Carla reviewed Burned by Ellen Hopkins
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4 stars
Deducted one star for the abrupt and unresolved ending, and for the obtuseness of the title (I am assuming it refers to hellfire...)
Hardcover, 532 pages
English language
Published Dec. 1, 2006 by Margaret K. McElderry Books.
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Deducted one star for the abrupt and unresolved ending, and for the obtuseness of the title (I am assuming it refers to hellfire...)