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Book Review: The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Interesting concept but I struggled with the idea that the narrator, a murdered 14 year old girl, could be so seemingly nonchalant about her murder. I would have liked to see more dimensionality in her character, more anger, less acceptance. A good idea and relatively well written but it lacked something. The story did not leave me hanging but some of the "resolutions" seem hurried and just too neatly wrapped up at the end.
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To me it felt like after she “crossed over” her rationale changed – like she was all of a sudden more knowledgeable or something…I can’t really explain it, but I felt like her emotions were no longer that of what you would expect from a 14 year old…
I can see that BUT I wish that had been inferred more or if the transition or change had been explained, even briefly. Also, the violence that happened to her would be emotional to anyone of any age, whether 14 or 34 or 54…
I loved reading this book. It is what made me so excited for the movie, but the movie i was very disappointed with. However, the book was very touching. You could feel the sense of loss in the father especially, and how he never gave up looking for her. The mother was so overcome with grief that she had to leave. The sister was heartbroken but had to learn to continue with life. And the little brother was too young to really grasp the meaning of “gone”. George Harvey, the man who murdered Susie, is a man you really begin to hate. This is a great book to teach people about how much pain one causes when abducting a child, how much families with lost children feel.