Yes literally but even when reading the first part I loved it and was happy but I was just so frustrated cus they so clearly liked eachother if they were willing to meet each year they should have just exchanged numbers and had a nice normal relationship. I understand the book wouldnt have even happened if that was the case but yeah it was just infuriating.
im so confused after this book. i want to love it but I'm sorry that big plot twist is so upsetting. hold on, I'm going to comment more below so ignore if don't want spoilers. i cant help but think he fell in love with her out of guilt. he 100% manipulated her into falling in love with him because she loved how confident he made her feel but in reality, he was the reason she lost all the confidence (he did the fucking fire!!). its a big story about redemption on bens end too, but i just feel like this was a really toxic relationship. and Fallons response was like vomiting then hours later, i love you. shes really forgiving, but in this situation, i would be so distraught from the betrayal. like one day ben will have to tell fallons dad, that the reason for the fire was ben, not the dad. then bens mom getting cancer as her suicide reason was just another sad plot twist (ben never needed to do the fire!!), you barely had time to process. it just was a book that left me thinking os many things. however once i found out their relationship was based on a lie (they ddnt have a cute meet-cue, he like stalked her and her dad there), i felt like either ending would be sad. if they are together its sad, cause fallon deserves better. if they arent together, its sad, because they are so in love with each other. the jordyn plot twist was enough. we didn't need the ben-fire plot twist thing
I HAVE THE EXACT SAME THOUGHTS! I know Ben said he truly thought Fallon was beautiful but I still can't help but think he's doing it out of guilt, to make himself feel better or I honestly don't know. I loved the first half of the book tho. The 3rd November 9 was like uhmmm but then the 4th - WHAT THE FUCKING HELL.
@@bellaadvincula8165 first half of then book was so good!! Luckily I liked the other Colleen Hoover books so far this one has been the only flop for me I read it ends with us, confess, ugly love, and verity so far
But ben started the fire accidently bro he was not in the Right mind think even Fallon father was not be balmed here because it's the cancer that killer her
I think Ben sent her the pages of his mother's passing and stuff for Fallon's sympathy and forgiveness. He literally expected her to forgive him after he stupidly burned her house and then, despite being warned by his brother decided to disrespect HIM by developing a relationship with his wife.
This!! I couldn’t help but thing his motives weren’t fueled by guilty/his strong passion to be forgiven and let go of this endless pain he felt. But yes I can’t believe that she did not have enough time to process the fire+suicide. BUT I feel like without that, you would not be able to see past him and jordyn yk? like that was his brother’s wife💀💀 +ITS THE BROTHER WHO KNEW!!!
FINALLY! Someone actually criticizing this book!! Don't get me wrong, I loved it!! 4 - 4.5 stars, but i found Ben low key toxic, like, he is very insistent and low key manipulative; not majorly, but like "read this for you, not for me, but if you wanna forgive me i'm gonna be at the restaurant. you can finish reading or you can stop right now and come forgive me." - i feel as if he is really pushing her to forgive him. Of course he wants that but it goes against his "altruistic love". And I also thought it was a bit much. I realize how all the chapters were fundamental, but i feel like i would have been good if it ended a year early. Of course, the plot line would have had to be different, but it exhausted the "you have to be with your family bye; im dating jordyn bye; you burned me bye". Give me a break, Colleen, ge! There is no way someone would put themselves in such pain for 3 years and keep insisting. And another thing, I feel like I wouldn't be satisfied by any ending. They ended up together and I kind of hoped they would end apart... Fallon would meet Ben and they would go their separate ways, but if that had happened, I would've wished they had stayed together, so... a tough one.
One thing I will say is even after the various november 9’s, he is still super young and he even describes this love as an immature one! I do agree that the timeframe was WAY TOO LONG! Like who would wait that long for anyone💀 I will say that for the genre of this book, the ending was very fitting, although unrealistic
The ending really aggravated me, because Ben ruined Fallon's entire career and body, and also violated a restraining order, yet she still forgives him, for seemingly no real reason, other than that it's a romance novel. It would work better as a thriller, in my opinion.
man this book is something i gotta tell you ughh ughh ughh... i just finished reading it and OMG!!my heart is aching and at the same time I'm laughing,crying, getting goosebumps and what not!! COLLEEN HOOVER YOU GEM ❤️❤️❤️
I love the concept and I loved the storytelling but the end was.. A bit too much there's no way you could come back from that I think it would have been more powerful if fallon had just not showed up not only so that it could be more a sad and impactful and unique ending but also so that the line about them not ending up together would have been worth it if they were both happy in the end could have been cool foreshadowing. Anyway loved reading it but it could have been better
Nah… Girl I agree. It was a lot of plot twist. I’ve read Ugly Love, It Ends With Us, and November 9 so far that book has me like “well what’s gonna happen to them?!??!?”
