Burned (Burned #1)

Reader reviewed by courtney

this was my favirote of ellen hopkins books. i learned alot about different relgions. i love how deep down it was a love story and a person trying to find her right in socety when everyone else was trying to protect her from doing it. ilove how rebelled on everything she grew up in and was suppose to belive in. but it was heart breaking the end when her love died and the only thing that connected her to him their baby.

Reader reviewed by NIs

Ok. So i thought this book was amazing!! I fell in love with Ethan from the moment they met. Literally, I wanted to fall in love like that too and find my Mr. Right. But then, in the end, it felt like someone stuck a needle in the story and deflated it completely. I think she is an amazing writer, but the ending was just too sad to bear. I couldn't believe it. I finished it in 2 days and while reading in school, I just had to show someone how deeply in love they were. So i showed my friend some excerpts and now she's reading it. This is a must read page turner, just skip the last 5 pages and make up your own ending.

Reader reviewed by karlynne sampson

The book burned was a heart wrenching story. It made me want to cry at the end b/c of how much she had lost on top of what hardships she had previously gone through to get there. I really wish the author would write a sequel to burned like she did with crank. Over all this book is going on my favorites list. it was an awsome book. one of the best ive read this year.

Reader reviewed by Jessica

This story takes us from the highest highs of the character's life and drags the reader down until they reach the lowest of lows. Dark ad a page-turner, I was unable to stop. The main character goes through so many events and everyone is able to relate to at least one of the feelings she experiences.

The ending of the book is sure to leave readers screaming for a solution, where there is none. It's impossible to stop thinking about the novel once it is finished and even more impossible not to read it a second time in hopes that the ending will change.

Written in the beautiful style of verse, Ellen Hopkins captures the girl's heart and soul on the pages of this novel in such a way that every word strikes deep and leaves it's own mark in our brain, torturing us to read more until it has infected every part of your mind.

Reader reviewed by Me.

I loved this book. It was amazing. I couldn't put the book down. This is a book I have made all my friends read! The ending I thought was amazing. I wanted more! I was crying with the way everything had happened to her. When I read the last page I turned it looking for more. I can't wait for more of Ellen Hopkins books she is a very talented writer!

Reader reviewed by ivree ( shawtie)

Burned 

By: Ellen Hopkins

Burned by; Ellen Hopkins is without a doubt the most exciting book I have ever read. It is about t a young girl named pattyn von stratten. Pattyn live in Carson City Nevada with her eight sisters. Brought up by a religious yet abusive family. She starts asking questions about god, a womans role, sex, love. Pattyn finds passion by falling in a deep lust with Derek but when her father catches her in a compromising position, event become out of control. Pattyn must spend the summer with her aunt Jeanette, as a punishment, while mom is taking on a pregnancy.  Yet while in feast Nevada pattyn finds love and exception, until she realizes that the demons that once held on to her do not want to let her go.    

            Pattyn von stratten is a sixteen year old girl, who faces many troubles as a teenager. I can relate myself to pattyn because I started out as a good girl, always on the honor role usually the teachers pet, but once I became teenager I got wild and I dont even know why. Doing all these crazy things just to get the guys attention, and once I finally got their attention I have to I more crazy things to keep it. Pattyn does wild things and she gets caught in the act of one of the worst.  She seems to want things. Pattyn is a rebel like me.

I would recommend this book to the wild group of kids in any school throughout the nation. Most of the wild kids in our school have read it and most of them say it touched them in a way they didnt think a book could. I am one of those kids my librarian recommended this book to me and I told her thank you.

Reader reviewed by Austin

Pattyn is an amazing girl who is willing to fight for what she wants, even if it's differnt than the way other people fight. She finds the perfect guy and has an amazing summer, but then it gets crushed. One of my favorite books that is both heartwarming, and heartbreaking. READ!!!!!

Reader reviewed by f00lishchick

this book is defenitely A FIVE! it is sooooooo good. it's romantic(i'm a hopeless romantic), it's funny, cute, and dramatic. i like this book becuase it kept making me want to know more and more of what would happen furthur in the book. i kept wanting to turn every single page becuase it was so interesting! i like the format the author used to write this book because it's conveniant and even know it made the book look longer than it was intended to, it was still comfortable to read like that. i really liked this book a lot and i recommend to EVERYONE OUT THERE-WHATEVER AGE YOU MAY BE to read this book!

