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Title: Making Faces

Author: Amy harmon

Page count: 405

Published: October 12, 2013

Publisher: N/A

Genre: War, Coming of age

Received: Bought my self

Rating:   4.5/5

Summary:

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 Beastwhere we discover that there is little beauty and a little beast in all of us.

My Thoughts:

I did read this book a while ago and this was the first book that I have read by Amy and after I read the blub an how it had a reference to Beauty and the Beast (happens to be my favourite movie) I knew I had to read it.

 

This book follows Fern an the insecurities that she has at seeing that she is beautiful. She has red hair, freckles, glasses and braces. She loves to read and she also takes care of her cousin Bailey. Fern has also been in love with Ambrose for as long as she can remember but he has never really taken notice of her. Until one day that everything changes when there both in High school.

 

Baily is a strong, full of life and laugher character he was so funny. He also had a special relationship with Ambrose which I thought was good.

 

Ambrose is a popular guy in school he is the star wrestler and has gotten a full scholarship to collage. He writes these letters an he has no idea that Fern is the one that is replying to him. He tells her things that he hasn’t told anyone. Then one day he finds out that is her and he isn’t sure what he should do. One day he decides after 9/11 he wanted to do something to help out. So he and his four friends decided to enlist in the Army. When he comes he is a different guy because of the things that he had gone through.

 

Fern wants to help Ambrose but he is so down on himself that he isn’t the same but Fern doesn’t give up on him.

 

This was such a beautiful story, you all should check it out.