The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Hey guys,

I have read The Lovely Bones from Alice Sebold. This review contains some plot details so *spoiler alert*!

The Lovely Bones handles about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, heaven and earth, happiness and sadness, memory and forgetting.

This book tells a story about how a family has to handle the death of Susie, the oldest daughter of the family and also the narrator from this book. Yes, she tells the story from heaven, from the Inbetween (between heaven and earth). After the murder, Susie follows the lives from her family members, friends and even her murderer, watching from the Inbetween. Susie was raped and murdered by *spoiler* a serial killer, her own neighbour.

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. 

There are many people who might not like to book, because it's a little bit bizarre or even boring, because there isn't much action. But I still wanted to read it, because I was fascinated by the movie. So now you're probably wondering if my expectations got fulfilled? Yes and no are both a correct answer. 

I first saw the movie before I started reading the book, because I've heard that the book was rather complex. I'm happy that I did so, because indeed the book contained a lot of difficult words and there also were a lot of flashbacks, that were hard to follow. Because I had seen the movie first, the book was like a detailled version of the film. You understand the line of thoughts of the characters better, there are more story-lines etc. It's crazy to kill your narrator in the first pages of your book, especially if you even dare to tell this soon who the murderer is. It has to be so hard to keep the story exciting and interesting if the reader already knows everything from the start. But Alice Sebold has succeeded in this mission.

If you want to know if Susie's murderer will ever be arrested, if Susie will go to another place than the Inbetween, if her family will ever be able to go on with their lives... you will have to read the book! I promise you that it will be very interesting. I hope you enjoyed this weeks blog and don't forget to...

just keep reading, just keep reading, just keep reading reading reading... -Dory (Nemo)

lots of love, 

Phaedra