The Lovely Bones

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Emotional submitted by xoxobrenda on June 25, 2011, 8:24pm This is a book full of human emotions and longing. It makes you think about the imperfectness in the world. It touches on how a family must overcome and cope after a child's death, how the main character can't seem to stop watching life go on from heaven, how she realizes her life ended with so many empty holes...NOT a book for middle schoolers. Some scary and sexual scenes.

loved it submitted by ColeenT on July 13, 2011, 4:58pm amazing story

Interesting and different submitted by jennifer-ricks on June 19, 2013, 6:48pm A story told from the point of view of somebody in heaven after her death. She watches as her family and friends face live in her absence. Interesting and different.

better than the movie submitted by hathaway1066 on July 22, 2013, 11:25pm the book is much better than the movie--it has a can't-put-it-down quality, even though it's very sad.

So bad submitted by EJZ on July 23, 2018, 8:15pm it starts off nice and starts to hook you, but then Sebold starts playing with plotlines and putting in twists that really make no sense other than being something a tween girl would fantasize about happening. It sells books, but it didn't make for very good reading material in the end.

A View From Above submitted by ekjensen on July 26, 2018, 9:41pm The book's protagonist, a murdered teen girl, grips the reader in the first chapter and holds interest as she views her family from heaven and how they cope with the grief of this lost soul, however. What makes this not a great read, just a very good one is how it rushes an ending and wraps up everyone's lives a little too neatly.

Okay submitted by zmclaugh on July 29, 2018, 11:05am I like the concept of this, but I found how things played out to be strange. There were definitely some moments that rang true, but also a lot that didn't.

Beautiful, soul wrenching twist on a standard coming of age tale submitted by Shannonviolin on July 8, 2022, 12:57pm Without giving spoilers, this story has a major tragedy very early on and then explores how that incident affected the 5 lives surrounding it.

Gripping writing and story! submitted by MadPiggy on September 9, 2022, 11:54pm I fell in love with Sebold's writing from the first work of hers that I read: Lucky. She has a raw, graphic style of writing which is poetic but mirrors reality, in a way that you empathize with the characters she's giving a voice to. Sebold does not disappoint with this style of writing in this book as well. The topic she's chosen to write about is interesting and important too: the murders of young American women, a rampant features of not too many decades past. This is a work of fiction, but it examines the event of death in its wake.