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November 9 by Colleen Hoover
4.0
***All ratings are out of 5, with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest.
Main Character: 5 (for both MCs)
Plot: 4 (I felt like the subplot at the end was kind of unnecessary)
Romance/Love: 5
Angst: 1 (it was very short, not that it wasn't worthwhile)
Instalove/instalust: 1 (I have to put this here because the books I've read from Colleen marked high for this, but this book's the opposite. I felt sparks and saw how they naturally grew into each other (I do admit it was still quicker than I'd liked))
Likes: their relationship! Out of the few Colleen Hoover books I've read, this couple is the greenest and cutest and has one of the healthiest relationships. The MCs' dialogues are some of the best I've read.
Dislikes: n/a
Memorable Scene(s): When Fallon makes the "connection."
Memorable Quote(s):
Additional comments:
It.
Just.
Sums.
Things.
Up.
Too.
Easily.
But for this one, I felt that Colleen should've brought it up a notch. Instead of Ben giving Fallon his manuscript or whatever, he should've become a famous bookseller with that manuscript-turned-novel a few years later, making Fallon read the book in some way, and they both slowly heal each other again as they rekindled.
But the ending we got is also good too despite my above comment, hehe.
Main Character: 5 (for both MCs)
Plot: 4 (I felt like the subplot at the end was kind of unnecessary)
Romance/Love: 5
Angst: 1 (it was very short, not that it wasn't worthwhile)
Instalove/instalust: 1 (I have to put this here because the books I've read from Colleen marked high for this, but this book's the opposite. I felt sparks and saw how they naturally grew into each other (I do admit it was still quicker than I'd liked))
Likes: their relationship! Out of the few Colleen Hoover books I've read, this couple is the greenest and cutest and has one of the healthiest relationships. The MCs' dialogues are some of the best I've read.
Dislikes: n/a
Memorable Scene(s): When Fallon makes the "connection."
Memorable Quote(s):
"You'll never be able to find yourself if you're lost in someone else." (pg. 38)
"I could never drive a motorcycle, or fight another man just for fun. And as much as I've fantasized about having sex with you this year, I don't think I could ever say, 'I own you,' with a straight face. And I've always wanted a tattoo, but probably just a small one, because no way in hell I could endure the pain. Overall, the books were interesting but they also made me feel highly inadequate."
She "loved me" in quotations / She kissed me in bold / I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps / She left with an ellipsis...
"It took four years for me to fall in love with him. / It only took four pages to stop."
Additional comments:
Spoiler
I love happy endings. But I also appreciate a good bad ending. And with a unique story like this one, I was hoping for a sad, angsty ending because I felt that would've been a bit more appropriate. By sad, angsty ending, I mean one where they both mature and move on from their lives (no, not an open ending--I hate those), become successful, and then rekindle again. Hmm, as I'm writing this, it's starting to sound like a second-chance love, and I guess that doesn't sound too bad because this and Colleen's other book, Reminders of Him, utilized the same redemption technique in the form of a manuscript (I'm team manuscript if you get my second reference, lol). Heads-up, I hated that RoH used that, and that's the same for Nov. 9.It.
Just.
Sums.
Things.
Up.
Too.
Easily.
But for this one, I felt that Colleen should've brought it up a notch. Instead of Ben giving Fallon his manuscript or whatever, he should've become a famous bookseller with that manuscript-turned-novel a few years later, making Fallon read the book in some way, and they both slowly heal each other again as they rekindled.
But the ending we got is also good too despite my above comment, hehe.