Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Faceless

Alyssa Sheinmel

When Maisie is struck by lightning, her face is partially destroyed. She's lucky enough to get a face transplant, but how do you live your life when you can't even recognize yourself any more? She was a runner, a girlfriend, a good student ... a normal girl. Now, after a single freak accident, all that has changed. As Maisie discovers how much her looks did and didn't shape her relationship to the world, she has to redefine her own identity, and figure out what 'lucky' really means.

Flavia Louise

This is one of the books that has been on my Goodreads TBR the longest and I've owned it for about a year. Still I was a little bit hesitant going into it because it aligns with the interests of past me better than the ones of present me. 
This story was very interesting and at points hard to read. It talked about some really hard topics but the thing is that I really wish that I'd read it when I first put it on my TBR because I know it would have probably been 5 stars back then.

Maisie is a normal sixteen-year-old, until an electrical fire caused by a lightning strike leaves her with severe burns, her face partially destroyed--she is lucky enough to get a full face transplant but she soon discovers how much her looks shaped her own identity and her relationship with those around her, including her boyfriend.

Samantha Shepherd 

I went through so many emotions reading this book. It is beautiful 💛

Lynn Braden

If you want a really good tear-jerker, then this book fits the bill. Maisie wakes up in the hospital after being severely burned by a lightning strike while she was out for a run. She soon has a surgical procedure to transplant parts of her face that had to be removed because they couldn't be saved. The story traces Maisie's struggle to come to terms with not only a new face, but also the entirely new life that comes with it. Her friends and family treat her differently now, and she can't do the things she has always loved making her want to escape to a place where noone knew what she looked like "before."

This is a well-written, realistic story about what happens to people when tragedy leaves them "lucky" to be alive but with huge obstacles to overcome.

Faceless

Reviews