The Lovely Bones by
Alice Sebold was an surprising book. It was something that I read slowly but I enjoyed
it. It wasn’t what I expected.
I got interested in The Lovely Bones due to the
movie that was recently released. It seemed like a movie right up my alley: suspenseful,
well-acted, deeper then you expect and a hot lead actor never hurts. Never got around to seeing it, so who knows if
my expectations were even met. But my interest was piqued and when a friend
offered the book to me, I gladly took it.
I will say very quickly into reading the book, I wondered
how the movie could be done well. It seemed like it would be a difficult book
to fully translate and really get a narrator who was balancing between heaven
and the world she lost without making it cheesy. The book really tells the tale of a murdered
victim seeing the people around her continue living and be affected by her
death.
The thing that struck me the most was the characters. There
were some deep characters in there and things that you don’t always expect. Like
the boyfriend to Susie, he was Indian with an British accent. Not just a cookie
cutter character. Plus you had Ruth who was a little darker then you thought
she would be. Then the family who just fell apart in both the usual and unusual
ways.
The plot could be a bit dry. It was the leading reason as
to why I read the book slower then I would have liked. It was a slow moving
book without a ton of action. It was more feeling and experiencing.
This isn’t a book I can easily pick apart. I enjoyed it. The
book was good.
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