The Lovely Bones in Around the World in 80 Books

Jun 05, 2018 Jen rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, other-realms, crime-without-mystery, z-2018-read

A moving portrait of the impact on a family and a town when a teenage girl is violently murdered--including the impact on the deceased herself as she watches her loved ones from the afterlife. There's no mystery as to whodunnit, since we "see" the murder, and the dead teen also watches the murderer's life play out. I really liked Sebold's conception of the afterlife--although there was an element I felt could've been left out of the story--and also her depiction of the fragmentation of the statu ...more

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Mar 26, 2011 Vesra (When She Reads) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery, l, young-adult, author-s, pub-little-brown-and-company, favorites, adult, read-2005, 2011

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I wasn't really aware on what is the fuss all about when this book came out. I thought it would be just another chicklit so I should just avoid it like a plague. A couple of years later, I have stumbled onto this book once again and reread the reviews given by my friends. A nudge inside me told me I should just try reading it to see what's the hype was all about.

And I did!

Boy, I was wrong in all places about this book. The first page drew me in and I can't put the book down unti ...more

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Aug 06, 2007 Ashley rated it it was amazing

This is a novel about a young girl who is raped and murdered and goes to heaven. While shes in heaven, she watches down over her family to see how they are doing and she also watches the police and see how they are doing on solving her case. So the book switches back and forth from Heaven to Earth...sort of a yin/yang thing going on. I liked it a lot. It was very suspenseful...couldn't put it down. ...more

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