Book Review: Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Burned, written by Ellen Hopkins is a worth the read novel full of excitement, tragedy and surprise. Written in verse, every page is set up creatively. Hopkins verse style of novel writing is a very exciting new way of reading and writing.
Hopkins book shows the life of a Mormon girl; Pattyn Scarlet Von Stratten. Pattyn is tired of the Mormon lifestyle and rebels against her family and the rules of her home and church. Her father spends most of the time drunk and angry and her mother has a whole household to take care of.
After Pattyn gets in a fight and breaks glass, her family has had enough of her rebelling so they send her to live with her Aunt, out in the middle of nowhere, for the summer, so she can no longer get in trouble.
It turns out that she has fun on her stay with her aunt, she learns how to drive and ride a horse, and meets the love of her life. She fell in love with Ethan, the son of her aunts friend. He is not Mormon and her father would kill the both of them if they were together.
After returning home things start to go bad again. She mouths off to her father and gets beaten. She takes the rap for something her sister does, and gets beaten to save her life. She also learns that she will have Ethan’s baby.
Like all of Hopkins novels, Burned also has a tragic ending. Ethan and Pattyn get in a car wreck and she wakes up in the hospital to learn that she lost Ethan and her baby. In the end she says that God could not be love because love was a corpse, because she lost the love of her life, and the only thing remnant of him.
Liked it
It was a great book until the last 20 pages….I’m a fan of happy ending cause books are my get-away from the real world,so I thought the ending sucked. So I wrote a new one… and I suggest you do that too[unless you liked the the ending of course].
I thought it was a good book. But the ending was dissapointing!
I find all of her books interesting, but I agree about the ending being disappointing. Sometimes just got to remember life does not always turn out like a fairytale, so all writers are not going to write that way.
i love this book. i started to cry at the end.
i never see my dad anymore. he is in jail and i live with my uncle. i can almost relate to this girl
I liked all of her books,
her style is so interesting
never lets you lose interest.
great review.
This book was amazing! I have never offically completed a book, And this was the first offical book that I can say I read all the way through. Each page was more exciting then the next. I couldnt put it down. But The ending pissed me off. errrr I mean why couldnt she just end it with pattyn and ethan being together. I mean pattyn deserved something good and its ruined..lol bad ending ellen hopkins!
i have to say, this book was incredible! ellen hopkins is such an inspiration and her style really grasps my attention. a few of my friends hated that pattyn and ethan didnt get to be together, but i think thats what makes hopkins’ books so good; the “real-ness” in them. she really wakes us up with reality, many of us dont enjoy reading about sad endings but, its life and i’m glad somebody isnt afraid to write about it. good job:)
I am glad that you guys liked the book, I agree…
with the statement about her real-ness in her verse
novels.
Thanks for the comments so far!
i just bought the book and havent read it yet
i was looking threw book reviews and ead this one
so the ending is pretty much ruined for meh.
I was so amazed by this book, though I’m only 13, it doesn’t mean I didn’t get any of the sex parts, it was actually awesome knowing that these kind of books exist, ’cause I thought that all authors can only use the right language as in without cussing, and by these books by Ellen Hopkins, I really felt the emotions or the anger of the characters and it expanded my imagination. It was really worth it
I love all Ellen Hopkins’ books 
ok i read this book and i cried my eyes out. i loved the ending but thought that it could be better but besides the point does anyone know when this book was published and how many pages there are? if so thank you=)
Chy, if you come back and see this,
it has 531 pages
and was published in 2006
thanks for all your comments
This isn’t a book review, it’s a synopsis.
book review, synopsis…whatever…it is what it is
I agree about the synopsis part,
but it was a good book.
so I enjoyed the recap
I thought this book was one of the best I’ve ever read…until the end. What happened to closure and happy endings? If you can’t find those things in a book where can you find them? Is this the kind of hopelessness that everyone is doomed to? Are we supposed to lose it all like Pattyn did? If this is reality, I wish that I hadn’t read this book and discovered it.
this was definately a good book,
but so sad an ending,
wish it ended better.
like brit i wasn’t sure if she killed herself, killed her dad, or both.
i absolutelty loved the book, and cried my eyes out in the end. i really wanted eathan and pattyn to have a happy ending.
book…
Her style is very neat…
nice review!
I agree with most here
the ending was sad…
wish it would have ended better.
nice review
this is a good book.
her books r so great
great review,
this was a good book,
she writes really well.
