Faith Heart by Al Lacy - Book ReviewFaith Heart by Al Lacy –Book Review

Press Release Portion:

Faithful Heart

 By Al and Joanna Lacy – The adventures of certified medical nurse and dedicated Christian Breanna Baylor continue as she travels by wagon train to visit her sister,Dottie,in California. Little does she know that her most dangerous encounter might be with Jerrod,her brother-in-law,who’s suffering from dementia caused by combat fatigue.

This book was provided to me by WaterBrookMutlnomah.com for my review.

My Thoughts on this book:

This is the first book of the Angel of Mercy series by Al Lacy.  It is,however,the second book of the series.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that I did not have an issue having not read the first book.  The author did an excellent job there.  Most of the time when you start a book out of series,you have a hard time understanding what is going on.  The author in this case provided you with a prologue which helped me to feel comfortable starting right off. 

The story is set in the 1870s traveling between Breanna Baylor and her sister Dottie Harper.  Breanna spends most of the story on the way to California to her sister serving as a nurse for the wagon train she is on.  There was a nice romance going between Breanna and John Stranger throughout the train ride which was very nice.  Unfortunately,I had a lot of issues with the medical terminology that was used throughout most of the book.  Not that I’m an expert there but I don’t believe that nurses were allowed to perform surgery back at that stage of history.  I think a lot of the technology was more modern medicine and since there was a lot of dialogue regarding it.  It made the story hard to believe. This is a Christian based book and there was a lot of reference to religion in it.

I was able to connect with Breanna but never really had the chance to connect with Dottie since most of the story was on the ride to California with Breanna.  I had an issue with how long it took Dottie to take her children away from a violent situation with her husband who was suffering from a mental illness.  In my mind,she did not have a reason to put her children in harm’s way.  The violence that the children endured in this book was hard for me to stomach.

Although I do believe if all the technical verbiage was not in the book,it would have been a better read.  I did enjoy parts of the book.  Just not all of it.  I found that I was easily able to figure out the plot which makes it hard for me to continue to read.  I want a book that makes me wonder what is going to happen next to make me want to continue to read.  For someone else,it might be the perfect read.  I’m not that much on Christian or war books. 

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