Reviewed by: Carisa Weeaks, MyShelf.Com
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Susie Salmon was thirteen when she was brutally raped and murdered. Now she has to sit in heaven and watch her parents, sister, brother, and grandma Lynn, go through the motions of losing a young loved one and finding out that life is never the same for anyone when one has been taken away - especially through murder.

Ruth is a budding artist and poet who could care less about people...well, everyone except Susie and Ray. When she hears that Susie has been killed, she starts to obsess about what happened to her and who she really was. Ruth begins to allow her thoughts, her feelings, to resonate in her head, allowing Susie to find out what she had never known about her withdrawn but blunt classmate...she likes girls not guys.

The police throw suspicion in the wrong direction, so wrong in fact that their suspect, Ray Singh, who had written Susie a love letter and had stuck it in her locker where she had found the day she was murdered. The real killer - the sick, twisted man who has killed more than once - is closer and more deadly than ANYONE (except her father) could guess. Will her killer ever pay for what he's done?

Will Susie's family be able to move past this horrible tragedy? Better still . . . will Susie?

The plot of The Lovely Bones is unique and filled with unforgettable characters. It has the true and stark reality of growing up in the 1970s and how no one's life is truly protected. You'll laugh, cry, and scream. Don't skip any parts -- each has important information needed to understand the true meaning of the story. "The Lovely Bones" has the dark humor of "American Beauty" and the twisted imagination of a psychological thriller. I definitely recommend this book for adults.