Synopsis: from Goodreads
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.
My Thoughts:
Heartbreaking and swoon-worthy at the same time. This doesn't just tackle “romantic” love. It talks about love in all its aspects. Friendship, family, God, special someone. It’s all about life and its irony and how to deal with it.
Favorite Character:
Bailey is my favorite character here. His unfortunate situation made him the great person he was. He looked at life in its positive side. He was the brighter side of this book. He made people around him realized that if life stole something from you, smile… And you’re the one who stole something from life.
Favorite Line:
Well, for a romance book like this, you’ll think my favorite line would be lines that made me swoon. Ambrose and Fern are such a lovely star-crossed lover and I soooo love them. But, my favorite line came from Bailey, Fern’s cousin and best friend.
“Fern didn't think she was good enough for you then, and you don't think you're good enough for her now. And both of you are wrong . . . and so stupid! Stuuupiiiid!” Bailey dragged the word out in disgust. “I'm ugly! I'm not worthy of love, waaa!””
I so feel Bailey here while reading the book because seriously, Ambrose and Fern? Stop whining about your looks and just love each other. I was really imagining him saying this, preaching to Ambrose and making him realize that love is not about the beauty outside, but the beauty found inside.
Favorite quotation:
This quote pretty much sums up the whole book.
“True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes pressure. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that makes the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smoothes the rough edges.
And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would otherwise never exist.
“And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe that there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies can't contain it.”
What this book has taught me:
1. Life is a total shit. But we all experience shits in life. We don’t get to choose what shit would bug our life or when will it happen. But all these craps are blessings in disguise because it will teach us lessons and eventually help us to be a grown-up person.
2. We won’t experience happiness if we won’t experience sadness. We won’t feel hope if we won’t feel grief. Life always has two sides. One cannot be experienced without the other.
It’s my first time to read an Amy Harmon novel and I’m impressed by how she writes. The POV is in third person but the emotions by the characters are still there and are felt through the bones. Sheezzzz. The FEELSSS are just extreme at this moment I am writing this review. Hahaha. And by the way, every chapter of this book has titles. It makes sense, of course. But at the last 2 or 3 chapters, the titles made more sense which makes me continuously nod for like 10 seconds upon reading it. So for my rating, I'm giving this book 5 of 5 stars. *throws confetti*
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