I sat down, right before dinner, meaning to read a few of the poems in Burned, just see what Ellen Hopkins was all about. Two hours later I was still reading, captivated by Pattyn von Stratten’s voice, her situation, her timid yet strengthening rebellions. 300 pages were gone, and I’d forgotten all about my dinner. I was quite convinced that Hopkins had found a lifelong fan in me (I still think that.)

Pattyn, the oldest of 7 daughters, is suffocating. She’s from a strict LDS family, and her dad drinks and beats his wife. Abruptly, Pattyn realizes that she is a sexual being, and that realization turns her worldview inside out. She finds a non-Mormon boyfriend, gets drunk, becomes a girl worth being friends with in the estimation of her peers. And then her dad finds out about what she’s been doing. Pattyn is sent to live on her aunt’s ranch in Nevada, where she meets Ethan and learns that, if there is a God, He’s definitely not the God her father believes in.

Up until this point, I absolutely loved Burned. The scenes where Pattyn lost control of her temper and talked back to her dad and the local bishop? Priceless scenes, proof that Pattyn von Stratten was a lady you didn’t want to mess with, in spite of her circumstances. Watching her become her own person on her aunt’s ranch was wonderful, too, though not quite as breathtaking.

It was in the last 200 pages or so where I fell out of love with this book. With Ethan on the scene, Pattyn’s thoughts went from intriguing to lovestruck. Because this novel is in poetry format, things became cheesy quickly. At one point, Hopkins compared having sex to sliding down a rainbow. Ew? And when Pattyn left the ranch, she became depressed, talking about how she needed Ethan more than life, how she loved him and would die without him. I willingly admit that I have limited tolerance for angst—especially poetic angst.

The the end—bing, bang! Book: done. It was too fast, too abrupt. I never felt the emotional backlash of what happened to Pattyn. It was rushed.

So in spite of a fantastic start, Burned wasn’t quite a perfect read, and I was a teensy bit disappointed that things turned out that way. I was all set to love this book wholeheartedly and I couldn’t do that. However, I was still massively impressed with this one, and I’m going to make a point of picking up more novels by Ellen Hopkins in the future. Any woman who can render emotion so beautifully on the page, make it so easily accessible, is the kind of person whose writing I want to experience more than once.

Reader reviewed by Katelyn (The Bookshelf Sophisticate)

Now with this being the 7th and newest installment in the House of Night series it might be a little different from some of my other reviews, mainly because I don't want to accidentally include any spoilers and ruin it for readers who haven't had the chance to read the previous installments. I fell in love with the House Of Night series from the very beginning and I know that I'm not alone in my enthusiasm. If you haven't read this series you should, end of discussion.

I will say this for those readers out there who are familiar with Zoey Redbird and the rest of the House Of Night crew...Burned was not a let down in any way, shape or form. It had everything I wanted and hoped for from it. The suspense, the mystery, the romance and all the problems that usually go hand in hand with that, lol. I laughed at the characters' witty humor and even found myself close to tears at one point, I can totally be a sucker like that. But what I'm trying to say is that it had it all, everything you could ask for from the series.

P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast took me and I'm sure everyone who reads this book on a non-stop journey that will have you feeling like you're a character in the story yourself. We went to the "Otherworld", an island in Scottland, Venice, Italy, and of course good ole' Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was fantastic and memorable, a story that has stayed with me long after I finished the last page. This mother and daughter writing team really know how to weave a YA novel that will keep readers hooked and always wanting more, more, more! Once again I've found myself wishing that the next installment was coming out tomorrow so that I never have to stop reading.

One snippet I will mention * BEWARE OF A POSSIBLE SPOILER* I am and have always been on TEAM STARK...yes I felt the need to put that in all caps, it shows how much I adore him! This was the first book in the House Of Night series that I really felt did him justice, and gave him the spotlight he so rightly deserved, lol.

Will Zoey be able to pull herself together (literally)? Will Stark and the rest of her friends manage to break through to her and ger their high priestess back? Or will the Neferet and Darkness claim a victory that will leave all of us "insignificant" humans in danger? I guess you'll have to read and find out, because I'm sure not telling!