The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Type: Fiction
My rating: 4 stars (out of 5)
Why I chose it: I noticed that someone in my friends network on Facebook commented about how they couldn't finish this book because it "freaked" them out. I am intrigued by someone who can put into words something which has the ability to hit an emotional chord with its reader.
What I liked about it: The story is about a girl who dies and goes to heaven and then watches as her family continues on with their lives. This is definitely a pager-tuner. It is part crime story, part ghost story, part family drama. This had the makings of a 5-star book until the last 25% after which, without giving away the plot, it took a bit of a turn and contained a few hokey events. This book is being made into a movie to be released in December 2009. While I generally do not like movies that are adapted from books (the exception being The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, which I thought stayed very true to the book), I think that this could turn out to be a really good movie.
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