““Alice Sebold tells her heartbreaking life story in the book Lucky. As a freshman in college Alice is a very gifted poet, and is excelling in her classes. On graduation day, as she celebrates a year of hard work, things turn for the worse. After spending time at a friend’s last day of school party, she is attacked while walking home. A man grabbed her from behind, and as she fought back he wounded her internally and externally. After struggling on the pathway for 15 minutes or so, the man took Alice into a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, and raped her. This event will change the rest of her life.
This book was impossible to keep away from. Once you read the first page, you’re hooked. As Alice Sebold restates her emotions, you feel them with her. Lucky will make you smile at Alice’s sarcastic remarks, but you surely will cry after understanding what she went through, and is still going through today.
So many people have judged things without even trying to understand them and you are clearly reminded in the pages of this book. I recommend this book to anyone, whether it be a boy, or girl, victim, or friend, or maybe just in for a good read. Lucky will touch everyone’s heart. I give it a 5 out of 5 star rating.”
Ashley. (: wrote this review Saturday, February 6, 2010.
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