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  • By: Amy Harmon
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Making Faces

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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 13. 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.

©2013 Amy Harmon (P)2014 Tantor

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Don't think about it READ IT!!!

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I finished this book early this morning while getting ready for work, however it has taken me this long to write a review as I don't think I have enough words to describe this beautiful book.

I think this is probably one of the best books I have read this year, and that is a very high accolade!

I wasn't too sure when I first turned on my audible app and started the book, but by about 10 minutes in I was hooked and a little bit in love ♡♡

This book had everything for me, love, hate, surprise, confusion and heartache.

If you have read the blurb of the book then you do not want me to give you another synopsis, and I don’t want to go on about too much in the book and spoil it for you, so just buy, beg or steal the book and read it ASAP.

A huge 6 ☆ and straight onto my favourite’s shelf

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Touching, enjoyable tale

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I initially thought 'not another Cyrano De Bergerac retelling, please' but the author alludes to that comparison and swiftly moves on from the letter writing device to tell a story woven with believable main characters and home truths about their flaws and strengths. Sad, touching and hopeful in turn, I enjoyed this book immensely.

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Some very good elements to this book

I liked this book, but I didn’t like it. I thought that the characterisation of the Bayley character was particularly strong. Overall, however, I felt it would’ve benefited from much stronger editing.

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wise and insightful

Beautiful story, beautifully read. Well worth reading. It may perhaps seem like women's fiction but any thoughtful man will benefit from reading it.

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Just beautiful

I read this book years ago and really enjoyed it, but in the years that have pasted I’ve faced unimaginable loss personally and weirdly listening to it now as an audiobook has given me a far greater appreciation of just beautifully this book deals with loss in its many forms and the impact on those affected. The narration is just wonderful and brought this book to life… it’s just left me wondering why had this amazing story never been adapted to a screen play or film !!

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Just read it now

What a heartwarming, heartbreaking, emotional story. Thank you Amy that was amazing and I think many of us have a Bailey sized whole in us now

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Perfect narration

Having read this book at least 6 times before, listening to it added another layer. Loved loved loved it

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Fantastic Story

I absolutely loved this story from beginning to end. It captured my imagination and I truly felt I was there with the characters.
The story is so moving, beautifully written and I just didn't want to stop listening.
It is well narrated and told with real emotion.
I can't recommend it highly enough.

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Such a beautiful story

Made me cry and gave me hope. Such heartwarming words that I'll keep with me for a long time

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Beautiful book , could not put it down xx

How beautiful this story is , I have my own war torn hero , I like to think of myself as fern , you have to be a special kind of angel to look after a hero xxxx

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