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A review by daisyheadmaesie
The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo
3.0
Received from GoodReads Giveaways!
3 mini vans out of 5
Thank you to Simon & Schuster Canada for this ARC. I’m finally getting to reading it now, so here are my honest thoughts:
While the middle of this book was quite good, exploring the many stages of grief and the frustrations of teenagehood, this story could’ve been done in under 300 pages and been twice as enjoyable. OR incorporated more POVs to limit redundancy.
The strained mother-daughter and husband-wife relationships were at times agonizing in all the wrong ways. Two-thirds in, I’d had enough of the worry wart mother who lashes out on everyone else rather than getting the help she needs.
This book touches on some very profound themes, and in the end I’m glad I was exposed to them. I did enjoy the daughter Meredith’s POV a lot and related to her on many levels. I really loved Evan’s story arc. If it had been Meredith and Colleen Bellow’s POVs, I may have been able to rate this higher. I feel like Lisa’s mom was a far more intriguing and complex character than Claire.
Conclusion: Lukewarm at best.
3 mini vans out of 5
Thank you to Simon & Schuster Canada for this ARC. I’m finally getting to reading it now, so here are my honest thoughts:
While the middle of this book was quite good, exploring the many stages of grief and the frustrations of teenagehood, this story could’ve been done in under 300 pages and been twice as enjoyable. OR incorporated more POVs to limit redundancy.
The strained mother-daughter and husband-wife relationships were at times agonizing in all the wrong ways. Two-thirds in, I’d had enough of the worry wart mother who lashes out on everyone else rather than getting the help she needs.
This book touches on some very profound themes, and in the end I’m glad I was exposed to them. I did enjoy the daughter Meredith’s POV a lot and related to her on many levels. I really loved Evan’s story arc. If it had been Meredith and Colleen Bellow’s POVs, I may have been able to rate this higher. I feel like Lisa’s mom was a far more intriguing and complex character than Claire.
Conclusion: Lukewarm at best.