This book blew me away!! It was beautifully written and deeply moving, with a very powerful message about true beauty, silver linings, and second chances. A poignant and unconventional tale about heroism, courage, love, loss, friendship, and self-acceptance. surface - the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"

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. I think sometines a beautiful face is false advertising too, and too many of us don't take the time to look beneath the lid." Going in to this book, I thought I new what to expect. I new it had a military theme because I'd read the blurb and I thought I new what was going to happen. In my new book, Making Faces, I introduce you to Ambrose Young, a handsome, young, athlete who volunteers to serve his country and is injured in Iraq. This is a special story, and it's an important one. It's funny and romantic and heart-breaking. I hope my romance readers won't be turned off by Ambrose Young or his injuries, both emotional and physical. As you have guessed, Ambrose is on the wrestling team at school. He ends up being a star and wins a scholarship to go to college. But he has other plans. He talks 4 of his teammates so sign up for the military and that is what they do. They were in school when 9/11 happened and Ambrose wants to do something other than try to be a star for everyone.In their senior year, the year was 2001, and on September 11, their world was changed. Ambrose felt like he wanted to forge his own path, be his own man. So he convinced his four best friends to come along with him and they enlisted. And as so many of the young men who went off to war to defend our country, four of those young men did not come home. But Ambrose did. Except the Ambrose that came home was not the same man that left. His face was badly disfigured. But the changes were more than what you could see on the outside. Draw simple faces that show different moods and ask your little one to describe them . Are the faces happy, sad, or angry? There is so much more to the story that I've decided not to talk about in my review because I didn't know any more than I've told you at this point when I started reading and I absolutely loved the process of just watching the story unfold and not fully knowing what to expect. Just know that I do not have a single complaint about this book. Not one. Just trust me and read it. I promise you will not be disappointed.

This book will leave you with an egg sized blob of emotion in your throat, it's really beautiful. I'm sitting here writing this review trying to find something I didn't love about it and I can't. I love to feel and this book allowed me too.Fern has been reading romance books since she was young and she has been writing her own books in private for just as long. Only Bailey knows that she's trying to get a book deal, well until Ambrose finds out later on. As much as I loved Fern and Ambrose, Bailey was the very best part of this story. Bailey was so strong, so resolved to live his life to the very fullest. He was full of laughter, love and beauty. He was sweet, funny, and was exactly the person Fern needed in her life. I really agree with Fern’s mother and aunt. Fern and Bailey were brought into this world around the same time for each other. Then, she was giving Ambrose pep-talks about knowing how he felt, being insecure about his looks, because she went through the same thing. Like he will grow out of it or something. Give me a break. In a town when everyone knows each other and things don’t remain hidden for very long, Fern is love with Ambrose since she was a little kid and he helped her with a spider’s funeral. But Fern never thought that she could be pretty enough for him and so she kept her feelings secret.