Title: Promising, but Disappointing
Product review: The Lovely Bones is a very uneven work. At times touching and memorable, at times monotonous, at times pedestrian, the prose of Ms. Sebold needs more polishing before it can be called great. Some of the plot turns are silly and forced, and the effect on the reader is one of annoyance. This would have made a superb first draft. I hardly know how to account for this book's phenomenal success; perhaps, as in the title of her first book, Ms. Sebold got "lucky."
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