Fletcher Spence is dying for a promotion. And her colleagues are more than happy to oblige.
After three years working seventy-hour weeks as assistant to the most terrifying CEO in the magazine world, Fletcher finally finagled a spot on Cartwright Media’s annual corporate retreat—a famously luxurious week on the Cartwrights’ private island, where promotions are handed out like party favors. And her plan to snag her dream job as a travel magazine photographer was going great...until her boss’s dramatic death reveals his last will and testament: Whoever survives the week will inherit the company.
So now she’s stuck on her billionaire boss’s safari park island, surrounded by wild animals and on the run from coworkers who’ve swapped coffee cups for machetes and briefcases for hunting rifles.
To Fletcher’s dismay, her only ally might be her boss’s insufferably gorgeous son, Waylon Cartwright. Despite their hostile history, Fletcher is at least 80 percent sure he won’t try to kill her this week. Plus, his experience on the island might come in handy while they fend off lions and tigers and...marketing executives? Oh my.
While Fletcher battles her own ambitions and her unexpected attraction to Waylon, her power-hungry, bloodthirsty colleagues will do anything to stop them from escaping with their lives. Everyone knows the media industry is cutthroat, but in this safari party, it’s never been more true. (Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads.)
I didn’t read the synopsis before reading Safari Murder Party, so I had no clue as to what might be in store for Fletcher. One minute, she’s fighting for her job and a much-needed promotion. The next, she was fighting for her life in some of the craziest ways imaginable.
Initially, Fletcher wasn’t meant to be part of the annual corporate retreat. She’s seen as Cartwright’s beck and call girl, not someone who would ever be considered for a job that doesn’t include doing anything and everything for one the meanest bosses to ever exist on the page–right up there with Miranda Priestley. She knows how everyone views her, her boss included, so she makes a last-minute decision to force her way into the retreat.
It could end up being the very choice that could get her killed, and that’s no exaggeration. The private island becomes a free for all, potential death around every corner. All Fletcher has is her wits and her astounding ability to know the tiny minutiae details about her coworkers, with plenty of scenes lending into close calls and self-preservation. It was action packed and exciting! I had no idea what would happen for her, or for her coworkers. Much like Fletcher’s internal dialogue, I often wondered if the chaos was really happening. Did her boss seriously orchestrate a Hunger Games-like death match until the one last standing gets the reward?
Despite the fiction, it felt real. Fletcher encounters her coworkers gone wild, and the actual wild, with monkeys and tigers and everything in between. Waylon, the one man she loathes but secretly lusts for, becomes her go-to, which only further proves just how insane her world has become. Does he really mean it when he says he wants to see her survive, or is he only bringing her along until the end is near? And, maybe Fletcher has some tricks up her own sleeves, too. Safari Murder Party was the most insanely wild reading experience and I was there for it, every step of the way! A true five-star experience!
Thanks to Berkley for the book in exchange for an honest review.
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