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rebecca_oneil 's review for:
Burned
by Ellen Hopkins
I find Ellen Hopkins' verse novels to be compulsively readable, but I thought this one's poetry wasn't as good as that in [b:Crank|270730|Crank|Ellen Hopkins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173302773s/270730.jpg|262457] and [b:Glass|270804|Glass|Ellen Hopkins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173303393s/270804.jpg|262530]. Additionally, the story was so much similar to Carol Lynch's [b:The Chosen One|5303373|The Chosen One|Carol Lynch Williams|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235161549s/5303373.jpg|5370813] that I couldn't help thinking how I preferred The Chosen One. The ending was unexpected and far too abrupt. Mature language and themes.
It did make me want to start a booklist around a certain type of character: the outcast/hermit who reforms the main character by introducing him/her to the benefits of hard work, homespun wisdom, and country living. While I was reading about Aunt J in this book, I thought of several others, but now I'm blanking out. Anyone?
Favorite quotes:
[on the effects of reading literature:] "I began / To view the world at large / through borrowed eyes, / eyes more like those / I wanted to own."
"They say the world sees you / As you see yourself, / and that night I saw myself in a different way. / Pretty. Almost desirable."
It did make me want to start a booklist around a certain type of character: the outcast/hermit who reforms the main character by introducing him/her to the benefits of hard work, homespun wisdom, and country living. While I was reading about Aunt J in this book, I thought of several others, but now I'm blanking out. Anyone?
Favorite quotes:
[on the effects of reading literature:] "I began / To view the world at large / through borrowed eyes, / eyes more like those / I wanted to own."
"They say the world sees you / As you see yourself, / and that night I saw myself in a different way. / Pretty. Almost desirable."