I first saw the film "The Lovely Bones", which I - except for some schmaltzy points - really good place. Because I think most of the books much better than the films, I had correspondingly high expectations for this book. I was bitterly disappointed, unfortunately. As in the film as in the book from the beginning it is clear who the murderer is, the plot focuses on the fruitless search for the perpetrator (the neighbors) and how the people of Susie Salmon environment deal with her death - and here it missed the author in my opinion, take their readers. What exactly feel father, mother, brother and sister when they lose a family member? What feels a policeman who just do not get the killers to track down? And what feels the murderer, a serial killer who has killed several girls? The story is here on the surface, and portrays more concern loose and disjointed actions that allow all characters appear elusive, boring and superficial. It is not really clear whether the murdered Susie Salmon, from whose perspective the story is told, an insight into the soul and emotions of the other characters has or whether it is their conjectures.
Also "heavens", a twilight zone remains nebulous and vague, so that you as a reader has no clear idea of where it's there now. Even her emotional life skirmishes so then - and leaves a 14-year-old teenager who was murdered in the prime of life, appear bland and untrustworthy. The author does not succeed, storytelling implement Susie's anger and despair and entrain me as a reader. By and large, the story seems trying frantically, stilted and therefore inauthentic. Too bad, because the idea is great - only the author somehow simply incapable.
