Book Review: The Heart Mender

When I first began reading Andy Andrew's The Heart Mender, I was honestly worried that I wouldn't like it. The story got off to a bit of a puzzling start, but as the pieces of the mystery fell into place, I found myself digging deeper into the book, curious to find out more about what seems to be a very true love story between a WWII "Nazi" and the American waitress who finds his battered body on the shoreline.

Helen has just lost her husband to the war and finds herself in a lonely pit of anger and despair. When taking a late night walk, she stumbles upon a German soldier's body lying on the shore, and her first instincts are to leave him to die. Yet when this man whom she assumes is a heartless Nazi, quickly demonstrates his kind spirit, Helen undergoes an enormous risk by lugging the wounded soldier back to her sea-side cottage and nurses whom she thought was her enemy, back to health.

With enough romance and action to satisfy an array of readers, The Heart Mender is a story of love and second chances. The account of one woman's need to forgive and a displaced soldier who has no where else to turn, The Heart Mender is a reminder that a person's true colors do not decorate any uniform, but exist within the heart.

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Thomas Nelson has provided me with a complimentary copy of this book, and the opinions expressed are my own.