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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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eatwritereadrepeat's review

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dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

beautifully depressing

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litzy56's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This is a good book the chapters always left with an interesting thing making you want to read more and this was the first book that I ruined my sleep for idk probably 4 days? And the ending was alright I felt like it was rushed like you knew the end was coming and I also had so many questions at the end of the book like did the mom leave? Were they a happy family?

I loved the father I’m glad he didn’t die cuz his son needed him and he was such a good father to his son and daughter like when he would carry his son in order to see him smile or when he talked to her about shaving when he wasn’t supposed to do that. I hate how that grandma died and how she didn’t see Susie in heaven like what??? First of all I loved that grandma I was here for her craziness she just made me smile I really hope they can reunite. Probably the only death I accept is Holiday’s like I could feel his excitement when seeing Susie. I hate how Mr. Harvey died like I really wished for something worse yk like being tortured death was kind of the easy route. Also that one scene when Ray and Susie made love was so cute like bro this is also my first time reading a book that had that in like it kinda described it but not really idk they were just so cute but I hated how it was Ruth’s body and not hers like if would have been better if they had sex with her body but oh well he knew it was her that’s all that matters. Also Lindsey and Samuel are so cute like bro the proposal was cute and everything they got me screaming at night but why would they name their child the same name as her mother? Is everything good now? Does the mother and son now get along well? Was he able to forgive her? So many questions I really would have wished that they were answered or they were clarify better.

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clarissaalcala's review

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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suklaa's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Really disappointing. From what I heard of this book before, I thought it was about a girl getting murdered and then watching her family/the police trying to solve her murder. It's not that. Well it is in the beginning but then towards the end I literally I forgot that Susie got murdered because it's not talked about at all.

her killer also never gets caught and just dies an anticlimactic death.

. This book is more about her family, her crush and some other characters moving on after her death. But even that isn't done in an interesting way. The pacing is painfully slow and it took me a long time to finish this. The only reason I didn't DNF this was because I wanted to know if Susie's killer ever got caught.

he didn't.

. This book was just so boring and was wasted potential.

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