I know people who do the drug,
and this story is so true
about that life
Oh my, great recap of the book.
her book felt so real..
The best book out of Ellen’s works. I really loved the ending. I’m probably the few that likes tragic endings like this, but I think this ending was more likely to happen rather than everything turning out alright in the end.
I agree witht he last comment, it being the best of her books,
and her ending being better than a happy ending.
it shows how it really is rather than giving a
fantasy type ending.
and when i lost the one I loved I thought love was just a corpse too, so I can relate to this book.
this book was rad,
her books are the bomb
this book was really captivating.
and i agree with the others;; it could have ended a little better.
very nicely written review !
I loved this book, very inspiring
and so captivating.
i can relate alot to pattyn
-the things she went through with derek
-&& how she can only date mormon boys, but with me its nationality lol
-rebelling =] ahah
and
but i truley loved the book.. i couldnt put it down
the end was disappointing cuz she desvered to be with ethan
but it was still a very emotional book
my favorite author,
and this was my favorite book
of hers.
thanx for the review.
I loved this book and I thought that it was the best out of all her books (not that im saying all her other books are bad I loved all of them). But this one definately stuck in my head. LOVED IT!! great story
Not that I try to hide from tragedy, but I hated the ending. Not only did Pattyn lose someone she loved, but she lost all hope, and everything that she believed in. This was a girl who truly deserved to have something amazing, and she didn’t get it. She’d never get that chance, and would always be stuck with something she needed desperately to escape. Thats what I found most tragic about this story.
i loved burned, i thought it was brilliant. i was sad by the ending, it made me feel sick and depressed. i thought it was real though, not everything ends happy. i love how her novels are very unique, and filled with the unexpected. ellen hopkins is a huge inspiration. my stomache sinks everytime i think about the book though. loved it anyways though, its a “masterpiece”.
i have not read this book yet-but i look forward to it! i absolutely love books about torture and sadness-so i think i will love the sad ending.
I just finished the book, literally. oh man, it made me CRY!! the ending was dramatic. what a twist. everyone seems to be hating the ending, but it is a good change on “happily ever after”. I was looking for the official ending actually. Still not quite sure. like, does she die and or kill other people?
I dont know.(??)
Anyways, some of the sentences were very beautiful and well put together. They were not sappy at all.
And also i liked the set up
Overall, GREAT BOOOOK!!!!
This bok is amazing. It truley shows what life is about. Life is a series of down notes. But sometimes can be happy. Great book.
okay so this book was beyond amazing. I read it so fast and loved the realness of it all. I just wished it would have ended happier even though life never ends like that. Also what happens at the end. does she kill herself or not. im so confused. but this book was on of the best i have ever read.
It was a good book I agree.
this is a amazing book i hate to read but i loved this book i hated the ending though i was hopin for more i hope there is a sequal
Burned is fabulous book. I loved reading every sentence of it. I love all her books that I’ve read so far. This book shows that life cant always have a happy ending.
I could say this one of my favorite books of all time. The ending definitely left me stunned and I cried. But the romantic part of this novel was beautifully written, I always went back to it and read it a million times over. I love this book!
I bought this book yesterday night and finished it right when I woke up. It really is amazing. Of course, I cryed at the end. I would have been more satisfied if it didn’t end like that, but I still liked the ending since it wasn’t like anything I’ve read before. But what I wanted for atleast was a miracle to happen and for her baby to live and her aunt to help her raise it. Anyway, it was the first book I read from Hopkins and I can’t wait to catch up on all her other ones. [ The wierd thing is, I have a friend who fits the exact description of how Patyn looks so I just thought about her all through the book. Haha! (: ]
i didnt buy the book yet and i wanted to until i read the review.
then it told me the ending.
thanks alot now im not buying it
Well I am sorry that it ruined the ending for you now.
Thats why if you doubt if a review will ruin it or not, to read the book first.
I try to put the warning up
but didnt on this review.
:[
i wish i didn’t read this review
until after i read the book,
cause it told me the ending:[
you shouldn’t have put the ending.
:/
again I am sorry.
but sometimes you gotta use common sense
before reading a review.
this was a good book.
though you kinda said too muchof the ending.
