I finished Fallout, the final book of Ellen Hopkins' Crank series. I have now started Burned, which is another Ellen Hopkins book written in verse. This book is from the viewpoint of a Latter-Day Saints' girl who lives with her abusive father, submissive mother, and many sisters, of which Pattyn is the oldest. Her father named all of his children after U.S. generals.
"It all started with
a dream. Nothing exceptional, just a typical fantasy about a boy, the
kind of dream that most teen girls experience. But Pattyn Von Stratten
is not like most teen girls. Raised in a religious -- yet abusive --
family, a simple dream may not be exactly a sin, but it could be the
first step toward hell and eternal damnation.
This dream is a
first step for Pattyn. But is it to hell or to a better life? For the
first time Pattyn starts asking questions. Questions seemingly without
answers -- about God, a woman's role, sex, love -- mostly love. What is
it? Where is it? Will she ever experience it? Is she deserving of it?
It's with a real boy that Pattyn gets into real trouble. After Pattyn's
father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of
control until Pattyn ends up suspended from school and sent to live with
an aunt she doesn't know.
Pattyn is supposed to find salvation
and redemption during her exile to the wilds of rural Nevada. Yet what
she finds instead is love and acceptance. And for the first time she
feels worthy of both -- until she realizes her old demons will not let
her go. Pattyn begins down a path that will lead her to a hell -- a hell
that may not be the one she learned about in sacrament meetings, but it
is hell all the same.
In this riveting and masterful novel
told in verse, Ellen Hopkins takes readers on an emotional
roller-coaster ride. From the highs of true love to the lows of abuse,
Pattyn's story will have readers engrossed until the very last word." -Goodreads and the back cover
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