The Mending of Lives: Key Focus of ‘The Pilgrim’
I’m touched by the reader reviews of The Pilgrim that are coming in. Today, you’ll hear from:
Anne Rightler
Jared Beiswenger
Eddie Gilley
Jodelle Svenhard
Please click the link next to each reviewer’s name to read his or her full review.
Anne Rightler, on Goodreads
Not knowing what lay ahead her intent was to walk the path of Christ’s grief and suffering. Helena, rejected wife of a Roman emperor, mother of Constantine the Great, only knew it was the will of God for her to take this path.
Davis Bunn’s masterful historical novel, The Pilgrim, brings readers a glimpse in the life of a woman, now revered as a saint in some religious faiths…a woman who heard from God and would not be deterred. Helena admits to those she meets she has failed God more often than she wants to recall and is told God wants her to know and share in others’ suffering.
She finds solace in servitude; the Empress giving freely that others may live and see Christ in her. The story is replete with characters in need of her healing balm. Broken people who needed to know the forgiveness of Christ in their souls and in their body. Broken people like the readers may be, in need of seeing God at work in their own lives.
Bunn writes of hope and healing and the mending of lives.
“THE PILGRIM: glimpse of a woman who heard from God and would not be deterred.” -Anne Rightler
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Jared Beiswenger, on Goodreads
“…the book has a solid Biblical message throughout. I think the themes will most resonate with those who have suffered great loss in their lives. I can’t relate closely myself, but nonetheless, I was emotionally invested by the climax. The Pilgrim also sparked my interest in the history of the Roman Empire and the early Church. After reading I was inspired to research the true stories behind the novel.”
THE PILGRIM sparked my interest in the history of the Roman Empire.” -Jared Beiswenger
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Eddie Gilley, on his blog
There is drama, action, character development, and the gospel woven intricately within the story lines… There are moral messages of peace and reconciliation…”
Jodelle Svenhard, on Goodreads
The Pilgrim is one of those books that “picks up” around word two.
Effervescent with historical characters you swear you studied in college, but suddenly you find they have emotions and lives and are not remotely similar to the gaudy figureheads you took for granted on the white pages of that dorm-room textbook. They live and breath before you as if someone found a way for them to “string theory” through history and sit by your side. And, indeed, someone did. The author, Davis Bunn, is the spellbinder.
“Sit,” however, is something this book rarely does. The characters charge, banter, ponder, blunder and bluster…. The life of a pilgrim is never dull… At least, not this Pilgrim.
Ha. what an unassuming name. About an unassuming individual…. in an unassuming world… But, it cannot remain unassuming, there is too much warmth. Embers from a forgotten fire that blazed through the pages of history so brightly that even dusty canvas, slovenly habits and our modern digitalized age cannot starved it completely cold or still.
Davis Bunn has found that fire, fueled it with words and faith. In The Pilgrim an Empress, a long buried kingdom and one of the most famous Generals in the world LIVE again.
Enjoy meeting them! I did.
“The life of a pilgrim is never dull… At least, not this Pilgrim.” -Jodelle Svenhard
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