Book Giveaway! (and Review)

I'm excited to offer my first giveaway! Yay! I was given two free copies of the book The Heart Mender by Andy Andrews. One copy was for me to read and review for all of you, and the other copy was to give away to one of you! First, let me review the book.



I wasn’t sure if I would like The Heart Mender by Andy Andrews. While I do like to read some historical books and I also like to read love stories, I haven’t read many stories set during the WWII period. I was pleasantly surprised with this book.

The book is part historical account, part mystery/thriller, and part love story. I tend to figure out plots and twists in them fairly quickly and easily, but this book was actually able to throw a few things in there that surprised me.

The characters were well-developed and came to life. I felt like I really knew them by the end of the book, and loved to find out that the story is based on a true story. I came to care for the main characters of Josef and Helen, and loved the way things ended for them. Josef was a German man that was aboard a U-Boat in WWII when he washed ashore in the Gulf of Mexico. Helen, a widow who lost her husband in the war, found him and nursed him back to health. She had to deal with her intense pain and anger in losing her husband to the Nazis, and found that Josef is not the hated enemy she first believed him to be.

The story’s inspirational message is a great one to be admired. It is a story of forgiveness and letting go of anger before it consumes you. Love can often times be found in the most unlikely of places, as this story shows.

The book did start out a bit on the slow side and made me think I wouldn’t like it after all, but when I got into the story it became intense enough that I didn’t want to put it down.

If you like love stories, inspirational stories, thrillers, mysteries, or historical books; then this is the book for you!

Now onto the fun stuff. As I said, I'm giving away a new copy of The Heart Mender for free! If you would like to enter, here's how to get some entries:

1) Post a comment to this post, including your email address. (One entry)
2) Follow this blog, then post in the comments section of this post that you follow the blog. (One entry)
3) Refer friends and make sure they post in the comments section that you referred them. You will receive one entry for every friend referred.
4) Subscribe to this blog's feed and again, post a comment that you did this.
5) Post about this giveaway on your blog or social media site. Post a comment telling me you did this. (One entry)

I will take entries until May 28th. That gives everyone a little over two weeks to get those entries in! On May 28th I will use random.org to randomly choose the winner. The winner will be notified through email and I will ship the free book to the winner once I receive address information.

Fairly easy, right? So, please enter and pass the word to friends!