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Even though I said I would never read The Lovely Bones, having watched and cried during the film, I somehow ended up prowling through it. And I’m glad I did. Yes, it is a heart-wrenchingly sad book. It is about death, about losing someone who you could never imagine life without, in the most brutal way possible. But it is so beautiful as well.
Susie Salmon is 14 when she is lured, raped and murdered by a man from her neighbourhood. Although she is dead, she can’t move on, and she watches from ab ...more
Susie Salmon is 14 when she is lured, raped and murdered by a man from her neighbourhood. Although she is dead, she can’t move on, and she watches from ab ...more
This book was utterly disturbing, but I found myself deeply unsettled after reading any of Sebold's books. There is something about the way she describes the characters that makes them feel so real to the reader...you feel their fear, sadness and confusion. As much as I can swear up and down that I'm too freaked out to read this story again, I couldn't put it down. It was like a train wreck; you want to look away but you can't tear your eyes from it.
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The story was moving and I enjoyed it - until the last fifty pages when things took a turn to the weird.
Mar 13, 2012
Ami Kismet
marked it as to-read
Jun 08, 2012
Megan Burchett
marked it as to-read
Aug 14, 2012
Francielle De Oliveira
marked it as to-read
