If you only see the movie, you don't know what really happened in the book. As if to say, the movie wasn't that great compared to the book. First of all, there are so many missing people in the film. When Susie went to heaven, she met Franny, who is in her mid-forties and takes responsibility for Susie in heaven and she was "welcoming counselor". Len Fenerman, is an important character in the book because he is the lead detective on Susie's murder case and believes that he will find the killer. Because Susie's mother is going through a hard time, he understands her feelings, after which he eventually begins a relationship with her. On top of that, he ultimately fails to apprehend Susie's killer and this makes him feel guilty about his decisions. There are more missing people in the film, and the way Susie was killed was also different. In the book, he raped and then killed. However, in the film, she only shows her blood and concludes that she was the one who killed. Furthermore, the relationship between Susie's mother and detective Len Fenerman was only told to us in the book but not in the film version. The acting was really good which makes me cry too, plus the choice of actor and actress was also really good because the character descriptions in the book were similar to the characters in the movies. Ask that you need to preserve the core, if you really want to know the history of the lovely bones, then you should read a