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icecreamjane 's review for:
Burned
by Ellen Hopkins
I picked this up because I thought it would be interesting to read an adolescent struggle through the Mormon perspective. But... it was weird. It was like she wrote this book after leaving the LDS church and while holding a grudge. I like Ellen Hopkins' style, I enjoy her poetry and the books she writes, but come on. On her website she says:
"Still, my personal feeling is that any religion that considers women
"inferior" deserves a hard look. The references to the Mormon
religion are accurate. I worked with a great, great granddaughter
of Joseph Smith (founder of the LDS church), who left the church
in her early 20s because of concerns like Pattyn's."
Uh...so you got your information from someone who doesn't like the church? Did you think you were going to get an accurate picture from that person? "The references to the Mormon religion are accurate"? I hope people don't read this book and file it away in their brains' Why Mormons Are Weird folder. Because maybe 10% of her "accurate Mormon references" are in fact that.
However, the rest of the book was OK. :)
"Still, my personal feeling is that any religion that considers women
"inferior" deserves a hard look. The references to the Mormon
religion are accurate. I worked with a great, great granddaughter
of Joseph Smith (founder of the LDS church), who left the church
in her early 20s because of concerns like Pattyn's."
Uh...so you got your information from someone who doesn't like the church? Did you think you were going to get an accurate picture from that person? "The references to the Mormon religion are accurate"? I hope people don't read this book and file it away in their brains' Why Mormons Are Weird folder. Because maybe 10% of her "accurate Mormon references" are in fact that.
However, the rest of the book was OK. :)