Burned
Ratings29
Average rating4
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Ratings29
Average rating4
NY Times bestseller, is the story of a young woman, struggling to find her place in the world in the face of abuse by the person she most adores: her father. She questions her family, her faith, and her ability to love and be loved.
Suspended from school, she is sent to rural Nevada to live with an aunt whom she barely knows. There she finds love, acceptance and new knowledge about the things that have made her father like he is. But even there, her demons find her.
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2 primary booksBurned is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Ellen Hopkins.
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Ellen Hopkins never lets me down when I want to read something life changing.
The mormon lifestyle is a controversial topic, I live in Australia where there is only 150,000 mormons so i've never met one but from what i see online.. it scares me.
The lifestyle looks like it has its good but the bad is really bad.
I'll have to do more research i guess.
Deducted one star for the abrupt and unresolved ending, and for the obtuseness of the title (I am assuming it refers to hellfire...)
I don't understand how I could not like this book the first time I started it. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood, I have no idea, but I'm so glad i finally decided to read it. I think this is by far my favorite Hopkins book so far.
I can't say that i could relate to Pattyn; my family isn't mormon (or practicing any religion of the sort). But I could relate to her questionning of God.
What I like the most about Hopkins' books is their honesty. The ending is rarely a happy one. Sad, but true, just like it mostly happens in life.
