Description: The Lovely Bones
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It takes a special kind of book to really make you not want to put it down. This book is one of those special books. You fall in love with all of the characters of this book. Especially Suzie and as time goes on and her friends age and her sister and brother grow up you feel even closer to her. Another character you become very close to is Suzie’s dad. He becomes so passionate about solving his daughter’s murder and, even though you probably won’t fall in love with Mr. Harvey, Suzie’s murderer, you will defiantly appreciate the dynamics of this character. He is one of the most believable fictional characters I have ever read about. He's the character you will be scared and paranoid about being in your closet for quite awhile. These are just a few of the fantastic characters that are present in this book.
Going deeper into the book one of the things I thought about was the example of heaven that it made. I thought it was very interesting that in most religions heaven is thought of being a paradise that where problems are nonexistent. However in The Lovely Bones it portrays a place that is sort of a halfway point almost. Where she still has sorts of pain and hurt and she was not completely relieved of all of her problems on earth. This is another reason this book is so amazing. It has a way of putting things together in a way that you wouldn’t think of and that is a lot of the beauty in this story.
So all in all if you are looking for a book that will keep you on edge till the very last word and wanting more. The Lovely Bones is for you. A Book that will make you feel like you’re in the book yourself then this book is your cheap vacation. Five out of Five stars no doubt. Now leaving you with a last thought, another beauty of this book is that you have such a long range of emotion that you feel. From sadness to happiness, even being sort of numb not knowing what to feel. So my final question for you is this. What emotions will you feel while reading The Lovely Bones?
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Suzie Salmon—“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life.”[