Title: The Lovely Bones
Product review: As everyone else on this site, I read this book with very high hopes. It started well -and I was intrigued by the voice and character of Susie Salmon. The idea for the book is also brilliant: the voice of a victim. But after the first chapter or so, the book wanders off into the lives of undeveloped, uninteresting characters. The people are similar to television actors: very rote, predictable and identified through their sex lives. I was interested in Susie and began to feel she was being set aside so the novel could develop the romantic/sexual involvements of everyone else. This is what turned a rather bold idea into a mediocre meandering. Which is sad, because a very brave idea becomes just another formula novel of sex being the only thing really interesting to anybody. I don't know about other readers, but picking up a novel supposedly focused on the rape and murder of a child hardly sets the proper mood for "romance". Extremely disappointing.
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