The Lovely Bones

The writing was good, but I saw the movie first, and the book was different.

Can I not restart it Jesus. This app is so frustrating to navigate for what we pay

The book is truly a work of art. A beautiful story of life and death.

A work so beautiful that it made me want to hug the protagonist, to kill the one who hurt her...
But I can't, just like she can't.

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From My Heaven, by author Alice Sebold, tells the story of Susie Salmon who is raped and murdered by her neighbor. From an in-between world between heaven and earth, Susie witnesses how her family is shattered by her disappearance and how her murderer plans to kill again... Will he succeed?
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If you want to see the movie, it's super beautiful but falls short compared to the book is The Lovely Bones.

Hang in there and bring tissues ? (Translated from Spanish)

I still haven't gotten over the movie and Susie's story :"(.

I know the book is going to be stronger. (Translated from Spanish)

It is a wonderfully painful book. Definitely better than the movie, although the movie is just as beautiful. I loved it and it made me cry a thousand times. (Translated from Spanish)

One of humanity's greatest questions answered, in its own way, is about life after death or what comes after death. With this introduction, one can only express from this book the complete representation of how a family experiences the loss of one of its daughters and how they navigate their mourning. As I once heard, losing a child is so powerful that there is no word to represent it, and this work attempts to represent it as closely as possible. Definitely, loved ones will never leave our side, as long as we keep all the moments and emotions shared together in mind. (Translated from Spanish)

A beautiful and sad book. (Translated from Spanish)

A tough subject to read. Tears are bound to escape. It's easy to consider how hard it is to let go, but here it tells us how hard it is to leave, how a life in full childhood is taken away and conveys its feelings. (Translated from Spanish)

I think if I'm honest I like it, but I expected to cry and die of pain, but in reality, it was heavy and I struggled to finish it. The first 100 pages were easy, but then it became horrible, so tedious, and honestly, it was pretty meh, just another read. However, you have to acknowledge that they adapted the book well to the screen. It wasn't the best, but you can tell they put in some effort. (Translated from Spanish)

I die slowly, with each line written..?? (Translated from Spanish)

I was one of those odd kids who read this type of book. A tough and heartbreaking book that marked me in my childhood and taught me to understand many issues. (Translated from Spanish)

Much better than the movie. Although it is also harsher and more explicit. (Translated from Spanish)

This book, despite its harshness, is a gem. A story about loss and overcoming it, which has also been quite respectfully adapted into a film. A few years later, I read the rest of the author's books, which, although not bad, do not reach the heights of this one. Alice's life is tough, which has turned her into someone with a darkened imagination. (Translated from Spanish)

Alice Sebold writes "The Lovely Bones," a moving and very sensitive story. Little Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl, narrates her story from her heaven, how she was terribly murdered by a neighbor, a cruel guy who acts in the coldest way and tries to hide all evidence of his crime. We see Susie clinging to her family and how she observes them dealing with her death and the pain that her loss brings them. Gradually, they begin to accept and overcome it.

It is a good story; personally, it affected me since I recently experienced the loss of a close family member, and the book addresses the themes of the stages of grief. In the end, we hold on to the hope of seeing our loved ones again. (Translated from Spanish)

I don't understand how this novel can convey so much in its beginning and then lose interest page by page. To my taste, it even becomes boring. (Translated from Spanish)

A hard book in which the greatest fear of a father, a girl, or a woman materializes... it is very powerful to read from the perspective of the victim and what is left behind... (Translated from Spanish)

I just finished the book and I admit that, although at first I thought it was going to be a story about teenage love, the ending filled me with melancholy and took a complete turn when the story addresses a real problem in our societies: violence and feminicide. It tackles the consequences that the painful loss of a loved one, taken in such a way, brings to the lives of an entire family and friends. At the same time, it provides details that we don’t know if they can be true or not, but that definitely fill you with curiosity about what lies beyond death. (Translated from Spanish)

It is a novel that initially struck me as very original because it is Susie, its protagonist, who narrates her murder with the innocence and tenderness of a girl who observes from the sky everything that happens after her death.

