Title: Admit it: it's overhyped
Product review: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is not a bad book per se, it's just not a good book. The central action revolves around a family trying to heal itself following the murder of one of its daughters.To Sebold's credit, the "heaven" scenes are quite well done (e.g., dogs playing and kids with friends and swingsets) and these, in my opinion, are the most appealing portions of the book.However, this is not enough. The Lovely Bones has the emotional depth of a Judy Blume book, yet somehow has managed to generate enough hype to mask itself in a patina of "serious literature." Hats off to the Publishers, I suppose.
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