Darft of Reading Response

The Lovely Bones is a great book. I like how Alice Sebold puts detail into all of the commotion in the book. She is a great writer, and has artistic skill, because it is like when reading the book, you can almost visualize it as a movie, while reading it. I like the Lovely Bones because it is a mixture of genres. It is a mixture of suspense, horror, (has a poetic touch), romance, etc. This book expresses how one life, can affect everyone around something, that used to be.

When reading the book The Lovely Bones, just from the first page you can feel the suspense come in as the beginning sentences state, “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was 14 when I was murdered on December 6^th, 1971.” I like how the author structured this because she just came right out with the point, instead of the reader having to wait for what the topic of the book was.

The Lovely Bones also has a mood of mystery throughout the whole book, since Susie’s death has affected everybody, her father being most affected by it. The mystery lingers with every page wondering when Mr. Harvey will be caught, how her mother’s love will turn into rage, when her father will come to realization that she is gone, and nothing can bring her back, when Buckley will crack, when Len Fernerman will solve the gruesome murder, and when Susie will give up on hoping to be alive once again.