A review by suzzeb22
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

3.0

I truly did enjoy the first half of this novel. I think Alice Sebold has an interesting voice in fiction and her characters seemed quite real. The pacing of the novel, however, was all over the road. At times it was like she inserted a new character and someone (or maybe she herself) wrote out a vague physical description and then threw that in like it was part of the story but it came off as a footnote.
Case in point, Ray's mother.
I hated the bit towards the end where Suzie inhabits someone else's body. Horrible plot device in my opinion. It's too bad because I'd liked it until then. Also, the Mother character was not very well fleshed out.
So, I'm giving this one a 3.