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A Spear of Summer Grass
by Deanna Raybourn
I received this book as a ARC after winning a copy from Deanna Raybourn's website. I am so glad I was able to read it.
Delilah Drummond is sent to Kenya by her family to wait out a scandal that she has caused in Paris. She doesn't want to go but isn't given much choice. She lives a life that she choses and asks for forgiveness from no one. She and her cousing Dora head off to Kenya so she can avoid the scandal and continue to receive money from her grandfather. She had no idea what awaits her. She mets Ryder White when she and Dora get off the train. Needless to say it was not a friendly first meeting. She is continually at odds with him from the start.
Delilah meet her neighbors and spends time with them. She knows several of them from previous social engagements in the past. She starts a casual affair with a painter that she knew previously. She discovers that not everyone believes in freedom and rights like she does. She and Ryder are in agreement that the tribes should be treated with respect. She also finds that he challenges her to be a better person. She doesn't want to fall in love with him or Africa but she does gradually.
There is a lot to this book and I loved every minute of it. I don't read a lot of books set in colonial Africa or the 1920s. I enjoyed every aspect of this one. She did a good job a keeping my interests and making me invested in the characters and their lives.
Please read the prequel Far in the Wilds before reading this one. It gives you the background on Ryder and allows you to get a glimpse of what makes him tick.
Delilah Drummond is sent to Kenya by her family to wait out a scandal that she has caused in Paris. She doesn't want to go but isn't given much choice. She lives a life that she choses and asks for forgiveness from no one. She and her cousing Dora head off to Kenya so she can avoid the scandal and continue to receive money from her grandfather. She had no idea what awaits her. She mets Ryder White when she and Dora get off the train. Needless to say it was not a friendly first meeting. She is continually at odds with him from the start.
Delilah meet her neighbors and spends time with them. She knows several of them from previous social engagements in the past. She starts a casual affair with a painter that she knew previously. She discovers that not everyone believes in freedom and rights like she does. She and Ryder are in agreement that the tribes should be treated with respect. She also finds that he challenges her to be a better person. She doesn't want to fall in love with him or Africa but she does gradually.
There is a lot to this book and I loved every minute of it. I don't read a lot of books set in colonial Africa or the 1920s. I enjoyed every aspect of this one. She did a good job a keeping my interests and making me invested in the characters and their lives.
Please read the prequel Far in the Wilds before reading this one. It gives you the background on Ryder and allows you to get a glimpse of what makes him tick.