Lovely Bones

It was quite an enjoyable read, an interesting point of view and fairly upbeat despite the subject matter. However it was spoilt by the Hollywood ending. I am all for redemption and happiness in a story but this got a little to sickly sweet for me.

I found this book quite strange, it was a good read, but really hard to read as well, because alot of it is things you dont want to hear about.

I thought the second half of the book fell off a bit, but overall I was surprised that I liked it as much as I did.

Beautiful and so sad it was almost painful to read in parts. Even though I am female, and don't have children, I found myself identifying with the father and his immense grief.

I enjoyed Lovely Bones especially for its idea of heaven. I've now decided MY heaven is going to have a beach and mango trees. The book, however, went on too long. There a few times when I thought it should have been the end, and it would have been satisfying.

I found this surprisingly good - if you had to put out a list of things that I would hate in a novel then this would be it: angels, paedophilia, sloppy americans and retribution. This book has all of them, in spades, and yet I thoroughly enjoyed it.