Meghan's Review of "Save Me"

I read this book a few weeks ago before we left for Utah, so I may not remember exactly what I thought about it. The main character is a mother of two kids, an 8 year old and a 9 month old. The 8 year old has a birthmark on her face and therefore gets picked on and made fun of at school. The family moved to this new town so the daughter could start fresh and be at a new school with a no-bullying policy. At the beginning of the book, the mom goes to school to be a lunch mom one day to keep an eye on her daughter. She sees three girls sitting next to her daughter and one puts jelly on her face to make fun of her birthmark. As the daughter runs to the bathroom right next to the kitchen, the bell rings for the kids to go outside for recess. The mom goes over to the three other girls and starts talking to them about how teasing is just like bullying and that they need to be nice. The other lunch mom tells this mom that she shouldn't discipline and goes to tell a teacher outside about this other mom so the only people in the cafeteria are this mom and the three girls. All of a sudden there's a huge explosion in the kitchen and the mom gets knocked out. When she comes to there is fire and smoke and she realizes the kitchen just had an explosion. Two of the three girls are right next to her and the other one is running outside. The mom realizes her daughter is still in the bathroom right next to the kitchen that just exploded and has to decide whether she will run to her daughter, leaving these two girls there or if she'll take these two girls outside and leave her daughter. I don't think I'm giving anything away when I tell you what she did since this all happens in the first few chapters of the book. She ends up taking the two girls to the cafeteria door to a teacher that is ushering other kids outside and then runs back to the bathroom and breaks in to get her daughter out. They get her to the hospital and she's fine, but then the mom finds out that the girl who put jelly on her face ran back into the cafeteria and is now being rushed to the hospital in a coma. So, basically this story is about how this mom deals with how the other moms treat her thinking that she left this other girl to save her daughter. It's actually kind of infuriating and I wonder if people would really respond that way. The other moms really attack this mom for saving her daughter and really make it impossible for her to go anywhere, since they start yelling at her the second they see her. The story takes an interesting turn when the main character finds out there are factors to the explosion at this new school that seem like someone wanted to have it explode. Then it turns into kind of a murder mystery and gets a little silly. It was kind of interesting and an easy read, but it was a little unrealistic and the story got a little too complex about why the murderer wanted to cause the explosion. So, while I enjoyed it for what it was, I would probably only give it 2 1/2 stars since there are better books out there. Did I confuse everyone with my jumbled thoughts?