Bringing A Story To Life: The Lovely Bones

Have you ever picked up a book and just could not put it down no matter how hard you tried?

The story captivated you and kept you enthralled for hours.

One moment you are starting the first chapter and before you know it…you are finished. The story had drawn you in completely and captured your imagination. The words seemed to flow from the pages.

In The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold takes you on an incredible adventure about death, family and love.

It is not a spoiler to tell you that The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is centered on the tragic loss of a young woman's life. That much is told on the back cover. While there are other books that deal with children dying and the loss that comes after for families, this book is a bit different.

The story is more about living and what surviving members of a family have to go through in order to come to grips with their loss.

The concept that Sebold tries to bring to life in the pages of the book is not a new one. There have been countless stories about death and what happens when a person dies. Readers have commented on this religiously. For some the story had a very deep meaning and was comforting to them.

One reader who reviewed the novel found solace in her own devastating loss of her son. Others, however, found the writing to be superb up until the end. It is the end that they felt could have been done in a far greater way.

Whether or not Sebold snares your emotions and puts them through the proverbial wringer is all dependent on what you expect to take away from the book. If you are expecting a murder mystery then you definitely do not need to read this book.

The story is ultimately not about retribution or sleuthing to solve a murder. It is about something far deeper than could ever be explained here without spoiling the book's ending.

The Lovely Bones has already been made into a major motion picture. Whether you should read the book first or see the movie first is all up to you. The one thing you should keep in mind when doing either is that the book is not what you are expecting unless you have already been briefed on how it unfolds.

If you have not, then go ahead and snag a copy of the book on Kindle and read it before you buy your tickets.

That way you can discover whether or not Sebold truly does have the ability to bring this story to life.

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