The Lovely Bones

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3.9

(53.5K)

Alice Sebold

Watching from heaven, Susie Salmon sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet.

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Author

Alice Sebold

Pages

336

Publisher

Picador Classic

Published Date

2015-02

ISBN

1447275209 9781447275206

Ratings

Google: 5

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"Wow, very sad story. I highly recommend though. Kept my interest the whole time and felt a lot through this book. "

Skye Edelson-Bennett

"Emotional and sad. I read this weeks after my mom died in 2004. I wept"

Diane Morello

"lovely."

alexa <3

"Why did they make me read this after all I've been through. Enough."

Fidge (they/them)

"I thought it was a nice read, it made me cry a few times. Although I do wish they would’ve done more with mr.Harvey’s character. Maybe some more backstory or just making the book more about catching the killer than just her looking in on family and friends. <br/>**spoiler** when he dies it seems quickly glanced over, like it’s whatever and not that important. Also it’s nice that she was able to borrow Ruth’s body, but I kept thinking the whole time how does Ruth feel about her using her body for sex. I kept wanting clarification that Ruth gave permission."