Let’s take a look at the brand new mystery One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner for Book Beginnings on Fridays.
Book Beginnings is a fun meme hosted by Rose City Reader blog. To participate, share the first sentence or so of a novel you are reading and your thoughts about it. When you are finished, add your URL to the Book Beginnings page linked above. Hope to see you there!
One Step Too Far* by Lisa Gardner
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Summary: Frankie Elkin is a regular woman with one superpower: she can find people who are missing. In this case, she joins a party looking for a young man who disappeared in the wilderness five years before. They are going to hike deep into the forest to one spot that has never been searched because it so remote. A novice to hiking and camping, Frankie has to be careful or she might just be the one who ends up missing .
Note: Before She Disappeared is the first in this series (previous post).
First Sentence:
The first three men came stumbling into town shortly after ten A.M., babbling of dark shapes and eerie screams and their missing buddy Scott and their other buddy Tim, who set out from their campsite before dawn to get help.
56
The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice. The premise is simple. Turn to page 56 in the book and pick a quote.
“Your idea of self-defense in an urban environment is a whistle? Are you trying to die?”
The first part, which happened five years prior, was in past tense. This part, with Frankie as the narrator, is in present tense.
I follow Lisa Gardner on Instagram and she spends a lot of time hiking. Her first hand experience gives a strong sense of reality to the story.
What do you think? Do you like books written in the present tense? Are you a fan of Lisa Gardner?
