Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann

Leo Deakin wakes up in hospital in South America to find out that his beloved girlfriend, Eleni, died in the same coach crash that incapacitated him. Devastated, he arranges for her body to be flown home to her native Greece, but struggles to come to terms with his loss, pushing away his parents and friends. 75 years earlier, Moritz Daniecki is somewhere in Siberia, after surviving the Great War, and is deserately trying to make his way to his home in Poland to find the love of his life, Lotte. Will Leo eventually get over the grief of Eleni's death? Will Moritz ever be reunited with his love? And could there be a link between Leo and Moritz? Romance is very ...  Read the complete review

To be honest I was a bit put off by the title of this book and I'm not sure why I picked it up as love stories are really not my thing. The synopsis on the back of the book was more interesting than the title however, as at least part of it was about WWI. The book follows the journeys of two men - both physical and emotional - separated by 75 years. Moritz is a young man who has been drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI and somehow survives. He ends up in a POW camp in Siberia after being captured by the Russians. Moritz is determined to escape in order to return to his sweetheart, Lotte, who is waiting for him in their village in what is now ...  Read the complete review

I've just finished reading this book and I ultimately really enjoyed it. As you may infer from my terminology I didn't get "into" it to start with. The book follows the stories of Moritz Daniecki and Leo Deakin, although they are told 75 years apart. I wasn't quite sure where the title fitted into the story to start with, but at its most basic level it is the story of one mans quest to hold on to his first true love through trial and tribulation and another's quest to learn to let go after his love dies. Moritz Daniecki is from Ulanow in the old Austrian Hungarian Empire. He survived the horrors of the Great War by holding on ...  Read the complete review