Hardcover, 328 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2004 by Back Bay Books.
This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story.
Characters are dull. Plot is empty. Books don’t always need to be exciting or have a great resolution but I just couldn’t get interested in this book. I didn’t care what happened next, and by the end of the book it didn’t matter because nothing happened.
I have had this book for ages and decided to read it as a book project. I found it to be a good book, a long one, but well worth the read. I had watched the movie before reading the book and now I know better then to do that one, as the book is sure different from the movie. But I enjoyed both, the movie and the book.I found both very emotional. This book will stay with me for a long time.It is the first book I have read by the author, but wont be my last. What a great story.
Disappointing! I really expected to like this book but it was a big " meh". The characters were so one-dimensional...could not like any of them. The ending was weak as well...If heaven is sitting around watching your loved ones for years and years, I hate to see what hell is like LOL!
The Lovely Bones is a heartbreaking story pretty much from beginning to end. I saw the trailer for the movie first, then a friend lent me the book. I read it over a weekend. I thought it might be hard to get into the novel, at first. Instead the author provides a pretty intense hook at the very beginning, so readers would feel not only a compulsion to continue reading, but a responsibility - to honor the main characters life and death. To "watch" a family go through the heartache of loss - not only physical loss, but emotional, as well - creates this sense of connection, of belonging to their loss.
I heard rave reviews of this book, and resisted reading it because of the sad subject. I finally did break down and read it, and it is a wonderful book and well worth reading.
