Face

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He lives in the 'new East End' where there is a difficult brew of white, Caribbean, African and Asian families. The holidays have started, he’s got a gorgeous girlfriend and everyone agrees he’s the coolest dancer around.

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. The writing itself felt a bit flat and dragged on in places, and sometimes I had trouble picking it up.Face by Benjamin Zephaniah is an interesting, compelling and emotional story that tackles social problems about physical disfigurement. When he finds out that his girlfriend and bestfriends had moved on, he realises that for some people life isn't always easy. I thought that they were interesting and unique characters and I would have loved to learn more about them. Overall Face is a very good book I would recommend to anyone who wants to read a moving story that’s stand up against social norms. Benjamin Zephaniah and Richard Conlon deal with issues such as prejudice, drugs and disfigurement in this vibrant, gritty adaptation of Zephaniah’s bestselling novel for young people.

I did go into reading this book thinking purely about students/ya reading this but a few chapters in and I was hooked and read it for my own enjoyment and forgot about reading it to recommend.I just read it, then at the end, when I found out it was Benjamin Z and he was only 'up the road' in Birmingham, I loved it more. 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.