Strange book. Written partly as a faux-true crime book, Sara's Face is about Jonathan Heat (a Michael Jackson expy if ever there was one, with a dash of Bowie for good measure) and a teenager named Sara, who has a tenuous grip on reality, a manipulative streak, destructive tendencies, and a deep dislike of her own appearance. Bad combination. From the start of the book, the reader knows that something terrible will happen, but not the specifics. I think that's supposed to add tension and mystery [...]

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Sara's face is a story that gets you to see the life of a girl who has identity problems. She's pretty, but she doesn't feel like the way she sees herself in the mirror is her true self, so she always wears a mask to hide behind it.Sara wants to become immortal, she wants to be famous, unforgettable, just like all the important and famous people that become legends. She says that they become so famous that they almost don't seem real, and that's what she wants.She also has some serious issues ab [...]

2,5/5Προσωπικά,η σύλληψη της ιδέας από τον συγγραφέα μου φάνηκε αρκετά ενδιαφέρουσα και πρωτότυπη. Τι τραγικές επιπτώσεις μπορεί να επιφέρει η ματαιοδοξία ενός ανθρώπου στη ζωή του; Ο εθισμός στις πλαστικές επεμβάσεις,με φανταστικό τόνο,αναφέρεται εντονότατα,όπως επίσης κα [...]

Read date: 2007 or '08.I remember thinking this was the most fucked up book I'd ever read in my life. Melvin Burgess has a way with words, that's for sure. He can turn a simple story into mystery and murder and he will hook you in from the very first page.

Sara's Face was an amazing book. I thought it was disturbing and twisted and beautiful all at the same time. I felt like I was actually reading about something that happened in real life and that was what made it so scary. I really enjoyed this book.

It's so creepy I love it !!

Reviewed by Dianna Geers for TeensReadTooJonathon Heat was a famous rock star who had his own compound, surgeons, and assistants. All of the things a rich and famous celebrity would have--and then some. In fact, due to so much cosmetic surgery and experimental procedures, somehow Jonathon's face was destroyed to the point that he wore a mask at all times. With his high celebrity status, wearing a mask became a widespread thing to do. There were all sorts of masks--some with snouts, some with rea [...]

Sara's FaceIf you struggle with your identity you aint seen nothing yet until you have read this book!This was a very gripping tale. It was a thriller mixed with comedy and it was just a very refreshing read!Sara is a girl who struggles with her face. She doesn't think she's pretty and she thinks she is fat. When everybody else is in love with her or jealous of how gorgeous she is. So when there is a "accident" with an iron and her face is scarred is her career of becoming the biggest thing the [...]

Sara's Face is a literary masterpiece. It had me turning pages faster than I could read. Melvin Burgess has created a world that is so believable, you can feel yourself slipping away as the story progresses.The novel starts out with a preface about the author's reason to document this fictional event that has happened. Through the course of this book, Burgess attempts to define what self image is. The whole novel reads in an eerie manner, and Sara's unique character keeps you guessing at what is [...]

This was disturbing, confusing and twisted, but it was oh so good! It's not the usual type of book I read (ahem--romance!) but it was fascinating--morbidly so! I just don't understand how the crazies always seem to find each other! It's like a special radar or something.Anyway, I was only supposed to read a couple of chapters to get started, but I just couldn't put it down. I had to know how it ended but then to tell you the truth, I ended up being almost as in the dark as I was in the beginning [...]

I am a big fan of Melvin Burgess. I think I would read anything by him. His novels always, no matter how strange and bizzare they might be, capture my imagination and take me on the ride of my life. For Sara's Face I had no idea of what really to expect because I did no research on it before buying it. I only knew it would be something different to what Ive read before. And I was right. I really enjoyed reading it. I really dont know where to begin in describing this story. All I can think of is [...]

Before reading this I had read 'Junk' by Melvin Burgess, which I enjoyed a lot more. Sara's face was alright, but certain parts really really freaked me out - it just wasn't what I was expecting. I think I will read it again as it was so long ago that I did read it, but the whole secretive and eerie elements in it really did put me off; if there is ever a film made of it I would probably give it a miss. But still, expertly written and very gripping.

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I didn't really know what this book was about because i got it for 2 euros and i never research shitis shit wasn't what i expected's suprisingly really good and weird.you should honestly check it out without knowing too much

I read this book a few years ago, but it's one that stood out in my mind, so I think I can remember enough to write a book review.First of all, Burgess writes this book in a documentary fashion. It seemed so real that every time I started reading it, I wanted to go look up on the internet and see if it was based on a true story. I've read four of Burgess's books, and they are all so absorbing I become borderline obsessed while reading them. I can't think of another author who writes in such a co [...]

The book had lots great moments as well has very graphic moments that were too detailed at times. The author Melvin Burgess, did an awesome job on showing the true side of Sarah. All her insecurities and deep thoughts that she thought about herself. She had convince herself that she wasn't ever good enough and had a dark side on how she wanted to become more "beautiful." The steps and support that she was getting for theses ideas were ridiculous and extremely harmful. Sarah best friend that she [...]