:[
amazing book!!!
i kinda liked the ending but idid she die or what??
and when it said “he doesn’t know” or something like that does that mean God? and that since it wasnt capitaillized she didnt believe? idk it was confusing but i really LOVEDDD this book..ethan sounded like a hawteeeee (:
and the ending just needed more detail
I just finished
it was incredible!
The emotions that it evoked from me were insanely real, I had to stop reading and look around to remind myself that it wasn’t happening to me.
When the dad beat her, I really truly hated him.
Of course I hated the ending, but you cant deny that it was affective.
I love books that make me feel, and this one did that and more.
And yes I cried…
… but he wont
tears
i know that this book isn’t real, but after reading it, i couldn’t help but think that it was. the end just affected me SO much: i swear i was depressed the rest of the day. like everyone else, i wanted this to be a happy ending for her, because this boy was so perfect. she deserved it. but i admire ms hopkins for ending it this way, because it’s defintely stuck with all who read the book, right?
the best of ellen hopkins, in my opinion.
–shelby
i loved this book so much. the writing was beautiful. but i wasent a big fan of the ending. but hey, i didnt write the book.
this book was so depressing yet amazing im a teen mom and ihave been through a lot and i couldnt imagine being in her situation
no one knnows what thir talking about. i LOVED the ending. it was pure genius. my absolute favorite book!
I loved this book and the fact that it was pretty easy to read since it was written in verse. I was angry at the ending at first because I had just finished 1984 which ended unhappy also. I just don’t understand if she ended up killing all the people she said she was, herself, or just her dad. Maybe we’re not meant to know. As much as I was initially disappointed in the ending, I realize that it made the book real. After all shes been through, I would have snapped way before Pattyn did.
this book was great
i havent read this book yet. but im so excited to read itt!!!!!!
I thought this book was the best book i have ever read!.. It was truely amazing..
This book was absolutely amazing! It makes you have such a great imagination, and you will feel like your Pattyn. The ending was soo surprising. Right when you think there’s going to be a happy ending, Hopkins turns your thoughts 360 degrees. This is what makes her such an incredible author. I love all of her books!
Ellen Hopkin’s books are amazing whether
you have done drugs or not. There are ways
in which you find yourself relating to the
book and I think that’s awesome. I loved Burned.
Yes, the ending was disappointing and it brought
reality back into this amazing dream Pattyn felt
she was in.
One of my favorite lines in the book is from Ethan:
“You’re like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you’ll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me, I fell in, headfirst.”
I was like, wowwwww. I like that, haha.
well i know that the book is probably good, i mean i haven’t read it yet. but just because bad things happen doesnt mean that god doesn’t love you. sometimes its just a persons time to go. and also, being mormon doesn’t mean that you can’t lead a happy life. i would know. i have the best life i could ever wish for and i’m happily mormon. religion doesn’t restrict you. you restrict you.
i just finished this book and OMG i cried!!! It was such a bad ending. i wish she would have made it a happy ending cause now verytime i think i about it my heart sinks. it is truely sad.
Jeez, I loved the book.
Everyone here is saying that the ending was terrible,
But I loved the ending. It just made the entire novel.
I absolutely loved this book. I had read Crank, Glass, and Impulse, so I read Burned. Crank was my favorite, but now it is definitely tied with Burned. I cried at the end, it was so sad. And I wanted to cry in the beginning, when she is talking about droning out the sounds of her mother’s screams :l Not all books have happy endings, and I’m not disappointed that this one had a sad ending. Means the author isn’t afraid to make it a sad story. But I definitely recommend this book!
simply incredible.
This book is reminder after reminder on every page bound between two thin covers reaching out, asking to be read. Its a reminder of true life, and what its deepest hells can be, a reminder that to rise up you must first believe you can, and that ultimately, without love, or at least the hope for it, life is wasted. The ending is painful but yet, another vivid reminder. Life is a reality, fairytales will never last.
