What readers think of The Lovely Bones, plus links to write your own review.

I was extremely dissapointed with this book. I was expecting much more than I received, which was a clichéd story about a girl watching her family deal with her murder, in ways such as; trying to find her murderer and having an affair. The plot throughout the book is weak and the writing lacks description and poise. It may be a good book for sappy twelve year olds, but it should not be taken as a serious work of literature.

Maybe it was all the hype that did it, but I was disappointed by this book. I rate it high for its description of family life and (especially!) for its imaginative view of heaven, but the plot just clanked. Susie's last name should have been Creamcheese. Her "voice" didn't ring true for me.

Although I enjoyed this book, the hype to read it was overwhelming. I thought the book was definately OVERRATED!!! --> Keep your expectations low and you will have a better experience.

I gave up a whole Saturday to read The Lovely Bones and felt cheated and short changed at the end of the day. I am talking about the "cranked out" ending of the novel. I felt like it was tacked on to the end because the author couldn't pull it together any other way. However, I thought there were many other ways it could have ended than the unsatifactory way it did. The novel also took on the tiresome spin of feminisn--the mother who had to go find out who she really was--and desert her family. Haven't we read this character many times before in the last 20 years. It reminded me of the unsympathetic main character in The Deep End of the Ocean. Aren't there any mother characters in novels these days who do the hard work of staying in a painful situation because that's what the family needs.

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold takes readers to the hereafter.

One of the current topics of discussion around town seems to be what life is like after you die. Of course, there is no life, once you die that's it. Or is it? According to Ms. Sebold it isn't.

Raped, murdered and buried in a sink hole, Susie finds herself in heaven yet able to reach out to her family. Her touch is felt by those she loved and by one high school friend who just happened to be there when Susie went to heaven. The Lovely Bones is the story of how Susie's death affects those who knew her, especially her family.

There are some surprises, however for the most part this book is just what one would expect. The ending is good, but I like the characters the best. If you are looking for a short read that will suck you in, here it is.

I found the subject of the book to be intriguing, girls dies, looks down from heaven, comments on life, but I felt disconnected from it. I thought so much more could have been done with the still living folks in the story. I know it is narrated by the girl in heaven but it was difficult for me to identify with her, maybe I was trying to hard?! I don't know but it was a disappointing read for me.

I gave this book a three...I was really looking forward to this book because I saw it highlighted on the "Today' show and it really sounded good and intresting...it was disappointing to say the least!Ok,it was a good plot line,very good plot line but then it weered off into,foolishness...unnessary plots(like Ruth,what was she for?),the main character coming back by the end of the book into her friend's body and having her boyfriend make love to her! What was that for? I was saddened by how the writer treated heaven..treated it like it was a vacation with no real satisfaction in the charater longing to be back on earth but the main thing was like somebody else wrote,the character of the killer,no real punishment,just 'iced' away! THe book had it's good points and bad points,the bad more outweighed the good and I'll never really recommed this book but you make your own judgement.

There was so much hype about this book being "soooo good" that I think I expected too much out of it, and then was just a little disappointed after finishing it. Don't get me wrong, it was a good read, I just thought there should have been more to it. I was a little surprised at the "one chapter" near the end, it was a little unbelievable. I did like the way Sebold describes "in my heaven" and makes me think of those close to me who are in "their heaven" and hope that they are looking down on me like Susie did with her family.