But how can she be happy with her abusive, alcoholic, controlling father forever looming in the background threatening to destroy everything and anyone she's ever cared for?īURNED deals with many tough issues. When she meets Ethan, she learns the meaning of love and life. She struggles with the conflicting emotions of the faith and "rules" she was taught to believe in her entire life and the fact that she wants more for herself. But how can freedom be punishment? Pattyn finally finds a place where she belongs with her aunt. When her dad discovers what she's doing, he ships her off to his sister in Nevada for the summer as punishment. Is she sinning through these dreams? Should she have these wants and desires? When she starts secretly dating a non-Mormon boy at school and messing around, more of these questions are raised. When she has her first sex-related dream, she's confused and uncertain. Her father and bishop are part of an extreme sect that frowns upon women. She was raised Mormon, but is now questioning what is and isn't allowed within her faith. Pattyn Scarlet Von Stratten is the oldest in a large family. I'm also in love with the shapes of the various passages in this book see below for a video with a close-up look at some of the amazing sentence architecture going on! I actually liked this book better than last year's first date with Hopkins when I read TILT, perhaps largely due to the singular perspective this time around. I've been suffering under the misconception that BURNED was a part of that series or dealing with other tough issues due to the burned-in look of the cover. I don't read many books dealing with drugs, etc. I've always overlooked her books, assumed they were all related to CRANK due to their similarly-treated covers. Ellen Hopkins is an author to watch one I should have been reading before now.
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