Making Faces
Ratings13
Average rating4.1
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Ratings13
Average rating4.1
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.
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Loved this book so much! Had me bawling my eyes out. So many feels!
This was a surprise. A happy one. [a:Amy Harmon 5829056 Amy Harmon https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1341709289p2/5829056.jpg] has written a solid and sensitive story about life. There is a religious or rather spiritual subtext, but I didn't feel like I was being preached at, which I appreciate, since it's not my speed. What I did love were the principals: Fern, Bailey and Ambrose, whom we follow from childhood to early adulthood, and through them the ups and downs of ordinary lives. I did this as an audio by [a:Rob Shapiro 2887475 Rob Shapiro https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] and I was blown away. I wouldn't recommend much listening in public as ugly crying is a distinct possibility.
Chef's kiss... Absolutely beautiful!!
Ok i did not expect to like this book much at all. Bought it in an audible sale, and since it was Amy Harmon (looooved the Second Blind Son, didn't love from Blood and Ash), i decided to give it a shot. I was delighted!
It tells the story of Fern, Ambrose and Bailey, in a very loose beauty and the beast retelling. But it's so much more. The characters feel so real, they're damaged by trauma and circumstance, but they trully want to be good people, and make the right choices with the situations they're in. It's so refreshing to see a character like Ambrose, who's made some immature choices that led to serious consequences for him and others, and still, try not to hurt anyone anymore and to recognize where he went wrong instead of being the usual brooding that hurts others because he's damaged love interest.
Fern, is a nurturer, but more than once in the book gets checked for it, and made to see that even that can be a sign of something deeper.
And Bailey, just the most inspirational and yet somehow feels real, character I've read in a while. I laughed and cried with him and it definitely leaves you with a sense of trying to be a better person, in spite of your circumstances.
A book where the parents are mostly not awful, and can be real father figures and wise advisors.
If i have one complaint, its a side storyline, with a mustache turning bad guy and a damsel in distress type. But even that is at times grounded in reality.
Overall, this was beautiful. I cried, laugh had a silly grin throughout, and i swear i left the book inspired to do better and not just take circumstances inwardly, but to make the best of things for others as well. Cannot recommend this book enough!
