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Smoke Hardcover – September 10, 2013

4.6 out of 5 stars 219 customer reviews
Book 2 of 2 in the Burned Series

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  • Hardcover: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (September 10, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1416983287
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416983286
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 1.6 x 7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (219 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,221 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I went to bed last night with about 150 pages left...if you know me, you know I'd already peeked at the ending, so that was NOT the reason I got up an hour later to finish. I just had to see HOW Pattyn and her sister Jackie got to that ending.

BURNED leaves Pattyn sitting on an overpass with a loaded gun. Nothing to live for; nothing to lose.

This one opens with her on a bus, fleeing her home where she's just shot and killed her father. The story is told in her voice and Jackie's. Jackie's brutal beating at the hands of their horror of a father is what motivates his killing, and the girls try to find a new normal: Jackie having to see her rapist every day (that's what caused her beating. Their father blamed her for her own rape and would probably have beaten her to death if he hadn't been shot), watching her pretty worthless mother fall under the spell of her attacker's father, having to stay quiet about her own suffering, and dealing with the loss of her father and her sister.

Pattyn ends up in CA, living temporarily with a Mexican family, and finally getting a job on an isolated ranch. She begins to find connections, both with the people around her, and a beautiful wild mustang, Shoshone, who needs her gentleness.

Along the way Hopkins gives us plotlines about abuse, domestic terrorism, gay-rights issues. Her characters are finely drawn to be people with baggage. This is the appeal for an Ellen Hopkins book. Kids see their own struggles with huge issues in her characters.

As with the first book, I was discomfited by the subplots about the Mormon community. I had several Mormons read the first book, and they were able to see Hopkins is NOT attacking the entire religion, but she is shining a light on the hypocrisy of SOME leaders.
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On the run, alone, and haunted by her ghosts. Pattyn Von Stratten is desperately trying to hide from everything that has happened to her. The deaths of Ethan, their baby, and (now) her father. She hops on a bus and ends up in Vacaville, CA where she meets a Hispanic girl named Adrianna and her family. After protecting Adrianna from a robbery and an - almost - rape, she is invited back to her home to stay. After a few weeks, Adrianna's brother, Angel, comes home from the farm that he works at and it is decided that Pattyn (or Patty, as she's going by now) will go with him to work as a maid for the family who lives on the farm. The family is relatively normal, except for the fact that the teenage daughter has some deep seeded anger issues, hangs out with two destructive guys who are not afraid to kill, and who could blow up at any moment. Despite this (small?) danger, Pattyn finds acceptance and even new love with Angel, if only she could get past the secrets so built up inside her.

As for Jackie, Pattyn's once upon a time best friend and closest sister, her secrets are eating up at her as well. The night their father died, he had walked in on Jackie being raped by one of the boys from their church. He didn't believe it when she told him what happened and he began to abuse her. Hitting her, kicking her, telling her she was ruined and that she deserved what she got. Pattyn walked in with her gun and after an altercation, their father ended up dead. Although Jackie wants desperately to relieve herself of this terrible secret inside her, she's forced to keep quiet. By the bishop at the church, by her rapist's father, and even by her own mother. She has no friends and no Pattyn, no one to turn to, until she meets Gavin.
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By Doll-ar on November 18, 2013
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Ah, Smoke. I had re-read "Burned" before reading this and was so excited that this book was getting a sequel because it really needed one.

However, I think this may be my least favorite Ellen Hopkins book so far. It's not that it was BAD. No, Ellen never writes anything outright BAD. It's just that, it got very repetitive with flashbacks to the previous book. Now, I know that sequels need SOME flashbacks to the previous book, but it was overwhelming with how many flashbacks she put in there. And there were some parts where it fell flat.

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Like how, in the previous book, they put Caleb as this "good Christian boy" and how he has a crush on Pattyn. Yet, in this book, he's a rapist who wanted to take control of Jackie. It would've been nice if maybe this had been at least HINTED AT in the previous book. Also, there's one part where Pattyn asks "so what happened to me? what happened to Jackie?" when talking about how good Mormon girls are supposed to stay good Mormon girls. In the previous book it says NOTHING about Jackie going astray or questioning her Mormon faith or sexuality. Unless I've overlooked something. I'm pretty sure I remember Pattyn HIDING certain things from Jackie in the previous book because she knew that Jackie was still very much into the Mormon faith and not questioning anything about sex, or so it seemed. Again, it would've been nice if this was at least HINTED AT in the previous book.

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Not just with references to the previous book though. There were also parts where the characters suddenly having a change of heart felt very FORCED and not fully developed. However, Ellen still does what she does best: grabbing the reader's attention and making them keep reading. Like I said, it's not a BAD book by any means, but it could've been better.
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