MAKING FACES
AMY HARMON
5 STARS
I rarely read a book that just inspires me to be a better
person and wakes me up. Often, we take
our lives for granted and just do what we do every single day not appreciating
what we have. Making Faces woke me
up. It shook up my world and made me
realize to live every day to the fullest and not take anything or anyONE for
granted.
SYNOPSIS:
Synopsis
Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She’d been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have…until he wasn’t beautiful anymore.
Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl’s love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior’s love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.
OUR REVIEW:
“If God made all our faces,
did he laugh when he made me? Does he make legs that cannot walk and eyes that
cannot see? Does he curl the hair on my head ‘til it rebels in wild defiance?
Does he close the ears of a deaf man to make him more reliant? Is the way I
look a coincidence or just a twist of fate? If he made me this way, is it okay
to blame him for the things I hate? For the flaws that seem to worsen every
time I see a mirror, for the ugliness I see in me, for the loathing and the
fear. Does he sculpt us for his pleasure,
for a reason I can’t see? If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made
me?”
But what she lacks
for in her looks she makes up for it in her heart and personality. She has been
in love with the boy, Ambrose, since they were kids. Ambrose is the school god. He is a jock and the popular beautiful
boy.
Not fulfilling his wrestling scholarship and surprising the
town, Ambrose and four of his friend sign up for the Guard and go off to
war. Only Ambrose returns, scarred,
mentally and physically, no longer the beautiful boy who left a year
before. Fern along with her best friend
and cousin Baily, try to help him return to the man he was before he left.
Baily is the cousin who was diagnosed with Muscular
Dystrophy and is in a wheelchair. He
brings this story to life and lightens some of the toughest moments. He was my favorite character of the whole
story, and I loved EVERY one in this story.
Baily was dealt a tough life, and he has his doubts about death and
being remembered:
“I think that’s the
worst part. The thought that no one will
remember me when I’m gone. Sure, my
parents will. Fern will. But how does
someone like me live on? When it’s all said and done, did I matter?”
but while he also has those negative thoughts, he is also
the most positive and the smartest character of the story. HE was truly an inspiration.
This story is witty, emotional, happy, sad, loving, moving,
inspiring, tough, and so many other things.
Please do yourself a favor and read this book. This is one that will never
be forgotten and you won’t regret reading.
PURCHASE LINKS:
GIVEAWAY:
1st prize
- Kindle Paperwhite
- $50 Amazon Gift Card
- Signed set of all 5 of Amy Harmon’s books!
2nd prize
- Signed copy of Making Faces
- $25 Amazon Gift Card
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