However, I found the reading rather heavy, causing me to lose my initial interest. It drags on too much, jumping continuously through time and between the experiences of different characters, emphasizing how her family and friends cope with life on earth after her death, while the initial plot about the resolution of her murder becomes stuck. (Translated from Spanish)

It seems to me a heartbreaking yet motivating novel about how life can change in just a few minutes. The author narrates everything that happened to her from the day she was blown up in such a way that it almost feels like one of the episodes of the series Criminal Minds. The author's bad luck is astonishing. I was on the edge of my seat until the end. It is very well written, and I put myself in the author's shoes and cannot understand how she managed to write this novel without suffering while doing so. (Translated from Spanish)

"From My Heaven" by Alice Sebold is a book that I really liked.
It is a very well-written psychological thriller, very original, that caught me from the first page. ?
It deals with the murder of a young girl (Susy) and how she, already dead, is watching ? everything that happens on earth ? with her family, friends, well, even with her murderer; from the place where she is, which she calls "my heaven."
It is told in the first person by Susy herself, and it is very, very sad.
Can you imagine the frustration of watching your loved ones suffer after you? ? The desperation of not being able to help them? ? The anger of seeing your murderer get away with it? ? And not being able to intervene? ?
It's very interesting!!!
I highly recommend it, especially for teenagers.
I don’t give it more stars ? because the ending disappointed me. (Translated from Spanish)

A sad story told in the first person: the violent death of a teenage girl who silently witnesses from her corner of heaven the changes her sudden loss brings to her family members who struggle to cope and move forward, and the fruitless searches to discover her body and her unpunished killer... An emotional book that is easy to read but sometimes gets lost in description and navigates between anguish and sadness... Not suitable for the sensitive. (Translated from Spanish)

I finished this novel yesterday, and although it was a difficult read at times due to its disturbing subject matter, it ends on a hopeful and even tender note. I devoured the novel in two and a half days. The writer Alice Sebold dissects the series of emotions that an entire family experiences after the violent death of one of its members. Contrary to what I thought when I started reading it, I realized that it is a novel full of love and hope. I highly recommend it. (Translated from Spanish)

Always intriguing, it invites you to want to know the why, when, and how of events, not to mention the mixed emotions it evokes. I simply loved it. (Translated from Spanish)

I can only say that From My Sky has transported me to tenderness, to feelings that those of us who have lost loved ones make you think that they will be okay. It's a sad and hard story since it's about a 14-year-old girl who is raped and murdered, but it has left me with a good taste in my reading instead of bitterness. I am new to reviews, but I contribute my bit to give you my humble opinion of the book. I give it an 8.5. ??❤❤?? (Translated from Spanish)

The murder of Susie Salmon at the age of 14, how her father becomes obsessed with finding the killer, and loses all sense of his life and his two children that remain. I don't know if it's the poor translation, but in this novel, you have to pay very close attention or read it very slowly because there are sudden changes in time and place. Average novel. (Translated from Spanish)

Pretty and entertaining, easy to read, the only thing I didn't love was the ending. (Translated from Spanish)

It is a wonderful story that, although it begins with a horrific tragedy, shows us through the eyes of a brutally murdered 14-year-old girl what happens in the life of her family and loved ones after her death. How they live through grief, how they overcome pain, how they move forward. I find it extraordinary... I really enjoyed it. (Translated from Spanish)

It is a tragic story that highlights the vulnerability of children and adolescents... (Translated from Spanish)

"From My Heaven" was not an easy read. Not because it is of poor quality; in fact, I was surprised by how well-written it is and how wonderful some of the images it evokes are. However, it is a work that touches on very heavy themes with a depth that can leave you with a pit in your stomach: abuse, death, forgetfulness. These are murky elements that require a skilled pen to be represented with the respect and maturity they deserve. Fortunately, Alice Sebold possesses the necessary ability to achieve such a difficult objective.

It is an emotional and intimate work, with a conclusion that lacks grand displays but fits like a tailored dress. Sometimes it brushes so closely against realism that it becomes unsettling. Of course, it does not neglect the supernatural tones that the premise of a girl telling us about her death from heaven is obliged to have.

“Killers are not monsters; they are men. And that is the most terrifying thing about them.” (Translated from Spanish)