Book Review: ‘The Lioness: A Novel’ By Chris Bohjalian

The year is 1964 and Hollywood starlet Katie Barstow is on her honeymoon with her new husband David. They’re in Paris and are going to meet up with her brother and his wife, her agent and publicist, another actor and some others to go on Safari in the Serengeti. Everything is set and they’re having a fun time, looking at the wildlife when they hear shots and suddenly they’re surrounded and at gunpoint. They’re being kidnapped and forced into vehicles and driven away. As they try and make plans to escape and figure out what’s going on, tragedy strikes and not everyone will make it out alive. And when they learn the shocking truth about what exactly is happening, it’s quite a twsit in the story. Author Chris Bohjalian (The Flight Attendant, The Witch) has written another thrilling story that you won’t want to put down. He writes each chapter from a different characters point of view and we learn a lot of each person’s backstory as we read each chapter. A great novel to kickstart your spring reading season.

You can pick up The Lioness in stores on Tuesday, May 10th from Doubleday.