Rating: 4.5 stars (out of 5)
Genre: historical fiction
Review: When Hollywood's darling, Katie Barstow, marries her childhood friend, she decides to take her 5 closest friends, including her brother and pregnant sister-in-law, along on their honeymoon safari in the Serengeti. But when the party is kidnapped, who is the real target? And how many of them will make it out alive?
The chapters rotate among the kidnapping victims, including one of the safari porters. Each chapter is a small frame, beginning and ending with the current situation, bracketing a brief bit of the character's history. The effect is to steadily ratchet up the tension, while at the same time deepening the reader's connection to the characters.
This is another excellent book from Bohjalian, complete with a twist that I maybe should have seen coming (maybe), but definitely didn't. And for another look at the politics of Central Africa in the same time period, read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, a personal favorite of mine.
FTC Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for this review.
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