I’m currently reading this and I’m so into it😭😭 I’m at like the 4th November ahhhhhhhh I feel you with the raw emotions Edit I finished it!!!!!!!!! OOMG SO SO SO GOOD THE ENDING 🤯
I just finished reading this book 15 mins ago and tbh I am finding it hard to process the last the last 3 November’s I mean it’s too much to take in such a short time. I hv read It ends With Us and Ugly love, absolutely loved them both of course but I also found them realistic u know ( I mean I can imagine someone being those characters in real life) But I hv a lot of mixed emotions for November 9. For me it got unrealistic with soo many plot twists and then fact that they ended up together despite everything( not that I didn’t want em to) but idk how I feel about the whole thing. But I LOVED THE CROSSOVER with Miles And Tate(frm ugly love)
I might be the only one on the planet to say this.. but i was so disappointed with the ending. I didn’t like how she just jumped right back into his arms. However I feel like id be equally disappointed if they parted ways. Its so confusing lol. I don’t want them to be together but then I think of all the cute moments they shared. This book is so tough to try and process and collect my thoughts about. rating this was so hard also, because i’ve always loved colleens writing. As I was about to press 5 stars on goodreads I stopped myself and changed it to 4 stars. I wish I could be in love with this book like everyone else seems to be, but it just doesn’t sit right with me that she looked past everything when he literally wrote a book for her about everything he had done.
I just finished it too and girl you're so much better than me. I gave it a 1.5/5. The ending make me sick to my stomach. I agree with you I hated the fact that she just got back with him just like that. To be honest I'm firm believer in never getting back together with someone when they've severely hurt you. He hurt Fallon in ways that are incomprehensible I would've been happy if she knew her worth, parted ways with him, and they never spoke again.
Super late but just finished this book and I usually love coho but this really disappointed me. The first half I thought was cute enough but then when Ben’s brother dies and Fallon just leaves without even exchanging numbers and then Ben deicides to get with Jordyn (his sister in his words) and every twist after that it’s so downhill for me. To find out he caused the fire and feels guilt for that takes away from all the moments he’s trying to convince her she’s beautiful and to be confident again. I can’t believe how quickly she forgave him and then asked for his forgiveness! Like what?! It actually really creeped me out. I wish I could change the book. This might be silly 😂 but what if Kyle was the brother struggling and found his mom and lit that fire and Ben was the brother who was trying to help him get through his guilt. Ben still goes to the restaurant in hopes of seeing Fallon so he can assure Kyle she’s fine and try to give him some closure but then he sees her and he’s enamored by her and they have that same day together. Then Ben is keeping up the secret for his brother not for himself. Kyle can still be mad at Ben when he realizes their dating everything basically the same just switch brothers and it makes it was less creepy to me.
I was awake till 6 in the morning trying to complete this book and i was evaporating , going nuts doing it😭 it was a rollercoaster ride of constant traumatic events.....i dont think any other character has gotten on my nerves they way these 2 did! Fallon did what she did but i'll never , NEVER! forgive ben for dating his sister-in-law! I LOST IT there!😭😭 like man have some conscience! You seriously sleeping with the wife of your dead brother!!!?????😭 i have one more CoHo book left to read and istg i'm so scared.....i'll prolly delay reading it as much as possible🤦🏻♀️
omggggggg i read it in one day and i could relate so much to youuuuuu😭😭!! im so glad i found ur channel, normally i have no one to fangirl over these books with. colleen hoover is really a talented author and i can't wait to read all her books❤️✨ i agree with u that there were too many plot twists and the fact that fallon left ben at the time he needs her the most and the fact that they would meet up every year knowing they were in love with each other really triggered me but well this is what she has to do to write the book haha, it was super good and i loved it. ugly love and it ends with us is sooooo good tooooo, omggggggg i cant get over all these couplesss.
I just finished this book today. At the start I liked Ben but as it went on I was like seriously. He basically manipulated her and pushed his way into her life so he would feel better about himself and what he had done. He lied and did what he could to make himself feel better and feel less guilty about everything. I don't get how she seemed to have a bigger reaction to finding out about him being with Jordyn than when she did about the fire. To me it wasn't even the fire that I started to not like him it was that he knew exactly who she was and pushed himself into her life so he could ease his own guilt by helping her with her confidence that he had a hand in destroying. Ben did a bad thing as a kid which was an accident but I hated his actions as an adult in the second half of the book. Personally, I think Fallon deserves way better than this.
I once read a RU-vid comment saying “knowing the book has a plot twist is already a spoiler” and I didn’t agree until I read this book KNOWING there was going to be a plot twist. The whole book I was trying to figure out what it was and got it. Anyway, I gave it 3 stars, maybe 2.7? Not a bad read but not as amazing as it was hyped to be. Everyone said the plot twist was “mind blowing” but I didn’t feel that
I’m so confused on how people just ignore his manipulative tendencies, control, overall disgustingness I don’t get it? I’ve probably done this in the past but this book just didn’t work for me because I couldn’t understand the dependency after meeting 1 day. If anyone can explain pls do 🥲🥺☺️
Imo it wasn't the best like I gave her 4 stars. The plot twists are really good and unexpected and I relate to her characters but even in my most in my feels moments, I could never imagine that happening in real life like what kind of PATIENCE do you need to have 😂😳😱. Not to mention that the girl gave off pick me vibes like she pushed him away, he waited and waited and then she gets offended. SISS!!!
