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Stiletto Safari (2012)

by Kate Metz(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1467959049 (ISBN13: 9781467959049)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Createspace

review 1: Fluffy, light, very chicky. Fast read with a great escapist premise. Zara Hamilton lives out the fantasy of many large firm lawyers when her firm puts her on sabbatical and she opts (though with a stunning lack of conviction) to spend six months volunteering in Africa. The volunteer program she enters sends her to Namibia, to work first as a teacher and dorm mistress at a school, and then at a wildlife rehab center. Zara is young and very immature. She's fresh off a broken engagement (that bothers her minimally) when she arrives in Africa, and plunges into a fling with an accomplished wildlife biologist, who is of course rich and good looking. There's a clever meet cute involving hair washing at a school yard water pump. I wanted more about the work in the school and the... more field, and far less grumbling about how much Zara wanted to go home and how she wasn't getting to wear her designer clothes. The romantic ended is cute, expected and appropriate for the genre, but the career ending strains credulity. If you're poolside and just along for the ride, this shouldn't be an issue. The world needs more chick lit that takes place outside London and NY and on this score, the author delivers.The editing kept me from bumping this up a star. too much telling, even for a fast read. E.g., In one case, the narrator makes reference to someone telling funny stories, but doesn't share the funny story. Good editors should catch that kind of thing. I wish the author and her editor had taken a ruthless pass through the book and purged most of the exclamation points, sentences beginning with participle phrases, and surplus adverbs prior to publication.
review 2: Let me start off by saying that usually when you read/see people that are very materialistic, who then go off (like with volunteering) to some place where 95% of the people basically have nothing....that person usually is different by the end. But not in this story. Zara was just as materialistic in the beginning as she was by the end. Needless to say, this was an alright read. I wasn't really a fan of Zara whatsoever though. I did like the doctor guy (sorry I forgot his name).Like always with my reviews I have a few comments/questions:1. I would love to have known how much money Zara had to where she could afford to go without work for 6 months. It sort of seemed like any money she'd be making as a lawyer she would be spending on clothes and whatnot.2. So after Zara wakes up, after her night of drinking, she mentions that she's a germaphobe. This is while she's picking up her dirty clothes off the floor as if they're covered in, I don't know what, something really gross. I find that funny later on when she decides to go to Africa, to maybe help with sick people and all. 3. Something question here: How did Zara not know about hair weaves? I'm a hermit (haha) and know about them. That didn't make sense to me. Yet later on she comments about hypochondria and knows what that is? 4. When everyone (volunteers) are gathered around the campfire chatting and hanging out...Sam tells Zara that he didn't know she already knew Hamish. Yet the story she tells is the one of Hamish catching her washing her hair in the tap, not when they first meet at JoJos.5. At one point Zara is reading emails and comes across the first email sent by Nick. Why in the world did she think it was his fault that she was in Africa? Um hello....since she's got lots of $$ she could have gone somewhere else. I understand she's not that excited at first about everything going on but still. 6. While Zara is teaching she decides to have an exercise class for the kids. Why? Are all the kids like skin and bones basically? How would forcing them to exercise help out? It's like they would be burning extra calories that bodies would probably need. 7. When Zara comes up with the school uniform idea, what would a "too Versace" one look like? It's a uniform! In the end she wants something that the kids can wear during the colder weather too....yeah, a skirt is perfect for the cold weather!8. Like I said above, I'm not a fan of Zara. Doesn't realize that the kids will miss her when she leaves. Doesn't realize at that Hamish likes her. Why else would he be spending so much time with her? Assumes that since Hamish and Sasha 'go way back' means that they're dating. She acts stupid/clueless way too much for my taste.9. Zara doesn't want to seem too desperate on her first date with Hamish. Okay...BUT why was it that when she ran into him in the laundry room, she was all eager to have sex with him right then?10. When Zara gets Nick's 2nd email, she's still not wanting to talk to him. I forgot what the message was but it basically said something along the lines of, the message was sent to the wrong person. She had to have just typed the message, yet how would he believe that? He'd be able to see who sent the message to him.11. Hamish tells Zara that he 'has to' take Sasha around. How is that possible? Obviously Sasha wants to get back with him but still. She's a model, doing a shoot for Vogue...what do either have to do with him? He could have just swapped with Sam.12. Zara's disguise....ridiculous. Of course she didn't want anyone to realize it was her but seriously? Either way she'd be drawing attention to herself. Very stupid. It's like the author just pick random pieces of clothing and all for her. 13. It is possible to delete stuff off the internet. Like with Zara's emails. NOT!! Once something is loaded onto the internet, it's there forever! 14. Okay so Zara is at a club with Kelly and Sasha. The whole time Sasha is blowing smoke into Zara's face. Of course the sensible thing to do is to just sit there. Don't beat the crap out of Sasha or anything. Nope. It's best just to keep her mouth shut. 15. I don't remember Zara saying anything in her emails about the company she works for. So why would she had to quit....before she was fired? 16. Earthwatch. So apparently that job and her lawyer job, she'd be getting around the same amount of money. Really?! Of course the company just happens to be in London....where Hamish is.17. How was it possible that it wasn't until the end of the story that she realized Sasha knew her and Hamish were dating? Does her brain only randomly work? And not that great to begin with. haha18. Last question...why did she think that Hamish broke up with her because of her spying on him and Sasha? Again is this a brain/mental issue? Was this an unknown reason for all her stupidity throughout the story? In the end, I gave 3 stars. There's wasn't anything 'Wow!' about this story. I'm not really sure how this story got such good reviews?! less

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