I thought that the book was VERY real life like, the Sex, Beatings, Characters, Personalities, and even the layout of the book was the most realistic thing ever. I think this is by far the best book I have ever read. Mostly because of the sex. =P haha
this was a really great book. really sad ending i almost cryed in class when i finshed it but didnt ^^
I love the story, but HATE the tragic ending. I was crying like crayze one I read Ethan had died!!!!!!!!!!
this book was amazing… i felt like i was right there with her when she was going through everything…. and the other books crank, glass, and impulse are just the same.. ellen hopkins really knows how to write..and i mean everything just makes since to me!!! loved ut
this book was amazing!
i loved every moment of it.
ii started crying towards the end. wow that was a shocker.
i just think ellen hopkins is an awesome writer. i only read impulse and burned as of now. i’ll read the crank and glass when i get a chance to get my hands on them. but i just love it =]
this was a great book i agree
At first, this book isnt gripping, maybe until you really start to reach deeper into what it’s really talking about. This book lieterally made me feel great about my own uniqueness. It actually opened my eyes and made me realize that isolation sometimes is a gift because you aren’t like anyone else…The way this book is written and put together..is simply, absolutely amazing. I never lost interest throughout the story.
this was a great book, all of her books are fantastic, but this was my favorite
i agree, the book is good.
i love her work.
nice review…
I had just finished the book (read it all today, actually) and I have to say that it is indeed an amazing book. It brings out true emotion that you yourself can feel.
I’ve never read a book written in verses, and I’m glad I had. Despite the tragic ending. (Which made me upset, nonetheless).
But as stated before, life isn’t a fairytale. Soon enough reality bites you in the butt and Ellen Hopkins did just that.
This is by far one the best books I have ever read.
i’ve read all of her books and they all are amazing. i recommend them to everyone who enjoys reading. even if you dont the verses make it so easy and enjoyable to read
Thanks for sharing. I think I will read this book!
i loved this book it was amazing but wtf happened at the end did she kill herslef and her dad with the gun, or did she jump? the ending is so unclear, \’\'\’heart breaking, i thin that if dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me,
i could easily change my mind….but he won\’t.\’\’ can someone please tell me what that ment? xoxo
This book was absolutely incredable. Evey high and low kept me interested. And I thought Hopkins did a phenomenal job with the entire book, including the ending. Although it wasn’t a happ ending, that’s what i liked about it because in the real world most people don’t get their happily ever after. Hopkins made this book real, as she does with her other novels.
And nicala, to me that line ment would her father say “i love you” if she was holding a gun to his head and if he did would it change her mind about shooting him? then she says she wouldnt change her mind. BUt that is a good question, i had to read that part a few times to completely understand.
Im only 14 years old, and i loved this book, the way it was written out,
at lunch once i needed a book for english class,
so i go into my library, an i just grabbed a book ,that looked somewhat entertaining
and this is the book i grabbed.
i loved it. this is my favorite book.
umm the ending was sad and i wondered did she kill herself??
i just figured she did.
i want a love like ethan.
why cant men be like that in real life.ahaha.
this book actually made me depressed but i still love it.
(:
yea i really loved this book nd it actually kinda made me cry at the end cuz it was so sad. i mean she has sucha hard life nd finally finds the love of her life! why cant she jux have one thing ? haha i really hate that trevor kid though >.< but anyways can anyone tell me what happens at the end ? i was way confused
I just got the book over the week end and could not put it down. I loved it but the ending was just as if Ellen decided “I’m Done” there were so many questions that were unanswered. I did not want the sappy fairytale ending but it was just so depressing and sad that she lost everything and was going to kill everyone she ever knew.
What was the line the aunt said to pattyn? It was something like “love only comes around once if you’re lucky”? I’m not quite sure and I would like to know! If anyone knows…
an emotional novel about the road to love lost and love gained.
i like the emotional and phisical hard ship
OMG this book was amazing! Very sad ending, but I think that’s what makes it such a great book. Ellen Hopkins is such a great author, she writes about realistic things. I’ve only read Burned, Crank and Identical, but all of them have made an impact, especially Crank. Only because I can relate to that book. I still think Burned is my favorite though, only because of all the emotions in this book. My fav, great job Ellen
this is an amazing book i havent read any of hopkins books yet but i bet there as good as this one it keeps you glued untill the end and then your thinking about the ending for the rest of the day!
I love all Ellen Hopkin’s books, but Burned was my favorite out of all of them, the only thing i didn’t like was the ending, the whole book was touching though, and i have read the book 10x and probably will still read it over and over. I love this book to death, and can honesty relate to Pattyn.
this is the most amazing book ive ever read!
im not a bigg fan of reading at all..and yet i loved this one. not only because im going through the same exact same thing..but because it was veary heartfelt.
i loved everthing but the ending..of courae because he dies.
good job ellen, keep up the good work!
I LOVED this book. It made me feel like it was my life that was playing out on the pages. I think that almost every girl can relate to a book like this, I know I did.
