Review: Find Her

My Thoughts On: Find Her by Lisa Gardner

Format: Audiobook

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Released: February 9, 2016

Lisa Gardner has done it again. She is good at what she does. I have read a few of her books before, and this one does not disappoint. After reading Find Her, I remembered why I liked her books. This book reads like a Criminal Minds episode, and I am a fan of Criminal Minds, especially when Gideon leaves the show (he irked me). Anyway, back to Find Her…this is definitely a compelling and mind boggling mystery until the end. Not only is this story candy for the literary mystery palate, but it will also be like music to the ears since it is well narrated by Kirsten Potter.

This is one of those books that hook you in from the beginning and doesn’t let go until the very end; even then you will want to know what happens to Flora and her mom. Gardner starts off with a girl, who is locked in a wooden box, telling her story. If this doesn’t hook a reader in, then surely, nothing will. I could not stop listening to this book until I found out who the girl was, how she ended up in the box, why she ended up there, and if she ever got out, how she got out, and what happened after she got out. To get the answers to all of these questions, I had to keep on reading/listening until the very end because Gardner is a master of plot twists. Her book is more like a thrilling and mysterious roller coaster ride than anything else. You might think you know where the story is going, but you soon find out that you don’t, when something unexpected and unexplained happens. After that, you might think that you are once again getting your bearings and you know what’s gonna happen, but something completely different happens.

“I don’t want to survive anymore; I want to live.”

This is a story about a girl gone missing while on spring break in Florida. Her family is devastated because they don’t know where she is or what has happened to her. They are left in the dark without a clue as to what happened to their “happy girl.” Now they have to deal with the endless reporters who are hungry for any little detail, the unsympathetic investigators, and the “victim’s advocates,” who keep asking question after question. They do what they can to try to find her, but nothing is known…until they eventually receive a postcard in the mail.

“No one wants to be a monster and yet, here we are.”

This girl endures beatings, sexual abuse, mental, and emotional abuse. She is broken and stripped down to nothing; she doesn’t even remember her name, but she survives. She endures 472 days of horror with her captor and survived to see her mother again. Now that she is free, her past haunts her. Flora has become obsessed with other missing person’s cases and with self-defense. Because of her obsessions, Flora ends up naked, with her hands zip-tied in a garage next to a charred body. Sergeant Detective Warren isn’t very happy about the situation and thinks of Flora as a suspect…until Flora ends up missing again after she had been left at home to recover from her ordeal. With one missing girl already and now Flora missing, it’s a race against the clock, and the odds, to discover who the suspect is and to find these girls alive, if they’re still alive.

If you’re into mysteries, you should give this one a try and let us know what you think.

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