With rejections piling up, she could use just a little inspiration...
Amy Gallagher, aspiring writer, has an unabashed obsession with words. She gave up a steady, albeit unexciting, job to pursue a life of writing. However, two years and one master's degree later, she finds herself almost exactly right back where she started. Discouraged by the growing pile of rejections from publishers and afraid that she has settled, Amy knows something has to change.
Then she meets the mysterious, attractive, and unavailable Eli. Amy finds herself struggling to walk the fine line between friendship and something more with Eli, even as she tries to cope with the feeling that her friends and family are moving on without her. When the unexpected begins pouring in, Amy doubts the love and fulfillment she seeks will ever come her way. Forced to take a close look at who she has become, the state of her faith, and her aspirations for her life, she must make a choice: play it safe yet again or finally find the courage to follow her dreams.
My Thoughts:
Reading this novel I was reminded why I don’t read much contemporary Christain fiction novels of this sort. One or two a year more than satisfy my appetite.
I’m not saying this book wasn’t good, it was certainly interesting enough…or maybe I should say it certainly did its part in educating me in secular Christendom. There were about a thousand thoughts in this book I couldn’t agree with. I know that my conservative, sheltered upbringing plays a part in my alienation from mainstream Christian thinking of today, but nonetheless, I thought the Christian message of this book shallow and mostly empty.
The book was fairly well written, I did finish it. But it was melancholy and had an air of lonesomeness that I feel the author never conquered. It felt like the main character never secured or overcame her troubled thought-life, which also played out in her real life. The more admirable characters lifestyles weren’t disciplined or structured either. It seemed they just lived, you didn’t know if they were coming or going.
If the message of this book is indeed what Christianity is all about, it’s troubling. No wonder there is such a falling away from the Christian faith. And we all have bad days where we wonder what this life is all about, but shouldn’t we have an overall victorious perspective?
I really wouldn’t know for what reason I’d recommend this book.
A copy of this book was provided by the publisher.
1 reflections:
I read and reviewed this book. I did like it (not loved) but I do agree with you in that it certai8nly did not seem like a Christian based book, other than the fact that she believed in God. I did absolutely loved the ending! Very romantic.
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