Making Faces by Amy Harmon

"I understand holes.  This last year I've felt like one of those snowflakes we used to make in school.  The ones where you fold the paper a certain way and then keep cutting and cutting until the paper is shredded.  That's what I look like, a paper snowflake.  And each hole has a name.  And nobody, not you, not me, can fill the holes that someone else has left. All we can do is keep each other from falling in the holes and never coming out again."

Making Faces is a new adult romance written by Amy Harmon. I generally avoid this genre, but this one came so highly recommended by several book reviewers that I finally gave in and read it.

It was very very sweet, with a young love flavor. Inspirational in a way that the reader will carry away many encouraging words after reading it. And sad in a way that isn't just brushed off after you're done and it's back on the shelf. It's about heroes and living when it would be a lot easier not to. 

There is no smut at all in the book, she's a pastor's daughter and he is all about wrestling, but their love story goes above simple smut and slap and tickle. 

Synopsis:
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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