Jack is excited to be spending the day with his daughter Lily, especially because since his divorce his ex-wife moved thousands of miles away from his coffee plantation in Tanzania.
Lily is grilling him to make sure that he records her recital. His eight-year-old daughter loves to replay her dance for him and his grandmother making them vote on her performance. Making them revote over and over until she receives the 10s she is looking for.
After delivering her to the recital hall located in the local mall he realizes that Lily is still holding the pink balloons and heads back to the parking lot to leave them in the car. As he turns back to return inside he hears the crack of machine guns and fights the outgoing crowd in order to get to his daughter.
Then he sees a toddler all alone and his pregnant mother on the ground begging for help. He is torn. He needs to get to his daughter, but he can't leave this woman and child to be further injured or worse. Just as he turns to run back into the mall there is an explosion. A bomb just went off decimating the mall. Helping this mom and child cost his daughter's life.
Rodell was signing her name to purchase her first home. Never staying in one place as a child she just wanted a place to call home. She is sitting in a local bar celebrating when a newsflash crosses the large TV over the bar. Then she starts frantically looking for her phone because her sister is in that town.
She finds her phone and realizes that she missed a call from her sister and was devastated when she listened to the message. Her sister was at the mall under fire and was telling her that in case she didn't make it how much she loved her and their parents.
In the coming days, all she could find out was that there had been a car bomb. When she finally decided to go through her sister's belongings she found the reason she had been in Tanzania. She traveled the Serangeti to rescue disadvantaged children and get them to an orphanage.
Rodel was on break from teaching and grabbed her sister's map covered in notes, packed her bags and left England to find the children listed on her sisters notes and get them to safety.
I loved this book! It is very well written and the characters are fully developed and relatable. This book is narrated by Zachary Webber & Megan Tusing and they are perfect in portraying the horror and emotions of this story.
The narration was done differently than other audiobooks wherein Jack's (Zachary Webber) POV is the first and last chapters of the story and Rodel's (Megan Tusing) POV is the major POV in the storyline.
This book is action packed and full of danger and suspense from page one. Jack is a bitter angry man full of self hate and guilt that he put someone else before his daughter and he had no interest in helping Rodel on her mission to rescue children that were being kidnapped and killed because of superstition.
This book is full of twists and the ending is both heartbreaking but it gives answers to a mystery, but then there is a "what if" moment although you know in your heart its not to be.
This is the first time reading Leylah Attar and I was totally enthralled with this storyline. Even through their mutual loses their journey of danger frees them from the past. Zachary Webber & Megan Tusing were perfect narrators. Zachary with his sexy voice and Megan with her English accent.
Highly recommend this book, author and narrators! This storyline is movie worthy and I can't wait to read more by Leylah Attar in the future!
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