Title: Tea With Elephants
Author: Robin Jones Gunn
Series: Suitcase Sisters, book 1
Major Themes: Kenya, Travel, Friends, Africa
Synopsis: When Fern and Lily unexpectedly have the opportunity to go on an all expenses paid trip to Africa together, they discover that each has some major issues to work through and decisions to make.
By now, anyone who reads these book reviews regularly knows that, while I will read almost anything as long as it is clean, I really prefer books that don’t include much romance. I am delighted when I can find a women’s fiction book that isn’t a romance. That alone made Tea With Elephants attractive to me, but the setting sounded fun, too.
Publisher’s description:
Ever since they met as teenagers volunteering at a conference center in Costa Rica 20 years ago, Fern Espinoza and Lily Graden have shared a close friendship, even though they live in different states. They can hardly believe it when their teen dream of traveling to Africa together becomes a reality. It’s the trip of a lifetime—but life sure isn’t what they thought it would be back when they were young.
Along with their suitcases, each woman brings along emotional baggage that weighs heavily on them. Yet the people they meet and the places they experience have the power to change their hearts—but only if they surrender to the lessons God wants to teach them in this unexpected land of emerald tea fields, graceful giraffes, and rambunctious elephants.
Pack your bags and get ready for adventure as Robin Jones Gunn invites you on a safari of the heart in this vulnerable exploration of how to move forward in faith even when the future is uncertain.
My thoughts:
I found myself surprised by the depth I found in Tea With Elephants. Both women had a lot to work through, and I enjoyed reading about their journeys as they learned about themselves and about what God wanted them to do. Their challenges were quite different from each other. I enjoyed following along as they met up with various people who helped them, either intentionally or inadvertently (and sometimes by acting the opposite of the way Fern and Lily wanted to be!), to find God’s direction for their lives in a new phase of life. This is the perfect book for those like me who enjoy stories with a lot of internal conflict. It is a women’s fiction book without romance but with plenty of conversation and action to keep it interesting. I enjoyed it, and will be watching for more from this author.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley, and these are my honest thoughts about it.
No warnings!
Age levels:
Reading Independently—Adults
Links to buy this book:
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