Book Summary: The Lovely Bones

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The lovely bones is an excruciatingly boring book, the character development and plot is painstakingly weak, the story revolves around the rape and murder of a teenage girl by the name of Suzie salmon. The book tries to show the effects of the main character Suzie’s death and attempts to make the reader feel empathetic, personally I didn’t feel any emotions towards the characters, Suzie’s father Jack was a boring generic character and her mother Abigail literally served no other purpose than to further the tension and start a sub plot. The movie was cast poorly and though some scenes were very aesthetically pleasing they lacked substance and more often I felt bored, I found the actors to be mediocre at best. For these reasons I believe that …show more content…

The father is a basic obsessed father who jumps into danger to find the killer, his actions are predictable and annoying at times, this makes me lose all fascination with the character to the point where I didn’t even like the parts he was in. the mother is a slightly better character, but only for the fact that she had a whole subplot made her more interesting, the whole subplot was useless though, it wouldn’t change the story all that much if it didn’t happen. Lindsey was one of if not the most important character in the novel and book, her character development seemed to be the best and her character was at least semi likable, the scenes she was in seemed to be the most impactful, adding the most plot development and intensity. Buckley had a bigger role in the book but it seemed his character was also too useless to the movie cut out a lot of his scenes, he seemed like a dull, character with next to no character development, just like a lot of characters.
Mr Harvey was the antagonist of the novel and book, his character was one of the most developed and less 2 dimensional. He had a lot of backstory that didn’t need to be told, at times the backstory seemed to try to make you feel bad for him, I personally found myself conflicted as the backstory and actions didn’t seem that of a child rapist, murderer who lives next door, until closer to the end of the story where

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