The last like 50 pages I was bawling, I couldn’t believe the ending. But it was such a good book that I have told all my friends to read it. And they all loved it too.
Ellen is an amazing writer and I have read all of her books at least three times!
I absolutely love all of Ellen Hopkins’ books. Each one has a realness to them and that makes them easy to relate to for a lot of teens and readers out there. Burned is my personal favorite because I love the romance and the religious issues that Pattyn has to deal with on her journey. Last year I went to the teen book festival not too far from my school and Ellen Hopkins was there for a book signing. I asked her what she meant at the end of the book, if Pattyn jumped (which I thought) or shot her father or the list of people she described on on e of the last pages. Hopkins confessed that she had never thought to think that it seemed Pattyn jumped the way she wrote the ending. She said she wanted it to seem like she was pondering revenge. When I asked her if she was thinking about a sequel to this one, she said she wasn’t sure yet, but if she did, it would possibly be about Pattyn using her sharp shooting skills..if you know what I mean…lol. Hope this cleared up the ending for a lot of you fans out there! And Ellen Hopkins rocks!!!! lol =P
Loved the book; disliked the ending. I don’t understand how after all she went threw in the end she still end up with nothing to hope for, no where to go. I cried; even though it was just a book it’s sad to think that there is someone out there with a life similar to the story. Most people are very blessed in this life and others not so much. I wished she would’ve gotten away with Ethan and put her fater away or get him help.
But I guess as everyone says you can’t always have happy endings, because most of the time it’s not reality, and it sucks. =)
And yes i’m a little late on reading it but ole well.
This was really a great book but the ending was so depressing that it made it a bit disappointing. I still recommend the book to friends because it was very enjoyable to read, I just warn them about how upsetting the ending might be to them.
i love this book so much
i think it can be totally realistic, drugs guys, abuse, ect
i thik her aunt is like totally awesome and im glad she go tto live there
i feel really bad about the abuse she didnt desserve it
pattyn was a good sister
i loved the ending endins that are really tragic seem to make me thank that whatever happened hasnt happen to me so for me its like a confidence booster(i guess)(kinda)
Ellen Hopkins is my all time favorite author
the mother does have a whole household to attend to, but she doesn’t. she leaves it all up to pattyn. this book is amazingly amazing. if you don’t like the ending you can suck my toe because that’s how life is. you can always try to get something positive out of negatives, but you’re always gonna end off on a sour note. there is always momentary happiness, but that is just fleeting. ellen hopkins is an amazing writer. all of her books are flawless.
the mother does have a whole household to attend to, but she doesn’t. she leaves it all up to pattyn. this book is amazingly amazing. if you don’t like the ending you can suck my toe because that’s how life is. you can always try to get something positive out of negatives, but you’re always gonna end off on a sour note. there is always momentary happiness, but that is just fleeting. ellen hopkins is an amazing writer. all of her books are flawless. i chose this book for a speech on my speech team.
I’m mormon so I could totally relate to this book. Mormonism isn’t quite that bad, but I loved the ending. I hate books that end hapily, it’s so obvious half the time and life doesn’t work like that. I really enjoy Ellen Hopkins writing style.
I just completed this book…. and as many people before me have said- the ending was dissapointing… i cried and cried and cried…. Pattyn had no one to love and care for her and when she finally found someone that loved her and she loved back he died…. I still am very sad… im still crying.. I really wanted ethan and pattyn to be together…
Burned literally took my breath away, every page was like a piece of candy slowly melting down to the center of all that had become of her life. The ending was dissapointing but at the same time very tastefully written. Definetly one of the best books I have ever written. Ellen Hopkins is one of the most compelling authors I know, page by page she has you grasping for more.
