e-ALC, 10:50:37
Narrated by: Stephanie Bently
Release Date: May 19, 2026
Published by: Books on Tape
Read from: May 15-16, 2026
Stand-alone
Source: PRH Audio App (I received this ALC free from the publisher and their app. I also received this as an ARC from the publisher. This did nothing to influence my review.)
Content Warning: Murder, Death, Blood, Gore, Gun Violence, Sexual Content, Terminal Illness, Car Accident
For Readers of: Action, Adult, Audio, Catchy Title, Holy Crap, ThrillersIn this darkly funny, slightly unhinged, heart-pounding thriller, two office rivals must team up to escape wild animals and even wilder coworkers on a corporate retreat gone wrong.
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.
*MY THOUGHTS*
I really have no idea wtf I just read lol I finished it and immediately sat down to process and say “wtf” lol it was a lot.
Never in my life did I ever think I would read another book like the Hunger Games. And even less so as an adult book LOL But here we are lol And this was actually batshit crazy. Why in the world would someone go to this instead of just trying to figure it all out? This was past the extreme lol chile this was a hot mess. Talk about workplace drama lol
The whole time I was reading this I was wondering what kind of person the boss was because WTF lol How in the world did it go from retiring to thinking there’s something going on to THIS?! Like how was this your next thing? Lol I was like wait, what?! Literally everyone in this book is unhinged lol
There IS a romance in this, but it actually just annoyed me. Ain’t no way in hell we’re doing the do in the jungle while people are actively trying to kill us. I just found that so weird lol Like bruh now is not the time! But also I applaud them because let me tell you, in this kind of situation, I’m not trusting anyone. I’m glad they got to get in one last hurrah, but yeah no, couldn’t be me lol
This was so unhinged. From the beginning to the end. It absolutely made for some good bookish fun. I couldn’t put it down! I for real looked like that Michael Jackson eating popcorn meme! I really liked this a lot more than I thought I would.
Overall, I give this
