Are you in need of something a little different to read? Then now is the time to pick up our new Spotlight Book called: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Piper recently reviewed it and thinks that you might have a lot to gain by diving into this dramatic and tragic storyline. Check out a portion of her review:
“The book begins with Sebold’s teenage character narrating the story of her brutal rape and murder by a serial killer neighbor as she takes a shortcut through the cornfield on her way home from school. It’s a brutal scene that was hard to get through but it was never crude. After her death, Susie watches over her grieving loved ones from her perch in heaven; specifically, Susie’s personal heaven. She watches as this vicious crime tears her family apart, brings together her community, and alters her friends’ lives forever. I pitied her father, was confused by her mother, wanted to love her little brother, and identified with her sister. And I, of course, wanted a long and painful public quartering for the murderous bastard that caused all of this. In a perfect world, right?”
Whoo wee, this is definitely a doosey of a read! If you are up for the challenge, go for it and pick up The Lovely Bones at our LBT Store and drop Piper a line or two on what you thought of Sebold’s novel in her review here
