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Angel Of Mercy (2007)

Angel of Mercy (2007)

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0553570838 (ISBN13: 9780553570830)
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English
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laurel leaf

About book Angel Of Mercy (2007)

One of these things is like all the others. True to the stereotypical Lurlene McDaniel story, this novel is a tale of eighteen-year-old Heather’s search for the greater meaning in life after death. Heather, having left her family as a volunteer to go help small daycares and schools in Africa, immediately meets the strapping young Scottish man named Ian who teaches her how to handle the disease, death and misery she struggles to come to terms with upon coming to Africa. Strengthened by this man, though a bit less idealistic, Heather learns how to serve and help a young African child who has no family except for a baby sister who is trapped in a neighboring warring city and is in dire need of surgery. Ian volunteers to enter this dangerous city to save the child soon after Heather and he declared their love for one another and shared a first kiss. Not all that unexpectedly, Ian dies in a tragic plane accident. Devastated by the loss Heather decides to try again, this time she’ll go. Happily ended, Heather is a stronger person because of her struggles. Forgive my biased review, but I actually couldn’t help chucking the book on the ground after I finished. The story itself was extremely cliché and hackneyed, as well as unrealistically corny. It’s an easy read and may be valuable for young female readers who are just beginning to be exposed to YA literature. Beyond that, I don’t know if this book has much merit at all.

Category: McDanielsThis book is about a girl who sails o Africa on a mission to help those in medical need. She also strives to help people spiritually. The girl, Heather, has many spiritual experiences and meets a lot of interesting people on her journey. I didn't enjoy this book, because it was blatantly didactic and cheesy. I am touched by a book when it indirectly inspires me. I think that indirectness has a better ability to touch people, because they get to choose their feelings instead of being spoon fed. I think this book would appeal to teenage girls who have missionary families, but that's about it.

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Loved It! Fabulous!Theme: Love triumphs over all: hate, selfishness, cruelty, tragedy, deathTheme: Act kindly without seeking ultimate reasons. Practice random acts of kindness.Theme: Believe in yourself. To succeed, we must first believe that we can.Theme: One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm.Theme: Things are usually not as bad as you think they will be.Theme: People from other cultures are really very much like us.Theme: Look for the golden lining.
—Marie Danielle

In this fiction book, Heather, a charitable girl recently graduated from high school leaves the comfort of her wealthy home in Florida to spend six months assisting at a charity hospital in Uganda. She leaves on the trip with a desire to make a difference in the world, and though she does achieve this goal in the service she renders, an even greater change is made in her as she learns to reach beyond herself and see others for the children of God they are. The trip is physically and emotionally draining for Heather, but the spiritual improvements in her life make everything worthwhile. While on this journey, she meets and falls in love with another member of her group, a handsome young man from Scotland named Ian. The two grow close together over the six months, and he finally expresses his love for her days before he dies while on a rescue mission of an infant. Heather finally goes home after she rescues the infant and reunites the infant with her older sister. The book is enjoyable and gives the reader the opportunity to grow along with the characters. Ian's death is disappointing and takes away from the happy ending I would have wanted, but it is still and overall good read.
—Megan

This book was about Heather Barlow traveling to Uganda to help out the local citizens to reach their nessessity. She travelled by ship to reach to Uganda. During the trip, she met a friend named Ian McCollum. Ian was with Heather whenever she is nostalgic for home and grieve when a little child died. Ian and her had faced obstacles that deals with misery, death, diseases and war.I think it is book was okay but wasn't as good as what I expected. But overall, I learned a lot about how people lived in Uganda and what it was like. Similar to a television series in Chinese I watched this year even though it was played in 2003. They shared common themes. Such as saving a life, doing meaningful things in life and to help others in need.
—Michelle

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