The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold

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I have to say that this book left me feeling really quite horrifically sick. It was recommended to me by Rach who said it was good. In many ways she was right- it was kind of compelling- you wanted to know how the story ended.. but I found myself feeling increasingly voyeuristic lapping up page after page about a dead teenager. I read that Sebold has written another book about her rape at uni.. I just felt like we were being given a little too much insight into her traumam in this book.. made me want to go take a bath after reading..

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rach said…
I found it more a story about the family and how they coped with life after Suzie's murder, rather than reading about the murder itself. True, it does have that "car crash TV" element to it where you know you shouldn't want to know any more but something makes you keep reading but for me, the family's story of survival was more prominent than that.
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