The Lovely Bones (2002) (edit title/settings)

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“i have saw the movie but i have never read the book so i want to


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“Award winner- This book won an Iowa High School Book award. ”

• Rated 3 stars

“read it because of the movie... SO MUCH BETTER than the movie tho... However not really my kind of book”

• Rated 5 stars

“Review #2: The Lovely Bones was, I found very stressful, but yet enjoyable to read. Throughout the whole book, there were always sad moments where you felt empathy for Susie Salmon's farther, who thought he knew who was his daughters murderer. Although the novel it self talked about a serious and doleful issue, there are also parts of the book where I was mad and felt the same emotions that the narrator was feeling. Such as the stress Susie must have been facing when her sister went into Mr. Harvey's house to find any clue that he had killed her older sister. Susie was in heaven and dead she wasn't worried for herself she was worried about the people that she loved who were still living, and could be in danger from Mr. Harvey. There were some scenes where I found myself being mad at some of the characters, but not the obvious characters such as Mr. Harvey, but characters like Susie Salmon's mom. She seemed to be a great person in the book, and the death of her daughter greatly effected her like everyone else, but she did not have the right to cheat on her husband with the police officer Len Fernman so she forgot about her daughter's murder. I thought that she shouldn't have done that, and should be strong for her other two children who greatly need her. She is being passive with her husband and family. She won't even try and believe what her own husband says about Mr. Harvey being the criminal who killed their daughter. At that point in the book I was disappointed and mad that she would do such a thing to her already broken family. There was a major climax point in the novel, which I found was the moment when Lindsay Salmon, sneaked out of her boys soccer practice into Mr. Harvey's house to find what could lead to him being the murderer of her sister. Like her dad, Lindsay was convinced that Mr. Harvey committed this awful crime, that has broken their family. She sneaked into the house and found drawings of the underground cabin, in the cornfield, and that is when everything fell into place in her head. This book has a lot of suspense in it, and when reading it I always feel like Mr. Harvey will strike again. I greatly recommend this book.


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• Rated 4 stars

“Susie sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet . . . The Lovely Bones is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting - but, above all, about finding light in the darkest of places.”

• Rated 3 stars

“Well written but seemed to "drag" at times. For me, personally, I kept reading to see when her body would be discovered and the murderer caught. Was kind of disappointed with the ending. The author however did a good job of describing the emotions the family went through during such a tragic time.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Loved the perspective of this book. Brillantly done but at times I would get confused about the main character and where she was, in heaven or earth. The characters were well developed and became a part of me. I think this was the best part of the whole book, was getting to know, really know, the characters. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“The violence inflicted upon the teenage protagonist at the beginning of the book was extremely tough to read, but I soldiered through and this became one of my favorite books. It was very well written. Very graphic violent imagery in the beginning chapters, but well worth reading to the end.”

• Rated 3 stars

“This book seems very interesting. I've read the summary and it's about a young girl who was on her way home.. got murdered. As she's in heaven she watches her family and friends go through all the misery. ”

• Rated 3 stars

“hmmm... this can be an unsettling read, depending on where you are in life. I read this book for bookclub, and as always i love stretching my reading. I enjoyed this book, and found many good things about it. I enjoyed Susie's viewpoint from the hereafter, told in first person. Susie is a young girl who is raped and murdered at the beginning of the book, and the viewpoint of the book is obviously a child's view. She isn't ready to let go of our reality, and watches and comments on life as it goes on without her. The effects of her death are viewed through her on her famly and friends. She has some humorous observations and obvious frustrations watching everyone try to move on without her. How her death affects friends and family was interesting and probably contriversal - everyone handles grief differentlly, and views the afterlife differently, so this made for an interesting book club discussion. I had problems with a few things towards the end of the book, but I believe this is the result of my expections from growing up. I can see this being a difficult read for some parents (parent's nightmare) and anyone who has suffered death. Regardless, I understand why it's such a popular book, especially for bookclub. ”