G.H. Eckel’s Reviews > The Lovely Bones > Status Update

Great concept, great beginning. Part way into the first quarter of the novel Sebold resorts to talking about events in a summary style, that doesn't work. She has the perfect authorial agent of an angel who is able to listen to everyone, the truly 3rd person omniscient narrator. It would have been more powerful just to let the angel be a fly on the wall and listen to what was going on in her dad's investigation, etc.