The Lovely Bones

the concept of the story was interestingbeing told through the little girl's point of view but it wasn't believable.

A haunting tale that took an unbelieveable turn near the end. I enjoyed this book but felt it could have been so much better.

this book I felt was very well written and very believable, so much so in fact that I cried through alot of the chapters. The author knew what she was doing when she wrote it from a child's point of view.

This was a quick easy read. It definitely holds the readers interest even though the author's idea of heaven is completely ridiculous and Biblically off the mark, but this IS a fictional book not a devotional! :- Try it..you'll finish it in a day or two.

I picked this book up on a whim to read while on vacation a couple weeks ago and boy am I glad I did. I'm usually a horror/thriller type of reader but this caught my interest. What I liked about it was the different perspectives of not only being told through a 14 year olds eyes but also the view on her heaven and how she still yearned for her family and friends and all the things she missed out on. She was brutally murdered but it's not about her revenge on her murderer but more about helping her father find some peace with it all and watching them grieve and love and age. I'll definitely have to check some more of this author's work out and see if they all can touch me like this book did.

One book, two rapes. How's that for a bargain? (The book only advertises one.) Yuck. The book in question is Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. I'm not giving anything away by saying it's a book about a girl (the narrator) who was murdered. That's revealed in the book's second sentence. It's also not a......more

Out of my entire reading list for 2022, more people commented about The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold than all of the other books combined! The Lovely Bones begins with the tragic death of a fourteen-year-old girl, Susie Salmon (like the fish). From there, we follow Susie’s family and friends as well......more

I worked at Borders for more than a year and I worked the boring ass registers, usually at night whic was always slow. I leaned there with my chin in my hand staring at the shelves actually wishing that I could help customers in their purchases. It's purely insane, but I think that's what happens an......more

I’m finally free of this book......more

I can't review this book by thinking about the plot or about theme and diction, for it is only (and truly) a series of snapshots, candid and sore, that piece together the lives of living people. The delicate sweet soul of a father; a grandmother with the heart of an empath; a sister whose youth and......more