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A review by booksinthefreezersteph
The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo
3.0
I picked this up because I wanted to read the lowest-rated books on my Goodreads To-Read list. The Fall of Lisa Bellow sits at around the 3.0 mark. That's honestly where I'm putting it. It wasn't bad by any means, just not extraordinary.
This examines the trauma of a suburban family after their daughter Meredith is at a hold-up in a local sandwich shop where one of her classmates gets abducted. Lisa Bellow is the popular girl in school, and she has been mean to Meredith on several occasions. Meredith has complicated feelings about being the last person to see her alive, along with some kind of survivor's guilt.
There were chapters where Meredith pretends that Lisa is okay, and eventually she imagines what would have happened if she would've been abducted as well. These were enjoyable, but I would've liked some commentary on this dream. It seemed so separate from the rest of the story. The rest of the family wasn't communicating. Nothing got resolved. Not that it needed to, but the story didn't seem like it had an ending.
This examines the trauma of a suburban family after their daughter Meredith is at a hold-up in a local sandwich shop where one of her classmates gets abducted. Lisa Bellow is the popular girl in school, and she has been mean to Meredith on several occasions. Meredith has complicated feelings about being the last person to see her alive, along with some kind of survivor's guilt.
There were chapters where Meredith pretends that Lisa is okay, and eventually she imagines what would have happened if she would've been abducted as well. These were enjoyable, but I would've liked some commentary on this dream. It seemed so separate from the rest of the story. The rest of the family wasn't communicating. Nothing got resolved. Not that it needed to, but the story didn't seem like it had an ending.