The Lovely Bones Blog 3
What components does your book have to make it a page-turner? Or was this book a little slow to get started? Was there a point where you just couldn't put it down? Or did you struggle getting through it? Please provide examples.
Immediately this book was a page turner from the start as they started right away with her murder and her rape and you and Susie are the only ones who know who it is. I really read a lot right away but then it was getting very boring in the middle and sometimes I would get mad because they where so close to catching her murder and then they just left. In the end it was still a little boring though as things really were not happening other then the mom coming back which was good but it would've been a better ending if they had found Susie. I was excited for this book because the beginning was so good I wanted the entire book to be like that.
ReplyDeleteThis book was definitely a page turner for me. The first chapter described her killer and her rape in a detail that made me feel for Susie. I got to see exactly what happened to her and how she was killed. In the middle of the book it got a little slow because it was confusing, the reader got to see how Susie saw everything in heaven and that made it confusing to know if she was talking about her life in heaven and when she was talking about the Earth. I feel like some parts of the story didn't contribute that much to the story. The end did pick up again when Susie was learning what she had to do in heaven and when she went to Earth in Ruth's body. I liked the ending because her family learned a lot about how to deal with her death.
ReplyDeleteThe components that make this book a page turner is that at first, nobody knows who the killer is besides Susie. Seeing Susie's dad being convinced it was George made me want to keep reading because it was frustrating to see no one listening to him. The beginning of the story was when I wanted to keep reading the most. In the middle and towards the end was when the story was hard to get through. Throughout the middle of the story, we just see the basic things going on in her family and friends lives. The fact that they couldn't find Susie's murderer also was kind of disappointing even though he does end up dying in the end.
ReplyDeleteThe elements that made this book a page turner was that the author didn't build up any suspense at all they just jumped straight into Susie's murder. I could not put it down for the first 20-30ish pages. I did find it hard to get threw towards the middle and end. I just felt that the book was a little confusing at times because they would change perspectives all the time in the middle of chapters and i wouldn't know who was talking. I also just felt that it would be boring then exciting and you would wonder where this section was going. I also felt it was dragged out too far and it didn't have to be as long as it was because in the end they didn't even ever catch Susie's killer so all of the boring parts that you felt were leading up to her killers arrest felt like a waste.
ReplyDeleteThe elements to make The Lovely Bones a page turner is to have a good topic that it continues through the book and that the author does not build suspense until the middle of the book or at the beginning of the book. The Lovely Bones jumped right in, when Susie was raped and then murdered on the first 5 pages. I could not put the book down after the first 5 chapters of the book because it was so good but when I got to the middle of the book I just wanted to throw it away because it was just rambling about nonsense. To me the book was extremely confusing because it kept jumping from Susie to her sister, to her dad, to who murdered her, to back to Susie. It was hard to focus on who was talking at that time and then when it jumps from person to person it just gets confusing. When reading the book it felt boring and then it gets exciting to boring again and then repeat until the end of the book. I feel like the book just dragged out to the point where there was a point where it could of ended. At the end of the book they didn't even catch Susie's killer he just died by an icicle which was not a good spot to end the book. The boring parts was leading up to the part where they would find out who Susie's murdered was but it never was because in the exciting parts they never even caught the murderer they just let him die from the icicle.
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