The Lovely Bones

A novel

by Alice Sebold

Hardcover, 328 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2004 by Back Bay Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-316-66634-3
OCLC Number:: 54999575

(10 reviews)

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.

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Maddie reviewed The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Meh

1 star

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.