Lisa Scottoline's book is called Save Me, but I wondered who was going to save me from it. It was awful. There were too many characters that needed to be more polished. The story is noble at heart but badly woven together. That is why I give this book one star. I got the book as a gift. That is the only reason I finished it.Update-12-9-18Whoops! I hit four stars but I meant one stars. I fixed it.🇺🇸🦅

For the first three quarters of this book, I loved it. You are riding Rose McKenna's emotional rollercoaster but any mother would. How many times have you volunteered at your child's school? Rose's daughter Melly was born with a port-wine birthmark on her cheek and has been teased and bullied out of her last school and now the harassments has begun all over again at the new Reesburgh Elementary. To see for herself how bad it is between her daughter and the class princess Amanda, Rose decides to

This is the worst book I have ever finished. It is complete rubbish, but that is the catch. The sheer idiocy of it makes it a page turner. Just when you think the author has hit the pinnacle of stupidity, another absurd plot twist takes off and I was left in disbelief at the fact that the story could become any more implausible. However, it is not just the plot that is lacking. The writing itself is enough to earn it the dubious honor of being tagged “rubbish” (I had to add that tag just for thi...

Lunchroom mom Hero. This was a book that keep me on my toes. I read it so fast I could not stop reading. I had to know how it ended. Scottoline is moving to the top of my favorite author list. This is a must read. All the mothers need to read this.

I really wanted to like this book. I finished it in hopes that it would get better but I was disappointed. The premise - that a mother has to make a split second decision about whether to save her own child or someone else's and the consequences of that decision - was interesting and had a lot of potential. Unfortunately, that potential is never realized. The problems? 1 - The dialogue is many times cheesy and unrealistic. I found myself rolling my eyes quite often throughout the entire book. Es...

Excited I was to listen to this book as it was on my TBR list, and I don't have the best access to audio cd's. The premise of the dilemma a mother has when saving her own in a fire and needing to save others, who do you choose first? The first couple of chapters were ok in dealing with this - and I felt the angst in spades from the mean hearted parents that were quick to be judgemental and outright rude after tragic events of a fire. Things got convoluted real fast, improbable. Implausible. This...

This was a really rough read. I love the concept - a mother volunteering at her daughter's school has to make a split second decision whether to save her daughter or save the girl who bullies her daughter. She makes a decision and manages (she thinks) to save both. But Scottoline's execution of the concept just didn't work. To people who weren't there, later events make it appear as though Rose saved her own daughter at the expense of the other girl. Even so, I have a really hard time believing

2.5 stars. Meh. This book started out okay, then slowly went downhill about 75% into it. The whole "whodunit" part of the story could have been a bit more exciting. I ended up skimming the last 50 pages. As soon as Rose morphed into "super sleuth", it becomes a bit unbelievable. Her husband, Leo, was the character I disliked the most. What an unsupportive dolt of a husband. I doubt I'd recommend this to anyone, unless you're a die hard Scottoline fan, which I am not.

Synopsis: Save Me starts off with a suburban mom (Reesburgh, PA), Rose McKenna working as a lunch mother at her daughter's school when suddenly an explosion rips through the school's cafeteria, killing three staff members. She leads to girls to safety before running to rescue her own daughter Melly. After being dubbed by the media as somewhat of a hero, Rose soon learns she might face civil and criminal charges because one of the girls she saved was seriously injured in the fire. The same girls...

I've read all of Lisa Scottoline's novels...she's one of my favorite writers, but Save Me didn't do it for me. I'm so disappointed and can't help but wonder if the book was rushed out in time for Mother's Day as well as for it's bullying theme. The first couple chapters were okay, but I only made it just past page 60 or so, then started skimming pages, then started skimming whole chapters, then just gave up on it. I am not a skimmer, but I was hoping to find something that would convince me to k...

