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The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian
4.0
It's 1964 and Katie Barstow, a popular Hollywood actress and her new husband take their closest friends on an African safari.
They anticipate their trip to the Serengeti to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see animals and scenery they've never experienced before, instead it's a kidnapping gone wrong as a team of Russian mercenaries herd them into Land Rovers with guns to their heads.
Will they survive?
Why have they been targeted?
Everyone has to depend on themselves and do what they can against their captors as well as the threats from the wild animals around them and the unrelenting heat of the desert.
Told from several perspectives, three women and six men, sharing their own current life and death situation, as well as giving background to their lives that brought them to this trip. Each chapter starts with a short blurb from fan/tabloid magazines that also tie each character to their past.
Like every other Bohjalian book I've read, this is beautifully written and the rich descriptions of Africa and the well developed characters left me breathless more than once.
Quote from the book I love: "We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."
They anticipate their trip to the Serengeti to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see animals and scenery they've never experienced before, instead it's a kidnapping gone wrong as a team of Russian mercenaries herd them into Land Rovers with guns to their heads.
Will they survive?
Why have they been targeted?
Everyone has to depend on themselves and do what they can against their captors as well as the threats from the wild animals around them and the unrelenting heat of the desert.
Told from several perspectives, three women and six men, sharing their own current life and death situation, as well as giving background to their lives that brought them to this trip. Each chapter starts with a short blurb from fan/tabloid magazines that also tie each character to their past.
Like every other Bohjalian book I've read, this is beautifully written and the rich descriptions of Africa and the well developed characters left me breathless more than once.
Quote from the book I love: "We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."