Im not sure I really liked thos book. The whole suggestive idea of it just seemed a little out of place a little obscure. I know that there is very few women out there that like the way that they look, that want to change something, if not everything about who we are, but having a complete face transplant, merely because you want to look pretty? Is that even a possibility. I doubt it very much. The whole concept of the book just seemed very out of this world and I think that a book that seems to [...]

Melvin Burgess is well-known for his young adult, social realist fiction since the publication of his novel Junk in 1996. Sara’s Face carries on this trend, with Burgess looking at the culture of celebrity and of beauty.I found Sara’s Face a very difficult book, not because I disliked it, not because it disturbed me, but precisely for the opposite reason: when I finished the book, I felt nothing. It’s not really the sort of book you want to walk away from feeling completely unaffected, but [...]

Sara's Face is one of those books that I come back to every few years to read again because it was so very memorable the first time I read it. It's one of those stories that I think about when I have nothing else to do, something that I'll pull out of my hat when someone asks me what my favorite books are.Sara should be, by the stereotypical standards, completely happy with her life. She's beautiful, she has a great boyfriend who loves her, and she has the social skills to rise to the top of the [...]

All I can say is that I enjoyed this book. It is very hard for me to explain. I did a video review on YT and that was all over the place. I can say that it reminds of me of Bram Stokers Drakula in how it was written and the setting (sort of).Sara goes to stay with a rock star named Johnathan, who has had numerous surgeries done on his face, just because, and because of all of them he has had done, his face literally collapses! He ends up wearing masks all the time to cover the gruesomeness of th [...]

El rostro de Sara me llamo la atención desde que lo vi [en el blog de Itzel Library] y una ves que leí la trama dije que definitivamente tenía que leerlo.La historia es tétrica y un tanto confusa, pero es lo que hace a este libro tan interesante.Sara es una chica poco común; es hermosa y talentosa a pesar de tener una personalidad un tanto extraña. Su sueño es ser famosa, pero no por lo que puede hacer si no por ser ella. Todo el libro es narrado por varios personajes que estuvieron “im [...]

I imagine the idea of the book either appeals to your morbid curiosity or not. Obviously it suckered me in. Why would someone repeatedly go under the knife to the point of losing their face? Why would they recruit someone else to make the exact same mistakes they did? How far would they go to fix what they'd done to themselves, particularly at the expense of someone else? And how much money would it take to buy your loyalty enough to look the other way while someone destroys another human being [...]

Wow. I loved this book! It was amazingly written, and had such a neat plot that it was so hard to put down I nearly cried every time I had to. Sara Carter wants to be a beautiful rockstar, just like Johnathan Heat. (The thing is, she's already beautiful. Sara has a mental problem where she looks in the mirror and says that it's not herself.)Johnathan Heat is the King of getting cosmetic surgery. He gets it all the time, until finally, the nerve endings in his face just won't attach anymore, and [...]

As a huge fan of Burgess' Smack aka Junk I have to say I was disappointed in this book. It has an interesting topic, and I was sufficiently intrigued and curious about what was going to happen to keep reading, but I found the characters to be unlikeable and difficult to relate to. I never could "get" Sara, and I found her to be annoying more than anything else. I also thought that the way the book was written to be a sort of true crime story puts the reader at a greater distance, and it was used [...]

I almost stopped reading in the first few pages, what with the F-words and scene of, and I quote, "boob adoration." I forced myself to continue because language was a problem in Smack/Junk too, and I persevered through that one to find one of the most definitive drug novels ever. I was similarly rewarded here, though on a whole different plane. Intense characters and a gripping plotline full of terror thanks to unparalleled, just-barely-plausible-sounding medical horrors. I actually felt cold wh [...]

Johnathan Eat is a rockstar obsessed with beauryt. So obsessed that he lost hhis face due to too many experimental surgeries. When he meets Sara, who'se face bears a striking resemblance to his lost one, he gets her to move into his mansion telling her he will pay for all her needs and surgeries. But Sara sonn learns that he has another thing in mind than just helping her!Once again, Melvin Burgess surprises us with a very weird novel! The telling is very surprising, Burgess speaking directly to [...]

Sarah Carter es una chica hermosa, talentosa ,dueña de una personalidad extraña, su única aspiración en esta vida es ser famosa, pero no por alguna cosa en la que se destaque sino por simplemente ser ella misma.Es narrado por diferentes personajes que cuentan desde su punto de vista los extraños comportamientos de Sarah, la historia comienza cuando conoce a Jonathon Heat una estrella de rock que se a hecho famoso por alterar su rostro, pero ya lo a alterado tantas veces que ya se a vuelto t [...]

Written to read like a documentary, Sara’s Face sometimes reads with sometimes eerie similarity to the reality bending World War Z (bloody brilliant book as well!). Burgess goes well beneath the surface of beauty obsession and fleshes out a more accurate psychological sketch of Sara, giving some insight to what may be going on inside the heads of some plastic surgery addicts. Suspense and horror readers will enjoy the main plot and the subplot ghost story of the girl whose facial flesh is miss [...]

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