"At eleven o'clock this morning, I was standing at the edge of a rain forest with my eyes closed." (p. 6)
This novel consists of fourteen chapters and is about a tour group of young tourists in Belize. The main characters are two young women sharing the same hotel room, Jennifer Wilson and Lisa Casey. Each chapter is narrated by either Jennifer or Lisa alternately, so that readers can can get a more in-depth look at the story.
Jennifer is unsociable and the type of person who loves nature and travelling off the beat track, while Lisa loves at the center of everyone's attention and is always complaining about something and also hates being in the tour because only Jennifer is single in the tour group. Lisa is actually attracted to one of the tour group members, Ian. He goes out with Caroline, who is also in the tour, but Ian tells only Jennifer that Caroline is not his wife. They are having an argument during the trip and not getting along well.
About Jennifer, she has a fiancé, Pete, but she is not always a good girl and describes her engagement as complicated. When a local man, Ocean, asks her out to go swimming together, she does not say yes or go with him but she is thinking she may be persuaded next time he asks her out just because Ocean is so handsome. When she goes to a bar, she finds Ian on his own without Caroline and lets him vent his emotions about his life. She also bumps into Ocean again and they go somewhere together. After her "flirting", karma is catching up with her and the story is to be continued...
From my point of view, the of the funniest scenes in the story is when Jennifer is reading and not listening to Lisa in their hotel room and Lisa gets really annoyed. Lisa zips wallets shut and open again and again to let off steam and annoy Jennifer back with those zipping noises. It sure drives Jennifer nuts and after asking Lisa if she is admiring Jennifer's plastic wallet, she goes read her book on the balcony.
See which character you will identify with, Jennifer or Lisa. If you like love stories with a happy ending, you will like Jungle Love. Enjoy.
Johnson, Margaret. (2003). Jungle Love. Cambridge English Readers.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/0521750849?tag=booklogjp-default-22&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1
