Fell Down

Fell #3

by M.E. Kerr

Fell returns to investigate the cause of the death of Dib, his best friend, an investigation that involves the demented murderous dummy of a ventriloquist and the diary of a man who had disappeared twenty years earlier. Reprint.

Genres: Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery, Teen

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

M. E. Kerr was born Marijane Meaker in Auburn, New York. Her interest in writing began with her father, who loved to read, and her mother, who loved to tell stories of neighborhood gossip. Unable to find an agent to represent her work, Meaker became her own agent, and wrote articles and books under a series of pseudonyms: Vin Packer, Ann Aldrich, Laura Winston, M.E. Kerr, and Mary James. As M.E. Kerr, Meaker has produced over twenty novels for young adults and won multiple awards, including the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her lifetime contribution to young adult literature.

Reviews

[Kathleen]

Confusing.

[Lawrence FitzGerald]

Everything has become a bit more clear. The entire series has been about hidden identities, identities of chance (the sevens). Hidden identities tend to be corrosive and Marijane Meaker should know as she lived most of her life with a hidden identity. (Fell #3 has a character which changes sexual identity and then changes back. Meaker name drops the author James Triptree, Jr. a woman of complex sexual orientation.)

Yes, sexual orientation can be (emphatically has been) a hidden identity, but it is a theme of much wider application and appeal. All of us hide some piece of ourselves from the disapproving. Why aren't you married yet? Why are you wasting your time on that? How can you stand those people? Yeah, we've all been there. Marijane Meaker was there too.

[Ermy]

A great way to finish the series. Definitely made a lot of sense if you read between the lines. Despite the fact that it practically explained everything from the whole series in a compressed version,

If you do not read the whole series in the exact order it was written within days of reading each book, a reader can easily be confused. The format of this book can be a major challenge plus the attempted subtlety of the theme only ends up confusing the readers.

simply put: Not as self-explanatory as it appears. Great book non-the-less

[Greg Kerestan]

What the hell was that? M. E. Kerr's final Fell novel goes in a weird, nightmarish psychosexual direction with this tale of love triangles, tangled timelines and ventriloquist dummies with inherent personalities of their own. Props to Kerr for trying something different in this teen noir series, but MAN does this go in some truly odd directions. Imagine a mix of Riverdale and the novels of Ellen Raskin, and you're basically there.

[Carly Hawn]

Abandoned: I know I didn't get very far into this book, but I think I got through enough. When I read the summary or this book, I thought it would be cool, as my favorite genre is horror. I was wrong. Throughout the first few chapters, nothing happened. It was boring and confusing, and I wasn't sure what to think. Overall, this just isn't a book I'd want to read, so I abandoned it.

[Mario]

stuff was terrible don't recommend.

[Roderick]

What was the point of this? No romance or any kind of emotional depth at all: just an odd & somewhat sad story.

[Ryan]

it was an ok book.But it got kinda boring in the middle so to be completly honest i wouldnt read this book again.Because i really didnt care for the ending.And keats foun a body on stage which i think if you killed someone.You wouldnt just leave a body laying there for the whole world to see would you?

[Melanie Schweiger]

This book is the last of a series...I think. It still left me wanting more of the story.

[Ellen Thielen]

A good resolution to the first two books....but tried too hard to be intellectual....

[Suzanne Dix]

I was glad to complete the trilogy but books 2 & 3 were not nearly as good as 1. Frankly the ending left me confused.