First and foremost I have to say I've never been more
emotionally invested in a story. FIND HER crept into my
heart and consciousness and refused to leave. This book is
so well written with obvious attention to details and
sequences that the author, Lisa Gardner, deserves
plaudits for a job very well done. I've read lots of crime
novels, but FIND HER is gritty and scarily plausible, and
that's what makes it attention-grabbing.
FIND HER is a story about surviving. Lisa Gardner brings us
into the dark world of surviving an inhumane event
and trying to find light again. Four hundred and seventy
two days. Can you even begin to rationally understand how
long that is? Four hundred and seventy two days in a dark
prison designed by a deranged sociopath. Lisa Gardner
challenges us to take a good look at the predator. The
predator doesn't take any blame for the way he is. No he
did not ask to be born a monster—it just is. Watch out
normal people living normal lives—there "are" monsters
out there. Flora Dane knew that—from firsthand experience. Flora had
a system—she chanted a litany of questions to herself:
are you tired, hungry, cold—then answering them with a
resounding NO—then you're okay.
What would you do to survive? Why do some succumb and other
survive? Is it strength, intelligence or perhaps pure will
even in the face of evil and desperation? FIND HER is a
look into the mind of a victim—a survivor. And for Flora
Dane surviving is not a destination but a journey
brilliantly conceived by Lisa Gardner.
FIND HER is a scary, insightful and brilliant work of
psychological drama. For the most part we are looking
through the eyes of the victim as she manages the daily
horrors through a system she develops. Flora isn't sure
she will survive her kidnapping even though her
kidnapper keeps her for 472 days. Flora isn't sure she
wants to survive another day. But there is an inner
strength and intelligence, which somehow is keeping her
going. An innate cunning not unlike the fox on her mother's
farm.
You can read the publishers blurb and get a snapshot of the
storyline of FIND HER. I purposely did not include very
much plot which page-by-page just gets better. This is a
book you will have to read on your own, and at the end thank
me for being vague. FIND HER by Lisa Gardner is the one
crime novel that is a must read. FIND HER is the book
everyone is going to be talking about. I guarantee it.
Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure.
Flora Dane is a survivor.
Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she’s become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who’ve never made it home.
Flora Dane is reckless.
. . . or is she? When Boston detective D. D. Warren is called to the scene of a crime—a dead man and the bound, naked woman who killed him—she learns that Flora has tangled with three other suspects since her return to society. Is Flora a victim or a vigilante? And with her firsthand knowledge of criminal behavior, could she hold the key to rescuing a missing college student whose abduction has rocked Boston? When Flora herself disappears, D.D. realizes a far more sinister predator is out there. One who’s determined that this time, Flora Dane will never escape. And now it is all up to D. D. Warren to find her.
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