Face

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Having listened to (and loved) another of Zephaniah’s audiobooks (also narrated by Bailey Smith) I was really looking forward to this one, and I was not disappointed. The book however did tell more than show the reader the events which made the book a bit less enjoyable. While they seemed like they could have been more interesting it also seemed as though they were assigned one character trait and that was the whole basis of who they were. Face was okay, but it wasn’t Zephaniah’s best – it was a little too preachy, too much like a moral tale, and it took me a while to get into it.

And then there was the part where Zephaniah said it was a Friday, and in the following scene it was “the next day” and still Friday, somehow. I read this book as an adult and compulsorily, even though I would say it would be a great piece of reading for a teenager. I recommend to anyone because of how diverse it is and how easy it is to want to carry on finding out about the story and the characters.And although his old friends melted away from him, I was glad that Martin was able to make other friends. There’s a lot of feeling going on in this short read and he’s able to include positive messages at the end that everyone can relate and take notice from. When he finds out that his girlfriend and bestfriends had moved on, he realises that for some people life isn't always easy. This book is amazing and i would recommend it to 12-15 year olds, it has comedy, romance and lots more.

It was a good base but there wasn't a lot of depth in the characters, there was a lot of telling and not showing (which was the biggest problem in my opinion.

Being a short novel, I think everything was carefully played out and I very much enjoyed the contrast between what Martin had been before and after the accident.