.
As soon as I cracked the book open I was greeted with Ellen Hopkins’ raw beautiful prose. Burned has the same honesty as other books I’ve read by Ellen, but this one deals with a girl in a very large, and very dysfunctional Mormon family.
Burned made me angry. As it should. There’s a lot of issues going on in Pattyn’s life. An abusive father. A doormat of a mother. Not to mention all the normal teenage problems. Like, sex, drinking, and making friends. Pattyn’s life is hard and I didn’t blame her for the situation she found herself in. I probably would have done the same things in her shoes. This really isn’t a book that you can say you enjoyed, but I liked seeing Pattyn start to make her own decisions. It was like watching her take blinders off.
I loved Aunt J. She was definitely my favorite character. She was really the perfect person for Pattyn to have in her life. I just wish she could have stayed with her longer. I really just wish the book could have had a happier resolution all together. I guess that I’ll just have to wait and see what happens in Smoke.