Wow!!! i love this book so much!!!! hands down this is the bombest book ever!! we need more books like this!!!it teaches us how to like not rebel against things and just go with it and listen to our parents or bad things could happen….
yo.. this book is awesome i literally cried at the end hahahaha…..but it was so sad how she lost her baby and ethan
im not even going to lie
as a mormon i do agree with her im glad that she rebeled…..i have rebled too and im so happy that i did i could so relate to her as a mormon and a 24 year old mother i rebled at the of 13 and proud
well what really happens to pattyn,does she like commit sucide
my friend read this book said it was good & that I should read it & from what I’ve read from blurbs it really rocks!
this book is my faverite book
i have read all the twilight series and until this book they were my fave
yes i agree the ending was horribly sad
but it ended with closer
and like i said it was one of the saddest things i have ever read
but that doesnt meen you shouldnt like the ending
just be glad it didnt happen to you
This book is amazing. The story line is romantic and sad. I think she should write a sequel to tell us how Pattyn ends this chaos.
i love this book most say they are dissapointed in the ending but i know its sad and i bawled at the ending but thats why i like it. you get so attached to the book and get lost and then an ending like that it kinda hits you like wow. All these things can happen to one person. And Pattyn in the book has a crapy life until ethan comes along and hes is one of the only good things and hes gone. It really shows you how someone can be here one minute and gone the next and i love how she makes you feel for Pattyn in the book. To me its pure genious. when you get lost in the book you dont expect an ending like that and when you start reading it you want to pull out but you cant because you wnat to know what happens because you start to feel for her. By the way, This is my favorite book of all time
i feel the same about the ending i was very disappoint but not everything ends in a happy way the would is not perfect so it does bring so reality to life
wow! i just finshed
the book today!
it was soooooooooo sad
i was expecting the ending
becasue my friend told me how sad
he thought the book was
and then explained why! (errrrrrrr)
i luv the book but the ending could’ve been
better.
i cried.
I LOVED THIS BOOK AND I CRIED AT THE END TO IT WAS SO SAD BUT THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING
it was a great book and i loved it..i couldnt belive the ending..it made me cry.. but i admire this author..i love all your books.
this book was really good. its so sad at the end, for this girl that went through so much. i expected her to end up happy. but i would deffintly read it again. it was a really good boook as well as Crank by Ellen Hopkins.
This book is amazing; i couldnt put it down. I even read it during class, i think my teachers thought i was crazy ;p But i dispise the ending i turely thought it would be a great ending, turns out it was bad : (
i read this book in one sitting. i couldn’t put it down. i was so disappointed at the ending it broke my heart.
i really wished that ethan and pattyn would have gotten to be together. they loved each other so much and then things spiraled downhill from there..
I just finished reading this book called Burned. It was truly amazing and although it clearly was no happy ending I still loved the ending. I don’t think I would have liked it as much if they turned out happy. I have never cried when reading a book; it’s a weird thing to do. I did once, I can’t remember what book it was but I was really close to crying but I didn’t. I’ll have to go and look up that title now but this book truly made me cry every time I read those lines. “No, he’s not dead! He can’t be dead! I won’t let him be dead! Oh God, not dead!” I was reading them over and over and I still couldn’t stop crying. Tear after tear built up in my eyes and came rolling down my cheek past my jaw and down to my neck. I didn’t even want to wipe them away, it felt good to cry. Sometimes I like the feeling of just letting out in quiet tears. And I’ve stopped crying only because I am not reading it. I did go back to read it but I could only built them up, they just wouldn’t come down. I went back in the book to my favorite parts, when they first kiss and when he first tells her he loves her. And when they made love and then I went back to the ending. And reading those lines again made me cry like a baby. I have always been able to hold back tears in front of my parents but when they walked in while I was reading I couldn’t do it. They came down like a waterfall and they wouldn’t stop coming. This is the greatest book I have ever read.
I wrote this in this journal thing but anyway. I don’t care if no one reads this just as long as I get my opinion on this book out there. I realize there was no real ending at least from my view and even though that part wasn’t so good I loved the ending. Even if it made me cry like a baby. If this book didn’t have that ending I don’t think anyone would have liked it as much. Amazing job Ellen Hopkins.
Thanks for all the comments,
and to Cami,
Thanks for sharing your opinion,
it was really touching!
Ellen Hopkins is definately an amazing author
(:
I absolutely love this book. It was amazing. This may sound wierd but I think the ending makes the book more interesting, even though it is really sad. I’ve read almost all of Ellen Hopkins books numerous times and they get 100 times better every time. =]
i thought it was a great book ,you never lose intrest, EVER. this is the first one ive read of ellen hopkins, and i will read the rest. i looovethem.
Loved burn soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomuch!
Burned sucked!
