A review by reasek
Lucky by Alice Sebold

5.0

The first sentence of this novel was one of the most powerful, terrifying, and captivating beginnings to a story I have ever read. Before I read it, i was hungry, annoyed and waiting for mu boyfriend to get off the phone so we could get dinner. Once I began reading it, I ignored absolutely everything until I could finish the first chapter. I finished this book the next day. It is so perfectly honest. Sebold does not try to play herself up, pretend she was stronger or weaker in moments when maybe another author would feel she needed to be. Sebold tells her story in this book the way she told it on the stand - calm, clear and truthful.