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Average Rating: Rating: - The Lovely Bones - Lovely Heartbreak I have always been a fan of books that hook you within the first few pages, and this book layed brutal hooks in me right away. The novel's lead character and narrator, Susie Salmon, is already dead when readers are first introduced to her. Susie is raped and killed by her neighbor, George Harvey, who we later get to know on a deeper level. The novel explores what the afterlife may be like, and the many different levels of grief that people go through to find the strenghth to move on. As readers we see through Susie's eyes and feel the pain of losing those we love. We watch Susie's little sister, Lindsay mature, her mother grow distant, her father's obsession with finding her killer, and her little brother Buckley attempting to understand death. Who knew the such a painful subject would make to be a great work of insprational fiction? This is one of the best books I have read yet. Rating: - Ms. Sebold should never stop dreaming ... The first chapter begins with an agonizingly disturbing account of the fourteen-year old Susie Salmon who was brutally raped and murdered by schzoid neighbor Mr. Harvey and later proceeds on to telling how her family has disintegrated with the impact of the murder. Her father suffers a depression from pursuing her daughter's death; her mother retreats and ends up having an affair; her tragic siblings Lindsey struggles with her loss and Buckley gripping with filling the hole in the family. Yet familial hell isn't what makes The Lovely Bones sensational. It is Sebold's child-like narration that renders the book poignant with lost innocence and her mastery at revitalizing the readers' senses with vivid descriptions of smell and Heaven. She uses objects like a monopoly game and bottleships to tacitly echo out the character's interplay of emotions - and expressing effectively their grief. The family matures and connects like the bones, becoming stronger and gives us a renewed sense of faith and understanding as to why each family member errs. I empathize with Abigail's merciful adultery and how Jack has overlooked his daughter Lindsey in his frantic search for Susie. What's a little sentimentalism when the book is emotionally honest? A good book rewards a reader with insight and experience - and The Lovely Bones achingly underscores the importance of letting go one's grief to focus on the better things of life. This message cannot be more timely or resonant in this era of chaos. Rating: - Good storytelling Every year, usually in summer, there seems to appear a much heralded new book that everyone rushes to gush over and buy and it becomes a best seller and seems bound for the movies. This summer's quirky winner is Alice Sebold's THE LOVELY BONES and while it rolls around the country gathering admirers it raises the question of "What will the book be a year from now?" Sebold writes well and knows how to maintian interest in her characters, yet I think the main reason this little book is raising attentive eyebrows is its premise that Heaven is a place from which we can look down after death and follow all the paths less taken in life. The beginning of the novel - a young girl's murder told in descriptive terms that border on maudlin - is a great attention grabber. Can the dead Susie in Heaven help her disintegrating family rediscover each other as they cope with their loss and strive to find the murderer? Once the setting is in place, what happens is entertaining to read but not wholly original or especially beautifully composed. This is a good book, destined to increase the audience for this novelist's work, but the question arises as to her ability to find another gimmick for her next book. OR, does she really need one? Only a year's time will provide us the answer. Not an Award Winner, but a terrific light read.

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