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.
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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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My all-time favorite book that I can reread a million times and it never gets old. This is my go to book when I have a bad day or I’m in a reading slump. This book makes me laugh, cry, and think about life. Love this book so much.
Do you ever feel like when you finish reading a book, you’ve just went through a cleansing of the soul and have a better outlook on life and the people who surround you? When I finish reading a book by Amy Harmon, I feel like I’ve purged the bad out of my system and inhaled love for all.
Making Faces was no exception!
I balled my eyes out. Not …
It’s a beautiful heartwarming sweet story with great characters that were good people struggling with accepting the difficult hands that were dealt to them, but trying not to be a victim about it. The hero is impossible not to love and so is the heroine, each one special in their own way. Bailey who is not the protagonists it’s perhaps the …
What a beautiful story of two people with UGS ( Ugly Girl/Guy Syndrome)
Ambrose Young is a Master of His Small Universe of Hannah Lake . He’s beautiful, powerful, star athlete, popular and a bright future
Ambrose Young was absolutely beautiful, a Greek god among mortals, the stuff of fairy tales and movie screens. Unlike the other boys, he wore …
Whew very emotional. Ugly duckling meets popular jock turned beast. So many great characters. Yet is seemed only two get their happy ever after. But the do work exceptionally hard for it. A good book if you want some feels.
This was such a sweet love story, It had a great message, the message that Ambrose and Ferns romance portrayed – the importance of finding beauty in all things, on the inside and the outside and even in the ugly.
Fern has never been considered beautiful. Not even pretty. That makes her think that she has zero chance with Ambrose, the handsome …
Amy Harmon sure has a way with delving deep inside the psyche and hearts of her characters. This time we have Fern and Ambrose. This is more a YA/NA coming of age book, yet, the wordmaster did it again. It was a heartfelt journey of love, heartache, and growing into our own skin and our own perception of ourselves. Told through present day and …
“So many girls dream of true love! So Fern once fell in love with Ambrose Young – an athlete, a school star and a real hottie. If you are a beloved gorgeous blonde like Rita, it’s easy to seduce him. However, if you are Fern – a skinny girl with rebellious red curls, braces and glasses with thick lenses, everything becomes not so simple … At …
Making Faces wasn’t on my TBR list by a long shot as I’d read it in 2014. So, while checking out the books I’d read by Harmon, I realized this novel which had affected me so deeply and helped me have a clearer perspective on life, hadn’t been reviewed. Can a book of this caliber possibly be better the second time around? Well, yes! Like before, I …
This book brought back so many memories of my own senior year of high school in 2002, and the story and characters pulled on my heartstrings. This was my first book by Amy Harmon but it will by no means be my last.
“making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.”
What the hell did I read?
When Ang recommended this one I was in two minds, especially after starting it and finding it a little strange those first 2 chapters.
Then Bam! I was hooked and couldn’t put it …
I love Harmon’s writing. I have loved almost everything with 5 star enthusiasm. This is more a 4 and a half star, I loved it but wasn’t as drawn in as I have been in her other novels. I loved Fern, oh sweet little Fern who is such a nerd. She made me laugh and cry and feel what all of us feel sometimes, that we are ugly and not enough. Ambrose …
Oh my heart! This book had all the emotion a reader could ask for. It was at times swoony and heart breaking and tender and hopeful. I ached for these characters, each with their own physical and emotional flaws. The characters captured my heart from the very beginning. The plot was so well developed and detailed I felt like I was watching a …
(Read May/2017)
Ebook – 5+ STARS!!
Audiobook – 5 STARS!
Near Perfection!
Having enjoyed many of Amy Harmon’s books, Making Faces was clearly on my radar. I knew I would read this book eventually, but my delay stemmed from too close a relationship with the content. Military service and PTSD are at the forefront of my marriage and I feared the …
Trying to read all of Amy Harmon’s work but it takes time. Her words are so poignant, her stories heartwrenching but hopeful, does that make sense? I’m always left with a little sadness but grateful for an astoundingly talented author work. I’m humbled!
Oh My Lordy…that was SPECTACULAR!!
Tomorrow, I’m starting a sugar-free lifestyle. A couple of hours ago, I thought this was going to be the toughest thing I’d ever faced. Boy, I feel like an absolute TWIT!! Listening to Making Faces really put my trivial little drama into perspective. I’m living, loving and leading the best life I could possibly …
One of my top favorite modern reads!
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Spanish & English Opinion
Este libro me hizo sentir un collage de emociones. Con cada personaje y cada vivencia experimenté sensaciones y el mensaje del libro es MUY bonito.
Es de esos libros a los cuales hay que entrarle sin más información, pero habla de los tipos de belleza, de cómo las percibimos y de aprovechas cada …
We’re lovers of angst, and this one is just beautiful. Grab some tissues and be ready to fall in love with everything about this title.
Pancakes or waffles?
Balloons or kites?
Sight or hearing?
There are times when I am an absolute mood reader. I was very much in the mood for a deeply emotional, break my heart, soul searching, thought provoking kind of read so I just knew this is the author to pick up when that mood strikes.
Now let’s get the religion aspect out of the way. I …