Making Faces

by Amy Harmon

• ISBN10: 1492976423
• ISBN13: 9781492976424
• Publish Date: 20 October 2013
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Language: English

Reviews

[stacey_is_sassy]

Oh My Lordy…that was SPECTACULAR!!

Tomorrow, I’m starting a sugar-free lifestyle. A couple of hours ago, I thought this was going to be the toughest thing I’d ever faced. Boy, I feel like an absolute TWIT!! Listening to Making Faces really put my trivial little drama into perspective. I’m living, loving and leading the best life I could possibly lead. I have a loving family, good health and a job I enjoy. I’m not in a wheelchair. I have not lost loved ones due to war. I have never felt ugly. There is a lot I need to be thankful for and every tear that I shed listening to this story will be a reminder to make the best of all the good in my life.

A lot of people raved about Making Faces and silly old me nodded my head and thought that maybe it was all hype. HECK NO!! This is by far one of the BEST BOOKS I’VE EVER EXPERIENCED!! Bloody Hell!! Between Amy Harmon’s writing and Rob Shapiro’s narrating, it was one of the BEST experiences I’ve ever had in my romance reading life. AND, there wasn’t even a sex scene. 😉

Making Faces isn’t just a hero and heroine meeting and falling in love. This is about familial love, dedicated friends making pacts and making decisions that end up ruining your life. I cried, lordy, how I cried, listening to this amazing story. My family was again faced with an emotional wreck who insisted on telling them why her story was so bloody brilliant. I’m convinced that my 15-year-old son should listen and experience the goodness. Every bloody 15-year-old should experience the beauty of Making Faces. Maybe, they will come to appreciate their good fortune and acknowledge that they have it pretty damn good.

I’m going to give up on reviewing this masterpiece. I’m still shaking, my eyes are puffy from crying and I know that I’m jibber jabbering about everything.

All I can say is, THANK YOU, Amy Harmon and Rob Shapiro. Amy, your words were magic and I’m grateful that I got to experience them. Rob, WOW!! You are a master. One of the best audio’s I’ve ever listened to.

Making Faces if you haven’t experienced it yet…DO IT!!

[Sam@WLABB]

So, I survived my first Amy Harmon book, and wow! What an emotional ride it was. I knew this book would hit me in the feels, but I actually sobbed a few times when reading this.

I used to be able to see the tops of the Towers from my Main Street, and after 9/11, I watched the smoke rise. The scene, where they are watching the planes hit the towers really brought it all back to me, and yes, there was sobbing for all the people we knew, who lost their lives that day.

This book was packed with tragedy. There were buckets of tears, but there was also these beautiful stories of survival. Stories of accepting one's "new norm", not forgetting the loved ones we lost, coming to the understanding that having them and losing them was better, than never having them in our lives at all.

It was about friendship, family, and love. A love that allows you to see beyond the surface into the heart of a person. It was about resilience and tapping that inner strength when we need it most.

Yeah, it was a sob-fest for me, but I was rewarded with a very lovely ending, and I smiled, widely, when I read the ESPN interviews with Ambrose.

*ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.

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[Bianca]

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.

[Cocktails and Books]

Such an amazing story. Definitely have your kleenex handy. Ambrose, Fern and Bailey will make you cry.

[leelu92]

5 stars. No brainer.
I don’t know how I could write a review for this book that would do it justice. Historically speaking, Amy Harmon has a tendency to leave me sputtering, but in a good way of course.

*Deep breath*

Ok, some history first. I read Ms. Harmon’s book Running Barefoot in January. I stumbled upon it, I don’t even know how I found it and it was free on Amazon. That freaking book rocked my world and to this day, I remember feeling like I was floating around in a bubble as I read it. It just sucked me in. I fell in love with that book and with Amy Harmon too.

So, next book, A Different Blue comes out and it kicked my ass too. Both of those books are 5 stars and on my Best of 2013 list.

This book? Also 5 stars and on my Best of 2013. I don’t know that I can put how I felt into words. I will say that I cried when I finished this book. I sat on the sofa and cried because I finished it and because it was so good and I didn’t know what to do with myself.

Ms. Harmon weaves stories with silken threads and never fails to pulls me right in. I loved Fern, Bailey and Ambrose and my heart ached for each one.

For Bailey who was fighting so hard to live as full of a life as he could despite the cards he was dealt.

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