It’s not a great sign when you are left confused after finishing a book, but that’s exactly how I’m feeling. There are no reviews of this on either Goodreads or Amazon and while I don’t want the first review to be poor, I have to be honest.
Saba is from Rwanda and left his job of many years at a nonprofit because he was feeling uninspired. He decided to go a completely new route as a tour guide with a travel company. His first outing with clients proves to be disastrous, but he connects with one of his clients, Karen. He asks Karen out and is very upset when she tells him she wants to wait two years before deciding whether or not they should date. She moves to Zimbabwe and thus begins Saba’s two years of waiting for Karen to return.
In all honesty, I’m not sure what the hiatus was. Was it a hiatus from Karen? Was it a hiatus from dating other people? I thought this was going to be a book about Saba’s self discovery, but during the entire two years I didn’t see any discovery or growth within him.
It really reads like it was written by someone with no writing skills. The grammar is good, but the sentences and themes are simplistic. The beginning has so much detail- details that could probably be left out but the end has so little details, it has Saba jumping from one country to another without any transition.
I kept asking myself what the point of this was while I was reading it and when I finished, I was still left wondering. From what I can see, this is a self published book and it shows.
Again, I feel terrible about not only bashing someone’s first book, but also being the first to do so. I hope Mr. Masozera doesn’t let this deter him from writing again in the future, if that’s where his heart truly lies.

Started this book not knowing what to expect, was it a travel guide an autobiography, or a romance novel?

A mixture of all three became apparent as the book progressed. It would have been nice if a time span could have been the lead-in for each element of the story.

Saba seemed to be a character that could have grown a lot more in the book, such a pity this was not explored more. In the early parts of the book, it did raise a few questions about life choices and who makes them, family or yourself?