The Lovely Bones-Alice Sebold

To start my blog off, I chose a book that recently has been made into a movie. I haven't seen the movie, but once I have, I'll probably post something about the book and the movie compared to eachother. Has anyone seen the movie?

This is quite a special book in the way it is told. I would not be sure where to put it, is it science fiction? The reason why I'm not sure, is that the story is about a girl, Susie Salmon, raped and murdered by her neighboor, and her family and friends after her murder, but it is told from her point of view, where she's looking down on them from heaven. This gives a deep insight in how she feels, and at the same time what her friends and family feels, since she can feel the same.

In this book, Susie's family consists of her sister, brother, mom, dad and grandma. As time goes by after her death, the family is both reunited and torn apart. Her friends gets really close to each other, finding solace in eachother's company. Especially two of the people she follows a lot, Ray, a boy she had a crush on, and Ruth, a rather odd girl she happened to run into just a couple of times, but that made a sticky impression on her.

The book follows them in years after her death, the way they grow up, change and live, with some glances back to her memories of when she was alive, and sometime she tells us about heaven, the people she meets there and what she does.

This book is absolutely recommended, for everyone. It is an amazing book, greatly written, and as few people can pull of the way the story is told, with so many details, Alice Sebold does it perfectly. The impression the story leaves is not as heavy as many, so you'll not be "pulled down into the darkness", but you're still left with some thoughts about it.

Have you read it? If so, what is your opinion on it?

 "Alice"