Amy Inspired

by Bethany Pierce

Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko

my Gallagher, aspiring writer, has an unabashed obsession with words. She wants to write, but keeps finding herself back doing something simply to make money, like teaching. The rejections pile up, her roommate is getting published, and there is no marriage prospects in sight.
Then Eli walks into the picture. Grubby, attractive, and available, she wonders if she should feel attracted to him at all. She deals with feeling like she is inadequate, her roommate is losing her mother and feels she is too controlling with all her schedules and lists…..she wonders if her writing students will ever get it. Is love or writing a future for her?  Or will it go by the way side like her dream of going into space?
My Review:
When I finished this book, I realized that Ms. Pierce  had written another deep book I had enjoyed called “Feeling for bones”. In this book you feel the pain that Amy feels for her friend Zoe, the confusion in her career, the longing for more in life…..
Ms. Pierce really writes with a passion, where you feel all the things that her character feels. At the end, you are a little disappointed when you  have to finish the actual story in your head….you assume what happened, but it is not laid out for you. I wanted Eli to wash his clothes too, not just dry them. it bothered me the whole book!!!
Her final story, she finishes in the book was very funny! I really liked it and would have read that story in a magazine!
It was not really what I would call christian fiction at all, but would have been just as well fit in a secular market.
Thank you to Bethany House Publishers for providing this book for review.

my Gallagher, aspiring writer, has an unabashed obsession with words. She wants to write, but keeps finding herself back doing something simply to make money, like teaching. The rejections pile up, her roommate is getting published, and there is no marriage prospects in sight.
Then Eli walks into the picture. Grubby, attractive, and available, she wonders if she should feel attracted to him at all. She deals with feeling like she is inadequate, her roommate is losing her mother and feels she is too controlling with all her schedules and lists…..she wonders if her writing students will ever get it. Is love or writing a future for her?  Or will it go by the way side like her dream of going into space?
My Review:
When I finished this book, I realized that Ms. Pierce  had written another deep book I had enjoyed called “Feeling for bones”. In this book you feel the pain that Amy feels for her friend Zoe, the confusion in her career, the longing for more in life…..
Ms. Pierce really writes with a passion, where you feel all the things that her character feels. At the end, you are a little disappointed when you  have to finish the actual story in your head….you assume what happened, but it is not laid out for you. I wanted Eli to wash his clothes too, not just dry them. it bothered me the whole book!!!Her final story, she finishes in the book was very funny! I really liked it and would have read that story in a magazine!

It was not really what I would call christian fiction at all, but would have been just as well fit in a secular market.

Thank you to Bethany House Publishers for providing this book for review.

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Martha Artyomenko is an unpublished fiction author who has published some nonfiction magazine articles and reviews over the years. An avid reader and mother of four sons, she brings her many years of expertise to play when writing realistic fiction about topics of mothering, domestic violence, and childbirth. In her free time, if she is not reading, you will find her walking while musing about her next story to write or traveling to learn history for another story. Martha Artyomenko supports authors by running an active social media group (Avid Readers of Christian Fiction) and newsletter promoting niche fiction authors that would otherwise be unknown. Join me by leaving a comment or signing up for the newsletter.

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