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A review by oknazareth
Making Faces by Amy Harmon
4.0
I love you Bailey.
Yes, that's how I want to start this review. The first book I read by Harmon was A Different Blue. This is my third, and I always have to take a break after I finish them. This author knows how to get an emotion out of you, you can love and hate one character, cry with them and laugh too. I suppose being a good writer it's not about making people cry, but if you writing is beautiful and you also make my heart beat faster, then I'm sold.
This book has many thing I dislike, but I gave it 4 stars because it took me to a place in my life I had forgotten and one that I thought I'd moved on. It gave me the opportunity of revisit it, deal and accept.
What did I dislike?
1. Even though I could understand every character, I wish they were more developed, more soul and less thoughts.
2. Bailey deserved a better death. Yes! I know death is not pretty, it comes when you less expect it and doesn't leaves you with a good taste in your mouth. But after a life of limited choices, he could've died standing (metaphorically) and not helpless in the mud. He could've gone knowing his death was worth something, not that with his heart's last beatings the kid he was trying to save left with his crazy father.
3. What about the letters Fern wrote to Ambrose when he was in Iraq? Dude you don't put something in a book just to leave it there.
I would say that Fern needed to grow up, that the love between her and Ambrose should've been less childlike. I could complain about Ambrose convincing his friends to go to war. BUT I won't, because that's life. Not a single one of us is like the other, I love that about this writer, she just put it there whether you like it or not.
What I loved?
1. Bailey, his attitude towards life and death, his charm and charisma, his energy and love, his blunt deliveries and sense of humor. This particular topic, disability, the author excelled.
2. God. How absolutely clueless we are in life, how insignificant our choices seem. Everything has purpose and consequences. You choose what name to put it -karma, fate, destiny, life-, I believe in God higher plans. If you read this book and you feel forced in any way to believe, check yourself. It's just a book, like many others you've read.
I love this book and loved how it made me feel.
Yes, that's how I want to start this review. The first book I read by Harmon was A Different Blue. This is my third, and I always have to take a break after I finish them. This author knows how to get an emotion out of you, you can love and hate one character, cry with them and laugh too. I suppose being a good writer it's not about making people cry, but if you writing is beautiful and you also make my heart beat faster, then I'm sold.
This book has many thing I dislike, but I gave it 4 stars because it took me to a place in my life I had forgotten and one that I thought I'd moved on. It gave me the opportunity of revisit it, deal and accept.
What did I dislike?
1. Even though I could understand every character, I wish they were more developed, more soul and less thoughts.
2. Bailey deserved a better death. Yes! I know death is not pretty, it comes when you less expect it and doesn't leaves you with a good taste in your mouth. But after a life of limited choices, he could've died standing (metaphorically) and not helpless in the mud. He could've gone knowing his death was worth something, not that with his heart's last beatings the kid he was trying to save left with his crazy father.
3. What about the letters Fern wrote to Ambrose when he was in Iraq? Dude you don't put something in a book just to leave it there.
I would say that Fern needed to grow up, that the love between her and Ambrose should've been less childlike. I could complain about Ambrose convincing his friends to go to war. BUT I won't, because that's life. Not a single one of us is like the other, I love that about this writer, she just put it there whether you like it or not.
What I loved?
1. Bailey, his attitude towards life and death, his charm and charisma, his energy and love, his blunt deliveries and sense of humor. This particular topic, disability, the author excelled.
2. God. How absolutely clueless we are in life, how insignificant our choices seem. Everything has purpose and consequences. You choose what name to put it -karma, fate, destiny, life-, I believe in God higher plans. If you read this book and you feel forced in any way to believe, check yourself. It's just a book, like many others you've read.
I love this book and loved how it made me feel.