Rwandan Hostage by Christopher Lowery - 3 stars (barely)

[Megalion]

I chose to read this book because the description indicated that the Rwandan Genocide was part of the plot and also that it takes place in South Africa.

I wanted to like this book. But the narrative and the characters were uniformly "formal". No real distinction between them. It lacked any tension or real drama like reading a jr high history text book.

The elements of the plot had good potential. I did get a little cross-eyed keeping track of the players on the villain side.

Which leads to another major issue. There wasn't any indicator that this as a sequel to another book. The author does the standard recap near the beginning so I thought I was fine. Instead, we went back and back again to the previous book and it became irritating because I dislike reading books in a series that can't stand alone if I accidentally don't start with the first. I just looked at the synopsis again. Appears that there's an implication: "faces a new terrifying threat". No other though.

It's entirely possible that others will enjoy this and not have the same impression. I give it a barely passable 3 stars. It did make me want to read all the way through to find out what happened.

Be sure to read The Angolan Clan first which is the first book. Looks like there will be more too.

Thank you to the publisher for providing this free copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.