What to say about this book?? AMAZING!! WONDERFUL!! HEARTBREAKING!! A MASTERPIECE!! Colleen Hoover has done it once again. How she is able to come up with these stories and plots is beyond me but she is amazing. Below will be my full review, WHICH WILL HAVE SPOLIERS!!!! So if you have not read this book yet, do not continue. Go get the book, read it, and then come back to read my review. I will break down the book and talk about certain parts and then I will give my thoughts and opinions. (Yes, those are all my notes I took while I was reading. I don't like to write in books.) Collen Hoover! What have you done to me with this book. Words cannot even express how much I loved this book and how much this boook touched my heart.
***SPOLIERS AHEAD*** In this book you meet Fallon and Ben. They meet randomly on November 9th but as you will come to findout, November 9th has such a deeper connection to the story than I would have ever imagined. 1st November 9th: Fallon and Ben are 18 when they first meet in a diner. Fallon is having luch with her father, its the anniversry of the fire that scared her, and it is not going well. Ben decides to step in and give her a hand, which seemed strange to Fallon at first but she welcomed the distraction. As you read you learn that Fallon was an actress but was in a terrible fire and lost her career due to burns on her body. You learn that Ben is a writer and a college student. Fallon and Ben have this instant connection but the problem is Fallon is moving to New York that night. Fallons mother had told her not to fall in love till you are 23 because "You'll never be able to find yourself if you're lost in someone else." Fallon has not been comfortable with her body since the fire but Ben is trying to push her out of her comfort zone on the first day they meet. She doesn't understand why he is doing that but for some reason she feels comfortable with him so she is going to try. Ben tells her that her scars are beautiful. Fallon tells Ben "One of the things I always try to remind myself is that everyone has scars. A lot of them even worse than mine. The only differenceis that mine are visible and most people's aren't." We soon learn that Ben is hiding a secret but we have no idea what it is (and when we find out, WOW). Fallon loves romance novels and tells Ben "If we're going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy" and he is determined to do that. They do end up kissing and then Ben drove Fallon to the airport to catch her flight. They made a plan to meet every November 9th for the next 5 years until they are 23. They will not communicate during the year in order to be able to consintrate on their goals. They give each other different things to do during the year and then they will talk about them the next time they meet. 2nd November 9th: Fallon and Ben had agreed to meet at that same diner at a certain time but Fallon's plane was delayed and they ended up meeting at Ben's house. From the moment they saw each other again, the sexual tension was insane. They were trying to catch up on the past year but had a limited amount of time because Fallon had to leave that evening to head back to New York for work. Ben tells Fallon he is writing their story and that the female in the book has scars like Fallon does. Fallon tells him she doesn't understand how you can write a character to be beautiful if she has scars. Ben tells her that she is beautful and her scars are part of her. They can't fight the sexual tension anymore. Fallon is nervous because noone has touched her since she got her scars, actually noone has ever touched her. But Ben makes her feel so comfortable. They get interrupted and Fallon meets Ben's brothers. She can tell that his brother Kyle is not happy about something but has no idea what it is. Next thing you know, Kyle is yelling at Ben and then punches him in the face. After things calm down and Fallon and Ben leave the house and Ben decides to get a tattoo, the word poetic across is wrist. She has no idea what it means (but she will findout later). They decide to meet in New York next year for their November 9th date. On her way back to New York, Fallon decides she is falling for Ben. 3rd November 9th: Fallon was waiting for Ben in New York but Ben never showed up. He called and told her his brother Kyle had died and that they would have to meet next year. Fallon was upset, not only for Ben but because she had been waiting all year to see Ben and that wasn't going to happen. Ben was tryingn to be strong for his family. Kyle's wife was pregant and he needed to stay strong her her, What he wasn't expecting was for Fallon to show up at his house hours later. She had caught the next flight she could and flew out to California. She leaves first thing the next morning but they had the night to be together, and be together they were. "I don't want to be your first. Fallon. I want to be your last." Fallon learns that Jordyn wants to stay in