and a big part of your enjoyment of her books comes down to what you're willing to overlook or how you choose to interpret things.

Speaking of New Adult, my friend Megan wrote an awesome Almost Break-Up Letter to New Adult last week and while I was reading it and was agreeing with all her points, I would have never thought a Hoover book would fall victim to so many of those annoying and cliché NA traits. November 9 is the perfect mix of humor, twists and turns, love, angst and it has that Colleen Hoover stamp that is unmistakable. you RECOGNIZED that your relationship was instalove, and YOU STILL DIDN’T CONSIDER YOUR RELATIONSHIP MIGHT BE GOING TOO FAST. I’m so, so upset for her that she can’t stick up for herself, and Ben disguises his exploitative, disgusting, and toxic obsession with her scars and undressing her as concern and love.

Later on when they have sex, Ben muses about how as an author he has no words to describe that moment in paper so he will just have to. The first thing I had an issue with was the fact that Fallon was scarred on most of her body and face from a house fire that cost her her acting career. My favorite aspect of the story is how the book flowed so well together even though the story took place over a large time span.

It doesn’t matter that I’ll never feel the same connection with Jordyn that I had with Fallon, but Oliver makes up for anything our relationship lacks.

Ben shows up with his nephew, 10-month old Oliver, and lets it slip that he and Jordyn have become a couple. as if the second [they] joined together, a tiny piece of [their] souls got confused and a piece of his fell into [her] and a piece of [hers] fell into him. I mean that the mere fact that Fallon was a heroine who struggles with actual issues and insecurities and who wasn’t this perfectly strong baddie made her feel much more real and relatable. Please don't tell me you're one of those pretentious readers who judge people by the books they like.