Critical Review

            The Lovely Bones is not a book for everyone. This book is heart wrenching and spine tingling. This book is meant for mature readers and all others wouldn’t get it. The first event in the book was Susie Salmon’s murder. Following that was how her family coped and the cops solved the murder.

            This is one book that grabs your attention with the first sentence, “My name is Salmon, like the fish. First name: Susie. I was 14 years old when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. I was here for a moment, then I was gone.” With the character being a 14-year-old who gets raped and murdered, you sympathize as she continues to tell the story from her point of view.

            When you make a bond with a character, whether it be in a book, show, etc. It makes the book more interesting. You don’t want to put down the book because you want to keep reading so you know what happens to the characters. This is the type of book that once you start reading you can’t stop. But, you don’t want it to end.

            While reading this you get pulled into this world where you know the Salmon family. You really care for the characters and those are the best type of books. Being pulled into a different world is the point of reading, and Alice Sebold nailed that when writing this.