Burned….burned….in a good way….
wow i read this book and it is amazing, it tought me that life could be good for you but not for everybody.!!!!! we have to make good out of what we got true love is only a 1 time thing we can’t let it go no matter what you have to do its a amazing feeling. i know form expierence that love has to be held on to tight because you never know when you will lose that one person for good. not a day has passed that i havn’t thought about marcus but know its to late he found somebody elso so love you have to hold on to!!@#$%^^%^*#$%@#^
I’m not saying the ending was bad, I’m not opposed to sad endings. But it was horribly written. There was absolutely no closure. If you’re suddenly going to kill everyone important in the book and send the main character into a death spiral, hinting that she might take others down with her, it might be a good idea to say at least some of what happened. The way she wrote it was completely unsatisfying and ruined the entire book for me.
This book was was probably the best book i’ve read.
It was so realistic and beautifully written.
The ending was something i didnt expect to happen but also it was actually very good but sad.
I love Ellen Hopkins style.
honestly i dont like most books cuz they are never really good and captivating, but i loved this book. Even though it was a sad ending i think it would have SUCKED without him dying. It shows life is not always a happy ending. the ending kept true to the dramatic setting the book had. I wish i knew if she really killed those people though. it was a cliff hanger where you didn’t need 1. I loved the message. Even though she didn’t get a happily ever after Pattyn learned to hold on to happiness when it comes for as long as you can.
This book is amazing! I actually cried in the end. And Pattyn made the right decision in the end, about God. Atleast i think so.
all her books make me want to keep reading after i finished the books…im just really sad over the ending of this one
i’ve read all of Ellen Hopkins books, and she is by far my favorite author . Although it’s extremely hard to shoose a favorite, i probably have to say Burned is definitely it . This book stirred up so much emotion in me and i cried more then once . i’ve definitely read it quite a few times . it was magnificent .
This book is by far the best book i’ve ever read in my life, there love they had for eachother is what people wish to happen. I cried because I was happy but then at the end I just broke down it was so tragic. I think the ending was good because people have to realize that life is not a fairytale and it isn’t always gunna end up happy.
I found the ending of this book amazing ! Even if books are a place to lose yourself I’m happy theres books out there that make you realize that everything isnt perfect and it doesnt give you false hopes. I love the way Ellen Hopkins writes and I have not found one book of hers to be bad ! =]
I adored the book Burned. The relation ship she had with him was everlasting. Love is the only thing that can get you through the hard times. The ending was dramatically sad, but it surely makes it more realistic. Life is full of depressing endings. Your books are incredible, write more!
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OMG!! i love this book. and the ending was great. This was the first book of Hopkins i picked up, and i plan on going back and getting more. this is a great Read for all young adults. Great work.
I loved it! But, I was sad at the end of the book:(
This book was amazing. The detail and the structure was very unique. The ending was pretty sad..
So far in my 13 years of existance, this book, by far, has been the best book I’ve ever read in my life.
The book was great! I love Hopkins’ writing style and her rare ability to keep the reader interested. Eventhough I was disappointed and a bit depressed by the ending, it was realistic when considering the rest of the story line. That poor girl just never caught a break.
I think the beginning of the book was boring. It really didn’t start getting interesting until page 94. I am a fan of her books but on the other reviews it said that this was the best book. I disagree i think Crank was the best. The ending of this book was sad. I didn’t really like it, but i get it because in the middle of the book it mentioned that stories dont always have happy endings.
The book was great but the ending was so sad that it made me cry.
I LOVE THE BOOK though.
Worth reading.
This book was definitely my favorite out of hers. Identical and Glass were also incredible, but neither one of them made me get as emotional as Burned did. Contrary to others’ opinions, I loved the ending. I greatly enjoy a good tragedy and none of Hopkins’ books ended with the same sense of hopelessness that Burned did. It was enough to make me want to cry. Any author that makes their readers feel such emotion is incredibly talented. I love books that have either very happy or very sad endings, anything halfway is just unsatisfying. This fell under the sad category, but it was amazing all the same. I also find Ethan’s love throughout the book to be the sweetest I have read about in a long time. Great job, Ellen Hopkins.
Oh! I wish they didn’t spoil the ending! I haven’t read it and was looking up reviews to see if this book was good.
Now I know what happens in the end… but oh well!