I do not include synopses with my goodreads reviews. Read what the professionals wrote. It's better than my mumbo jumbo.Actual rating: 2.25 stars?I REALLY wanted to like this book. My real rating is probably somewhere around 2.5, but I had to drop it down to 2 for several reasons.First and foremost, I am all for shorter chapters. Books that have 60-page chapters have been proven to be harder to read for most people, and I'm one of them. Shorter chapters make it easier for me to read more ("Oh, i...

The first half of this book was engaging! I am a retired educator and have been a volunteer at my children's schools, and our local playhouse. This novel could give you many ideas to discuss in a book club. Unfortunately for me, the least part of the book left me wanting the book to end quickly. The super mom private eye section felt overdone! Overall a good read.

Scottoline returns with a stand-alone thriller about a super-hero, a mom.When Rose McKenna's daughter is injured in an explosion in the school cafeteria, she has to choose between saving the children in front of her or looking for her daughter. Her decision ultimately impacts how she is viewed by the rest of the town and rumors begin about her.She sets out to find out the cause of the explosion and in the process uncovers a conspiracy by a former CEO of a big company and US senator.A gripping st...

Well I found this to be incredibly disappointing.It started off quite promising; an explosion, who does Rose save? her daughters bully or her daughter? She reaches a compromise and manages to save both (or so she thinks). What she later realises is that that something else happened and one of their lives hangs in the balance.When I started reading this, I was in the mood for the type of moral dilemma type of book this represented to me. Then about 200 pages in it turned into a "murder mystery" a...

I wanted to like this, but I didn't. I didn't really want to finish it, but I did. The beginning of the book however, drew me in. As a mom who volunteers often in the school, it made me pause to consider, what would be the legal ramifications if something tragic happened while you were the parent chaperone? I would have liked that story line to have continued. But the book seemed to be divided into two almost separate parts. In the second half, Rose becomes Nancy Drew, driving all over the tri-s...

I was given this book as a kris kringle/secret santa present this year, by somebody who clearly doesn't know me very well. I have tried to read chick lit before, assuming it would be enjoyable in that vapid, lazy way that playing Bejewelled on my phone and clicking through facebook profiles of friends of friends of friends can be. I picked up a Janet Evanovich (or someone) book in a Johannesburg hostel once, and lay by the pool with it for 10 minutes before giving up in a rage. I should have lea...

It felt like I finished every chapter (and there were at least fifty of them....) with an eye roll accompanied by saying "ugh, this is horrible." Every chapter I debated just abandoning the book, but the thing is I was just too curious to find out what happend (not necessarily because the plot was good.... just because I am so curious and I hate the idea of investing time in a book and not knowing how it ends). About a quarter of the way through the book, I could just sense that I wasn't going t...

This sounded like an interesting premise and it started out promising. After an explosion in the school's cafeteria, lunch mom Rose has a life threatening decision. Does she rescue the two girls who have been bullying her daughter who are right there or does she go find her daughter, Melly, and save her, leaving the two bullies? Rose is able to do both and becomes a hero. But things change very quickly and every resident in the small town turns against Rose and there are threats of legal action....

Sorry to say, but I'm pretty disapointed with Save Me. I was so excited to see it available at my local library that I grabbed it before anyone else could. However, it did not live up to my expectations. In all fairness, the first half of it was good enough to hold my interest. Anyone who has had their good intentions and/or their good character questioned unjustly can empathize with the main character, Rose. She was put in a lose/lose situation with only seconds to think, and everyone else in t...

Mild SpoilersThis book starts off as drama, suddenly makes a detour into murder mystery territory, and ends up being plain silly.Rose McKenna is a mother struggling with a problem her daughter Melly is facing at school. A birthmark on her face is causing her to be teased by Amanda Gigot, the class bully. During lunch one day, when Rose is volunteering as a "Lunch Mom", chaperoning the kids during lunch time, a bullying incident happens and Melly runs off to hide in the toilet. Rose decides to ta...