There are always those books that touch us in many ways. They change in a ways that we thought were impossible. It's so bizarre how a novel can literally change who you are. For me that book is The Lovely Bones written by Alice Sebold. It is a story about a young girl who is raped and killed by someone she knows and throughout the entire novel we see her old life through her eyes and the hardships that her family endures.

As an individual I tend to be optimistic in a way and trust a lot of what people say because I believe that everyone has it in them to be honest. I realized during this novel that this is one of my biggest faults. I invest too much trust into people and a lot of times I end up being deceived and in away, naïve...