It is a book about learning to love yourself again, getting on with your life and adapting to the challenges of life. Wynter Moore was just four years old when she witnessed the murder of her mother. Maisie is such a strong character who I really admire for her strength, determination, courage all to face the world each and every day.įaceless isn’t just a book about a girl who is a victim of a serious accident. Faceless by Alexandra Ivy Book 2 - Pike, Wisconsin Synopsis BE CAREFUL A masked robber, a gunshot, an endless nightmare left in its wake. However, I feel that she could have developed a couple of the characters a little more. Sheinmel has written this book beautifully, she makes you want to be friends with the characters in this book. It is an emotionally challenging book that will certainly have you thinking about life in a different way after you have finished it.Īlyssa B.
#FACELESS BOOK FULL#
It is full of ups and downs and has some huge moments of drama.
This book captures you right away, so much so that I did not want to put it down. After just one chapter you dive straight into Maisie being in hospital, learning what has happened, why she is there and the damage her accident has caused. The minute I read the synopsis of this book I wanted to know more. Maisie’s left cheek, nose and most of her chin are destroyed, the tissues so badly damaged they were killed in the fire, a fire that was so hot it burned blue. The left side of her body taking some damage, but her face taking the most. Lightening strikes a tree next to her which in turn causes a branch to fall, pulling some electrical wires down with it and resulting in horrific burns on most of Maisie’s body. Scholastic Press, 2020.Whilst out running early one morning Maisie is the victim of a terrible accident. In Faceless, Sheinmel asks how much of yourself can you lose while still being the same person you were before? What makes you you, your body or your soul, and how can the physical alteration of your body complicate these matters?įaceless by Alyssa Sheinmel. She worries about being “a living, breathing ghost,” worries that her donor’s family will see her “walking around with a dead person’s face.” Once she gets home from the hospital, she has nightmares that make her wake up screaming and crying but she dreams of her donor’s accident, not her own. Maisie, when in the hospital thinking about whether or not she wants a face transplant, says, “ I never thought there was such a thing as a list of names, people waiting for new faces. She avoids reflective surfaces and despises the immunosuppressive drugs she has to take for making her weak and tired, even though they are saving her life.įaceless shows readers the damage that traumatic accidents can do to one’s psyche-in particular, how bittersweet it feels to be the recipient of a life-changing transplant, and how it feels to lose a part of yourself. Instead, some of her first concerns are whether or not she will be pretty, or whether she will be able to get a boyfriend, or new friends, whether she’ll be able to run as fast as she did when she was on the track team. Despite all of the physical consequences of her accident, it is the emotional and social consequences that Sheinmel focuses on most, which gives the story an interesting angle.īeing a teenager, Maisie isn’t as concerned about whether she will be healthy eventually, or be able to function normally. Maisie’s new face, new attitude, and (because of her immunosuppressive drugs), new personality, alienate her friends, boyfriend, parents, and even herself. But when Maisie is released from the hospital, she has trouble adjusting to seeing a new face in the mirror. To try to help her live a normal life, the doctors perform a face transplant on her. She sustains second-degree burns across her left side, and her face is partially destroyed. Next month sees the release of Faceless, an extraordinary and captivating tale of identity, love and. The protagonist, high school senior Maisie Winters, is out for a run when she nearly dies in an electrical fire. Alyssa Sheinmel’s novel Faceless does a remarkable job of portraying the psychological problems involved in the aftermath of a traumatic accident.
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