~*~::{Reading Blog #43: Burned}::~*~

Currently, I am reading the book “Burned” by Ellen Hopkins. Personally, I really do enjoy reading this book. I think it is very good and it has a lot of emotion and you can learn a lot about the character just from reading this. The main character is an average teenager, and she goes through her life thinking many things different from what her family wants her to believe. She is a Mormon and her family doesn’t want her thinking about sex or freedoms or doing what she wants when she grows up…naturally, the only things she can think about are sex, freedom, and doing what she wants to do when she grows up. So far in the book, she has rebelled against her father’s wishes and thought about not being Mormon anymore, and she has been moved out to live with her aunt in Nevada for the summer. Little did she know that she would find romance in this dusty little state in such a short time. Soon enough, she falls for a local neighbor boy and has sex with him (going against her father’s wishes again) and falling totally in love with him. I do like this book, but I just think that it’s a little dramatic. I mean, I’m a teenager and we all have our little dramatic moments, but this book is like…holy God. There’s so much drama, it kinda makes me sick at times. It’s very well written and very good, I Just don’t really like the fact that it’s so dramatic and everything in her life is “terrible” and she is “hated” by her family.