Burned (Burned, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Apr 04, 2018 Kate rated it liked it

3.5/5

This is a quick and easy read. As with the other Ellen Hopkins books I have read, this too is written in verse. It tells the story of a teenaged girl who grows up in a Mormon family and discovers the true meaning of love when she is sent away to live with her aunt (a less religiously devout member of her family) for a summer.

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Jun 21, 2013 Cecily Black rated it really liked it

Love Ellen Hopkins, definitely one of my favorite authors and this book was pretty good. Not as good as some of her other stuff that I have read. This isn't a story that I haven't heard before. obviously the characters are different and what not but the Mormon living a shit life and discovering all these amazing things that are usually not allowed like sex and boys and drinking etc.
I Have very strong feelings and opinions about the Mormon way of life and sheltering people. I have a difficult ti ...more

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Sep 05, 2017 Jaret rated it it was ok

This coming of age novel was unimpressive. The author seemed to play on a lot of mis-perceived stereotypes about the LDS church. I would have respected the storyline more if the author hadn't made it seem like what happened to Pattyn in her household happened because of her church. What happened to her happens in too many families regardless of their faith. The church described in the story was more like the cultish polygamous sects you read about in the tabloids than the true LDS church I am fa ...more

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Jun 04, 2013 Mary Bronson rated it it was amazing

Shelves: contemporary, favorites, young-adult, women-fiction, romance, realistic-fiction

I thought this was a very good book. I loved how it was written in verse. It made it a quick read. This was the first time I read a 400+ pages in one day. I think Paytton was such a strong character. The endign was surpising, but good.

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