Personal Opinion of Lovely Bones

It was Susie’s insight from heaven that made me love reading this novel, since it was a different approach to a novel. She sees how her murderer lives, and how her family coped without her. But it's watching her family and friends as they begin to heal where the heart of the story lies. She's there when her father realizes that the immortality that should have come with bearing three children was not as assured as he thought; and he reacts by pouring his love into the living. Since Susie was only 14 years old, I expected another kind of tone to this novel. But Susie Salmon is not sad, angry, or bitter. Instead she is a mix of curiosity and hope about the people still on Earth. The Lovely Bones is about Susie watching her family and friends heal and finding their way back to being connected with one another. It is about restoration of a family after it is devastated.