I love all of her books because I’m tired of seeing every book having a happy ending. Her books are filled with a big dose of reality. All of them made me tear up.
all of ellen hopkins books are amazing, and i actually liked the ending. when everything started unfolding, my eyes became holes in a dam. i couldn’t help myself! the emotions that flooded me thinking of how paytton must have felt were over powering. i loved it. it made her seem even more real to be effected in that way! i read the whole book in one sitting as i do all Ellen books. they’re so good. beats twilight anyday
I love this book! The ending is sad but I don’t that should take away how incredible the Burned is. Definitely one of her best.
This book was amazing! I couldn’t put it down! When I finished it I just read it again. I was heart broken like most of you when Ethan died. It’s like Payttn never knows love until ethan finds her but then she loses him and love. It just goes to show that life isn’t fair. The one thing that I did not like at all though was that Ellen Hopkins was pretty much saying Life doesn’t go on once you lose the one you love and that life is not worth living. And trust me that is not true. My mom lost my dad when i was at a very young age and she knows my dad wouldn’t want her to be sad or not to live life to the fullest. other than that part I would love for her to right more books like burned because it’s the best book I have ever read!
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can someone tell me about her other books because I can’t get this book out of my head and i need to start reading another one before I decide I don’t want to read any books except Burned. That’s how much i love this book. I know it’s kind of creepy.
i love all her book. they teach you some and will never bore you! i have read all but one of her books and working on flirtin’ with the monster and i never get tired of any of them!
Most of Ellen Hopkins books have a sad ending. All her books to me were good but burned was my favorite because it was the first book to have made me cry, and trust me i’ve read some sad books. Mrs. Hopkins book made me cry because of the story of Pattyn’s forever love and the heart breaking ending of Ethen’s death. I mean to read about a girl who finds a guy that is gorgeous, loves her, willing to leave his studys to marry her, and wants to take care of there unborn child (And lets be real girls, there is no guy like that out there) and to have him die in a car accident was to overwhelming. Ellen Hopkin’s Burned was a story worth reading.
this was a great book. but i just dont get the end! did she kill herself by jumping off the bridge thing? or did she shoot her father? i just dont understand. haha someone help me.
ive read all of ellen hopkins’ books. theyre all so good, i couldnt pick a favorite if i tried lol.
I think the book was amazing. I love all Ellen Hopkins books.. and this one is one of my favourites. I love the theme of the book, and I love the sence of surprise Ellen gives me in all her book. I love the fact that it’s a tragedy at the end and not Pattyn just getting away, because it changes the mood in the book and gives it something different.
THAT BOOK WAS SO GOOD I LOVED IT, BUT THE ENDING I WISH SHE WOULD HAVE TOLD THE ENDING ON HOW SHE KILLED THEM, DONT GET ME WRONG I STILL LOVE THE BOOK PERSONALLY I THINK THEY SHOULD MAKE MOVIES ON ALL OF THE BOOKS SHE WROTE!
SHE WAS MORMAN IF THE GUY WAS SO PEFECT SHE SHOULD OF TOOK HIM TO CHURCH AND STOP BEING STUPID AND PRAYED INSTEAD OF BEING A BRAT AND NONE OF THAT WOULD OF HAPPNED TO HER GOOD BOOK TO TEACH KIDS TO THINK
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i absoltly loved this book but the end was so sad it made me cry
wait so did pattyn kill herself or did her dad kill her or did she kill her dad im sooo confused?!?!?!?!
It never really says if she killed anyone. It just says that she wants to get back at all those people and at the end it leaves off with her thinking about it….
I thought the book was amazing.
Of course I Cried. But is still loved the ending either way.
Kind of ironic and unexpected.
Well I have to say this I’ve read Crank, Glass, and Impulse. I’ve never finished a book in my life. I’d forget about them about half way through. I heard my friends talking about these books and to this day I could never not finish Ellen C. Hopkins books they’re amazing and I don’t think I could ever read a better book they’re inspiring, interesting I love her books she needs to make more
I have not yet finshed the book! But what i have it soooo amazin to read Burned. The middle of the book is whin it get good!!!
I like all of Ellan Hopkins’ books. Especially Crank and Identical. This one was terribly sad, but it does not explain the ending very well. Are you supposed to guess for yourself? I hope she actually does kill her father. For some reason, I think that would make the book better. Although it’s really depressing after that she kills herself. (If she does.)
i havent finished reading the book but its amazing ive enjoyed every part of it.
This book was ahh-mazing. Really, the whole thing was super fantastic. It ended so sad though; made me cry. Poor Pattyn. But great job Ellen Hopkins. (: