Advantages: Easy escapism, completely readable Disadvantages: Not her best, pace of book wasn't brilliant, predictable ending
Those who have never read a Danielle Steel novel often have preconceptions about what is going to be written on the pages of her books. Instead of perceiving her stories as escapism, they see them as generic and old-fashioned chick-lit. But, let's be hone ...
Advantages: Unique premise, excellent narration Disadvantages: Mawkishly over-sentimental, unrealistic and a bit soppy
Given the glut of reviews on ‘The Lovely Bones’, it seems that this is a very popular novel. Indeed, this book is one of the biggest selling books of the past twenty years on both sides of the Atlantic. It has made Alice Sebold into one of the most promin ...
Advantages: A beautifully-written, elegantly constructed book. Disadvantages: Sentimental in places.
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is raped and murdered in a cornfield on her way home from school. Most of her body is never found but there is sufficient evidence for her family – mother, father, brother and sister – to accept that she is dead. Her murde ...
Advantages: An amazing book which evokes so much emotion in the reader. Disadvantages: May be a little disturbing for some readers in the beginning.
The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold
Introduction
I saw a trailer on TV a couple of weeks ago for the film which is based on this book, and when my mum told me it was a brilliant book, I couldn’t help myself from going online and buying it from Amazon ...
With it getting towards the summer, I am always on the look out for a new book to read and almost always I will opt for something in the chick lit genre. However, I have heard so many good things about this book the lovely bones which is why I have always ...
