Review: November 9 By Colleen Hoover
Title: November 9
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publication Date: November 10, 2015
Genre: New Adult
Format: Ebook
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Fallon meets
Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move.
Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in L.A.
together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always
sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and
tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same
date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling
her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate
plot twist.
“You’ll never
be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”
I love Colleen Hoover’s
books, even though I have only read three and two of those have been absolutely
beautiful, I’ve read, ‘Ugly Love’ and ‘Confess’ in which I enjoyed both so very
much, however ‘Ugly Love’ became one of my all-time favourite books. I however
did not enjoy ‘November 9’ as much as I wanted to. Maybe because I set high
expectations, but whatever it was I’m afraid to say I didn’t enjoy it as much
as I wanted to.
I was half way through
this book when I put it down for a while, and I don’t remember the reason why, I
think I was just bored with the story. This book did have a unique concept in
which, a writer and a girl he met, meet every year, once on the 9th
of November and with those meetings, the writer, Ben, will get inspired (or
something like that) in which her writes his novel.
I shove the dress back at him. “I don’t want to wear that, I want to
wear this.”
“No,” he says. “I’m paying for dinner, so I get to choose what to stare
at while we eat.”
I did not like Ben, I thought
he was too controlling and over bearing and I couldn’t bear to read another
sentence where he controls Fallon. I get that it was supposed to be sweet and
all but I just couldn’t with Ben, maybe it was because of how he was described but
I just didn’t like him.
Colleen Hoover’s new book titled, ‘It ends with us’ is
set to release on the 2nd of August and I am excited to read this, I’m
just hoping that the main character is not like Ben. There are people out there
who have enjoyed this book, and I’m sure that there will be many more, it’s
just that this book was not for me, if you like the concept of this book then
give it a go, form your own opinions and maybe you might just like it a hell of
a lot more than I did.
“I thought I
was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to
you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”
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