Weekend Book Review--Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes

     I was very excited to get to read and review Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes, because it was written by one of my favorite authors, Robin Jones Gunn.  As a teenager I waited impatiently for each book in her Christy Miller series to come out.  In my early 20s I did the same with her Glenbrooke series. I resisted reading any of the books in her Sisterchicks series because the characters are in a different season of their lives than I am, but decided to give this one a try.
     The main character, Summer, gets an "abnormal" test result back from the Doctor and decides to live in denial for an extra week and go visit her long time pen-pal, Noelle, in the Netherlands.  The two ladies embark on a few crazy adventures while siteseeing that leave them and the reader laughing.  Robin Jones Gunn doesn't write her books on a shallow level though and throughout the book we see the characters help each other learn more about themselves (isn't it true that sometimes we know things about close friends/family that they haven't realized about themselves?) and more about trusting God at a deeper level.
    Although I won’t be rushing out to find other books from this series, I enjoyed reading this book.  I like how the characters seem like real people that I could sit down and hang out with and how they are struggling with real issues.  I also like how the author digs deep and uses her books to help the reader grow as the characters in the book grow.

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I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. The review is my honest opinion of the book.