A review by tryst3ditor
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

3.0

I had this book added before, but decided my review was a little harsh. Problem I had with the book is that I think it fails about three-fourths of the way. It's sort of a modern twist on "Our Town" - the three-act play by Thorton Wilder, except you have a serial killer, the victim who is now a ghost, a young girl. My problem was the ending. It was not good, a little predictable, idealistic and unbelievable. Somehow, she couldn't close the story, so Sebold makes up some wild, unlikely ending for her heroine, the killer ends up dying by his own clumsy mishap. I can't help but think she might have needed to do a tad more research on the psychology of serial killers, however gruesome that task might have been. On the whole, for a first book, I think Sebold did a pretty good job. She can only get better with maturity.