Augerto Manci Manci itibaren Ansonia 71000, Dominican Republic
Book #35 of 2009 Book #3 of the "Daughters of the Glen" series. This is what happens when you do nothing but read all day... you finish another book! This one was most definately connected to the previous two... There was much more than the occasional wandering characters milling about. (That is how I picture them, characters that wander to another book, popping in and say hello! Sorta like Inkheart) Secondary characters from both of the previous two books became main characters in the third. Also, the plot took the reader back to 13th century Scotland for a brief time. Another good book, although I think the second is still my favorite.
The Lovely Bones is a story told through Susie Salmon about her murder. The story starts with her and everyday life, moving on to the murder and the rest of the book follows Susie's family and friends and seeing how they are dealing with her death. Susie wants to reach her family but obviously she can't, she sometimes watches her murderer, hoping he will get caught. I had watched the movie first and really liked it, it was so sad and disturbing I thought the book would be just the same. It had the same sadness obviously with the main storyline to do with murder but a few things were different, I liked how that the story carried on for longer than in the movie, you got to hear about Lindsey, Susie's younger sister getting married, graduating and so on which I liked to know what happened later on. I always felt that I wish something worse had happened to George Harvey after what he did not only to Susie but all those other women and girls but he still got a bad ending. The main character I mainly felt sorry for other than Susie was her father, her mother seemed to bottle it up and not want to talk about her or have anything to do with her but her father was distraught, he didn't know what to do with himself and he even suspected George Harvey but no-one listened. It was also interesting to know more about Lindsey in the film it was as if she wasn't as bothered about Susie's death but in the book you find out what she was doing, she was bottling it all up, keeping it in and taking deep breaths to be strong for everyone. In the shower was the only place she could cry and deal with her grief. A great story, really sad, a story of how one girls murder can affect so many people not just in the moment but for years later.
I thought it was slightly interesting, but most of the advice was pretty obvious. I don't really think this book would have gotten published if she wasn't a celebrity.
Not my favorite of her books, but it fits the classic Heyer shpeel of very manly man gets feisty girl after a long drawn out battle of wits.