This week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the contemporary romance novel, Making Faces by Amy Harmon. This book was published in October 2003 by CreateSpace Publishing and has a page count of 320 pages. The audiobook is read by Bob Shapiro and is 10 hours & 10 minutes in length. The following overview is provided from the B&N page: Ambrose Young was beautiful. The kind of beautiful that graced that 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.
This book is beautifully written. It’s a story of finding goodness when swallowed by a life of trauma and grief. Fern is easily my favorite character but the most admiration goes to Bailey. I highly recommend this to others.
I give this novel 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Tomorrow for the Missing Person Saturday feature, I am highlighting the missing person’s case of Pei Yen Sung. Next week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the romance Audible Original, The Best Worst Christmas by Kate Forster. Until then keep reading on; Nerd out!
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