Faceless by Alyssa B. SheinmelMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
When Maisie Winters wakes up, she’s in the hospital.
The last thing she remembers is running through the hills of her neighborhood one misty morning. Slowly, she puts the pieces together. Before she could make it home, a storm gathered. Lightning hit a power line and sparks rained down, the hot-burning electrical fire consuming her. Destroying her face. Where her nose, cheeks, and chin used to be, now there is…nothing.
Maisie’s lucky enough to qualify for a rare medical treatment: a face transplant. At least, everyone says she’s lucky. But with someone else’s features staring back at her in the mirror, Maisie looks—and feels—like a stranger. The doctors promised that the transplant was her chance to live a normal life again, but nothing feels normal anymore. Before, she knew who she was—a regular girl who ran track and got good grades, who loved her boyfriend and her best friend. Now, she can’t even recognize herself.
New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Sheinmel has created a gripping and gorgeously written tale of identity and love. This is a story of losing yourself and the long, hard fight to find your way back
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This book is just heartbreaking and powerful and had me in tears so many times. It's about identity and self-worth and healing and growing up. But it's also about so much more.
Maisie is hit by an electrical storm and loses most of her face. She's given an experimental face transplant, and this book is about her journey after this. We see her going through an array of emotions and battles as she struggles to cope with a life-changing event such as this. It reminded me a lot of Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart--which has a similar theme.
We see Maisie as her sense of self-worth is shattered and we see her break up with the boyfriend who waited nearly a year to see her after the accident. She didn't feel like she was the same person anymore and therefore decided they wouldn't work together. Although I've not been through anything like that, I've experienced thoughts like this at times where I feel betrayed by my body in how it determines the things I do and affects my confidence. It's made me question whether I can have relationships with others so many times--and this book was so relatable because of this.
The writing itself is great--as I knew it would be because I loved the other book I read by this author. And this book is just as deep. Just as emotional. Just as powerful.
I really recommend it.
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This book is just heartbreaking and powerful and had me in tears so many times. It's about identity and self-worth and healing and growing up. But it's also about so much more.
Maisie is hit by an electrical storm and loses most of her face. She's given an experimental face transplant, and this book is about her journey after this. We see her going through an array of emotions and battles as she struggles to cope with a life-changing event such as this. It reminded me a lot of Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart--which has a similar theme.
We see Maisie as her sense of self-worth is shattered and we see her break up with the boyfriend who waited nearly a year to see her after the accident. She didn't feel like she was the same person anymore and therefore decided they wouldn't work together. Although I've not been through anything like that, I've experienced thoughts like this at times where I feel betrayed by my body in how it determines the things I do and affects my confidence. It's made me question whether I can have relationships with others so many times--and this book was so relatable because of this.
The writing itself is great--as I knew it would be because I loved the other book I read by this author. And this book is just as deep. Just as emotional. Just as powerful.
I really recommend it.
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