the house even though Kyle is gone. She knows she cannot let Ben move to New York like he told her he wanted to do because he needs to be here to help raise Kyle's baby, Ben is emotional and is not thinking straight so Fallon decides she has to make a hard decision and leave. She says she will meet him next year but Ben doesn't understand how she can leave him. If she truly loves him, she will stay but she knows that she needs to leave for Ben to be able to heal. 4th November 9th: Fallon was nervous to see Ben again after how she left things last year. She ended up moving back to L.A. for work. When Ben shows up, he's not alone, he has his nehpew Oliver with him. They start talking and catching up but Fallon realizes that he said "we" when referring to him and Jordyn, and she makes the connection that they are a couple. She can't handle it. Ben wants to explain, he didn't realize she cared so much and him and Jordyn just kind of happened. Fallon tells him she wants to end the deal. She wants to be done meeting on November 9th. She tells him she moved back and he wants to know if it was for him, if she loves him. She says she has to walk away because he loves someone else and she cannot break up a family. 5th November 9th: Amber convences Fallon to go out tonight insteadof sitting at home alone. Fallon is at the bar and Ben shows up. He ends up telling her that he has been looking for her all day and that him and Jordyn realized that they were not meant to be with each other. He tells her he loves her and she ends up going home with him. While at his apartment, she finds his manuscript of the book he's writing. She just looks throught the pages until she sees the page that explain the fight between Ben and Kyle years ago. As she reads, she is shocked to see the words that are written on the page. The words say that Ben started the fire years ago. But how can that be true. She decides to read more, she has to know what happened. The more she reads, the more upset she becomes. Ben did start the fire. HOW? WHY? Not only is Fallon upset, she is pissed. How could Ben lie to her like that? How could he keep that secret from her? Ben wakes up and realizes what she just read. Fallon leaves, not giving Ben a chance to explain. "It took four years for me to fall in love with him. It only took four pages to stop." 6th November 9th: Fallon doesn't want to do anything today. She filed a restraining order againist Ben and hasn't seen him since. She finds that he left a box on the porch for her, it's his manuscript. He leaves a note asking her to read it. She wants nothing to do with it. Later on in the day, she gets out of bed and finds her mom in her living room reading the manuscript. Her mom tells her that she needs to read it. Fallon sits down and starts reading. She never imagined what she would learn.
Last November 9th: Ben waited for her all day at the diner and she never showed up. When he went out to his car, she was there waiting. She told him she has nothing to forgive him for. That he was 16 and had just lost his mom and that she knows it was an accident. Showed him that she got a tattoo. "I just got it about two hours ago when I realized how selflessly in love with you I am". That is something his mom had told him, to remember that moment you fall in love. (That's why he got his tattoo.) And the lived happily ever after!!! My review: OMG!!! I was not expecting the plot twist that this book had. I fell in love with Ben almost instantly. I had no idea that he did what he did. I was completly shocked when Fallon read the manuscript and found out. I felt that even thought they meet in an unconventional way and only saw each other once a year, they had true love. This book kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time I was reading it. The story sucked me in and made me feel like I knew Fallon and Ben. I cried like a baby multiple times during this book. There were so many emotions from both Fallon and Ben and so much depth to their story that I couldn't help myself but cry. Ben was a 16 year old boy when tragedy struck him and he made a decision that would not only change his life, but Fallon's life too. Fallon showed so muich strength in forgiving Ben and understanding what had happened. Sometimes in life we fall in love. It isn't alwys easy, but it is worth it. "You'll never be able to find yourself if you're lost in someone else." "If we're going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy." "One of the things I always try to remind myself is that everyone has scars. A lot of them even worse than mine. The only differenceis that mine are visible and most poeple's aren't." "It took four years for me to fall in love with him. It only took four pages to stop." "I didn't think I'd be sitting here, either, But since I can't possibly make your life worse on this date, the least I can do is try and make it a little better."
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