Making Faces
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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.
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I love her so much. I thought if I just kept loving her, she would love me back. I thought I had enough love for both of us.
This was a surprise. A happy one. [a:Amy Harmon 5829056 Amy Harmon https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1341709289p2/5829056.jpg] has written a solid and sensitive story about life. There is a religious or rather spiritual subtext, but I didn't feel like I was being preached at, which I appreciate, since it's not my speed. What I did love were the principals: Fern, Bailey and Ambrose, whom we follow from childhood to early adulthood, and through them the ups and downs of ordinary lives. I did this as an audio by [a:Rob Shapiro 2887475 Rob Shapiro https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] and I was blown away. I wouldn't recommend much listening in public as ugly crying is a distinct possibility.
