The Lovely Bones

"You aren't leaving Susie. You're mine now." Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, written in 2002 is a 328 murder novel. I enjoyed reading this book because it showed me how one girl's death had completely changed her family and everyone who knew her. This reminded me of the ripple effect, when a drop of water lands in a larger pool of still water it makes many ripples effecting a larger part. In the novel we see a girl named Susie Salmon, she is a young 8th grader about to start high school get raped and murdered by the psychotic George Harvey. Then she watches from heaven her father Jack Salmon and sister Lindsey Salmon try to solve her murder. She also watches her baby brother grow up and her friends experience high school life such as sex and getting driver's licences. Also she sees how her mother, Abigail deal with her death by leaving Susie's family. Alice Sebold's style is similiar to Jodi Picout's My Sister's Keeper. Readers aged 15 and higher would be suitable for reading this book because this book deals with mature content. Also people interested in the after life, and murder cases would be interested in this novel because those are the two major parts of it. After reading this book it gave me alot to to think about so I would strongly recommend this novel to somebody who would like to discuss what they read with others.

(written by Bhupinder)