Fern was in love with Ambrose long before the book started. She loved him this vanilla-baby-love. She always looked at him with those big puppy-eyes. And it was fine, when she was younger, but when she got older, that little girl crush just felt weird. So in this book I loved many characters but my favorites were Fern, Bailey and Ambrose. Fern and Bailey are cousins who live next door to each other. Bailey has muscular dystropy and Fern helps him in anything he needs. They are wonderful characters and funny and smart and dorks and I loved them. I wanted to be their best friend. Yes, I say that a lot in books! I get really involved in my books and the characters. Don't judge me! Sorrow and joy, pain and love, all of them are interwined in Making Faces. For there can be no pain and sorrow if you haven't experienced love and joy. That's what Amy Harmon tries to tell, through her deeply endearing characters, the tragedies and the small and big moments of carelessness. Making Faces is not about one love story. It's about many love stories, for love is endless. When I read this book, with reverence, with passion and compassion, I was not Katerina. I was Ambrose. Fern. Bailey. Rita. A mother mourning for her son. A pastor consoling his fold. A town burying her children. All that I was, all that I am, simply ceased to be. Amy Harmon shaped and reshaped me, poured her heart out on my empty canvas, and when my cheeks were wet and my heart slowly shattering, she wiped my tears with a tender caress and sang with a soft voice.

Don't be put off because you may feel while reading it. Sometimes, that is what called for in our lives... here's to feeling without reserve. This story is so much more than it's description and the characters are the type that stay will you forever.It's an emotional story about friendship, courage and unconditional love... But also death, war and trauma. Making Faces” is a romance novel set in present day Hannah Lake, Pennsylvania. Fern Taylor really like Ambrose but Ambrose only made jokes about about her looks. When Ambrose and his 4 best friends were sent to Iraq, a tragic deed was done. There vehicle was blown up and ended up killing everyone except for Ambrose. Fern was terrified because when she got the news she didn't know what had happened to him and in all that had happened she still loved him.He was okay but was scared inside and out, half of his body was burnt and rough. When Fern approached him so passionately he felt as if he was not good enough for her and she was doing it out of pity. But in time her learned to love her as much, if not more, than she had loved him all those years.

They had long tired faces. Their yawns, snapping and unsnapping their jaws, made them look like horses —Boris Pasternak The characters crawled into my heart, the plot touched my soul and the writing left me speechless. GO READ IT!!! 👑Talk about an amazing book at its most extreme! This book is a rare gem. You know it's crafted to tear your heart into a million pieces but you still read it anyways 'coz it's beautifully written and heartfelt! Bailey has a disease. It makes his muscles weak. It might kill him. He doesn't like it when things die. It's hard for him," Fern said simply, honestly. She actually sounded kinda smart. Suddenly, the events at the wrestling camp earlier that summer made sense to Ambrose. Bailey wasn't supposed to wrestle because he had a disease. Ambrose felt bad all over again. and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies can't contain it." As our Face Template is an outline, children will have to fill it in by drawing their hair, eye-brows, eyes, nose, and mouth. If they wear earrings or glasses, then these items could also be included.

The writing had me continuously highlighting quote after quote. The story brought smiles and tears and I dare a reader not to FEEL when they read this story. A face in many planes, as if the carver had whittled and modelled and indented to see how far he could go —Willa Cather They assist Bailey’s dad Coach Sheen with his wrestling stuff and that’s how they grow up with Ambrose Young. Ambrose is a superstar in the wrestling world as well as hot stuff around the school.

I can't believe I haven't read it sooner. Amy Harmon is such a genius and a talented author and I knew it just by reading the first few paragraphs of the book. She did a wonderful job in this novel because of the way she chose words that absolutely hit home. All throughout the book I found myself hanging on to every word because I'm afraid I'll be missing out a tiny detail.