Book Review: “The Lovely Bones”
Author: Alice Sebold
Category: Fiction
If you like Oprah Books, you will like The Lovely Bones. I rate this book a 4 on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the best book I have ever read. The prose itself was moderately well-crafted and chapters were formatted to include an element of suspense to urge the reader to continue reading. Stylistically in this sense, this novel was reminiscent of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, which I would also rate about a 4.
To summarize the plot in a nutshell, the narrator describes her own brutal murder by one of her neighbors, and she tells the story of her family’s life after the murder as she watches it unfold from heaven. While some of my favorite books and movies are dark, the morbidity of this novel was not quite up to par because events were predictable and disappointing.