Years ago I read a couple of Liz Curtis Higgs' works of fiction called Bookends and Mixed Signals and loved them. Since then our daughter has read some of her historical fiction, but I was partial to the funny love stories.
Around the time I read her fiction, I signed up for her snail-mail list. Such a sweet and comfortable woman to have contact with, even as a fan and not a friend. Very approachable.
I say all that to say she's still 'got it.' A woman who knows how to reach out to other women and she's still able to laugh at herself, making her more appealing that ever. This newest book It's Good to Be Queen is about the Queen of Sheba, and while initially I believed it to be a novel, I was mistaken, but am very pleased with the Bible study aspects of it, even though I'm not partial to studies. The overruling impression I was left with was the intelligence of Sheba. A woman who knew how to use the traits the Lord gifted her with, not inappropriately, but as God intended (even though she wasn't serving the One Living God at that time). Not what we're used to seeing. In the modern day women use their femininity to trick and trap. Not so with Sheba.
The book has a Study Guide in the back as well, loaded with discussion questions, asking the unexpected. Researched extensively and full of things to think about.
(i received this book free to review from waterbrook press)
