The Lovely Bones

About a murdered 14 year old girl who recalls what happened from Heaven, as the incident affects those around her.

Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday." Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue."

So many people compare this book to Angel On Board by EJ Thornton and it isn't a valid comparison.

True both have main characters that reside in Heaven, but the messages are dramatically different. It is very likely that if you enjoyed one, you'd enjoy the other, but each does stand on its own. Try them both and see for yourself...



Compared to The Other Side of My Mind where one twin has died and the other doesn't and their bond transcends death, also tells such a hopeful story.

All are worthy of the time spent reading. Some will touch you more than others.

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