Review: Interesting re-telling of Tarzan
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2013
Ari and her uncle travel to Africa in hopes that they will be able to locate the wild man who's been living in the jungle for the majority of his life. The only problem is, they have no idea that the second they stepped into the jungle, the wild one was watching them... Ari to be precise.I was extremely excited to read this story. I've never read a re-telling of Tarzan before and this story sounded like a good one. You see, they capture the wild one, teach him how to be civilized and introduce him back into society as Zan. The only thing that Zan wants though is Ari but Ari is engaged to be married to another man.There were way too many points of view in this story for me and there wasn't always a definite break between them. So I found myself getting confused quite a bit when the POV would switch to a secondary or sometimes even more distant character. It would jump like this between chapters with no markings that the POV had changed. I also felt that all the POVs weren't necessary. I would have much preferred just Zan and Ari's POV with a little bit of Ari's fiance mixed in. There was also a lot of scenes that were drawn out or not necessary. I found myself skimming over quite a bit of the story to get back to the important parts that were taking place.I really enjoyed the beginning of the book when they find him in the jungle. The first encounter between Ari and Zan is so "untamed" and animal instinct driven that it's hard to not get sucked into the rawness of it. I mean you figure he's only known the way of animals so he lacks the understanding or the wrongness of what he does when it comes to Ari."She felt sore but not hurt. She'd been forced but did not feel abused. She did not hate him. She didn't even fear him. He simply wanted her."It got me really excited for the upcoming story because surely it had to get better than that! But like I said a lot of the middle was boring talk and way too many POV's to keep track of who I was reading from, that I lost interest for a while there. I wish the author had kept that same rawness throughout more of the story before it turned to Zan "the gentleman".