A review by birdlawyer
Burned by Ellen Hopkins

5.0

I read this book in a day, it was so good. I loved everything about it. It just seemed so real, even though, I am aware that many things were exaggerated in comparison to real life. I know many people find issue in the way Mormons are portrayed in this book, but one just has to realize that it is an exaggeration for the purpose of the story. If someone takes this book so literally they should not be reading it. Another thing people seemed to find issue in was the "lack" of character development. It is a free verse novel! It is different than the traditional novel. The writing was more about what was going on internally than the character development externally, expectations have to be a bit different. To review this book you need to look at this with a little different prospective. My only complaint is that the ending was rather harsh and just seemed out of step with the rest of the book, but perhaps that was just grief. Sequel?