I’ve read four Colleen Hoover books and this was the first Colleen Hoover book I went searching for a review on. I couldn’t figure out why I wanted to watch one, but hearing you discuss I realized why. Similarly to you, I loved the book but it just didn’t strike a cord with me the way others did. I finished confess a few days before this one and loved it, but with November 9 I lacked the same feeling I had with confess upon finishing it. I feel that it may be because of the lack of relatability. I loved the characters, loved the story, but as you said it didn’t seem realistic. Still one of my fave books, just lower on the list than most Hoover books
I just bought this book for my younger sister mainly because her birthday IS November 9th! The title really caught my eye, so I really hope she loves it! ♥️ I can’t wait to borrow it after she’s read it lol … I wish this woman would stop being a spoiler for those who have not read it yet. And stop with unnecessary drama
Omg!!! I read this book about 2 months ago and it made me hurt. I still think about it sometimes 😂. It made me frustrated too. I felt the same way you did. But I think it was still good. Not the best colleen hoover book but it has a beautiful ending. ❤️
@@nikkisbooknook the whole concept was cute and the way the book was written was absolutely adorable, but definitely unrealistic😅 like if y’all really loved each other that much you would 10000% would want to meet up more than once a year or at least give each other’s phone numbers like DAMM, but it was still so freagin cute. Ugly love is still superior tho
@@maimaixvc cuz I had huge respect for Fallon, the way she stick up to her ideals, going after what exactly she wants until the ending, everything just flipped 360. Then there is Ben, I knew from beginning he was hiding something big but I didn't know what it was. He was little too perfect solution for all her problems at the start, which was a bit unrealistic for me and of course it ended up Toxic AF perfect example of love makes you blind.
I just finished the book and came on RU-vid to get the reaction of others ….. this book was my reintroduction to leisure reading and it was a lot. I love the plot but I wish like some said, that we got dialogue when Fallon showed up at 11:57. I love the main character’s banter , and it would have been nice to draw it out a little more or even fast forward to the year after. It was really awkward to see them get back together after Ben was with Jordyn , I personally don’t think I could have done that, but I guess it was meant to portray how much she loved him? I guess I’ve never loved selflessly before lol. I know it didn’t seem at that realistic but this is a work of fiction right? We are supposed to be whisked away in what we wish could be reality and explore that experience and I definitely feel it did the job. Thanks to some of the comments, I know have my next choice of book, ugly love , because I love crossovers 😌
i really wanted to love this book especially when booktok hyped it up so much but i just didn’t. i must say, this has to be my least favorite co ho book i’ve read so far. the main reason why i didn’t like this book was ben. ben fucking kessler. this book would’ve been so much better without the happy ending. fallon deserves better and ben deserves nothing, NOTHING! after those plot twists, i could not STAND to read his pov. imagine committing all those years to one person just to find out all of that :/ i would not be so quick to forgiveness that’s all i’m gonna say. loved the tate & miles cameo though ☺️
I GET THAT SHE LEFT HIM BUT JORDYN??? I understand that both her and Ben were hurting but his dead brother’s wife?? BUT YES SHE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM HER NUMBER BUT UNDERSTAND THAT HE DID NOT WAS TO FINISH THE BOOK SO SHE FELT OBLIGATED!!
For me personally, I know I’ll receive a lot of hate; but this book sucked big time I don’t know why. I found it way too cliche in terms of romance, it’s like each time they met, they had to furiously make out which felt immature. A lot of stuff atleast 80% of the book was just a filler except the last plot twist which made it survive, extra rosy description of the love making made me nauseous. Maybe I am not into romance novels as such but not more than 2 stars for me. One extra just for the last 20-30 pages!
I just finished this one - ON NOVEMBER 9. ❤ I LOVED it! It is tied for #1 CoHo book for me. I totally agree with what you said though that you can’t read more than one CoHo book a month! I love them then need to switch to something else lol bc of them being a lot for the brain! Lol
I hate BEN. I don't like it. The book is amazing but I can't agree to his character and I loved many parts of Fallon the only thing I can't digest is the fact that she forgive him right off the bat after reading the pages
I absolutely hate this book. My sister is a burn victim. She had an accident in the kitchen when she was in high school and has scarring because of it. When I heard about this book I was horrified. How dare Colleen Hoover sit there and write a book about an abusive relationship where the burn victim has no self confidence. I understand what she was trying to do, but it is in incredibly poor taste for her to write about burn victims as if they have no self confidence and are doomed to be stuck with people who will use that knowledge to abuse them throughout their relationships. The most disturbing part is that she writes the book as though this relationship is normal. It’s not. This is offensive and for people to read this book and give it five star reviews is, quite frankly, ignorant. Not only does she exploit the character’s self confidence issues because she is a burn victim, but she uses it as a fetish. WHY IS THE ENTIRE BOOK BASED ON TURNING A HORRIFIC EVENT INTO A FETISH? To use burn victims, who genuinely have self confidence issues because of their scars, as a way to make your character insecure is disgusting.
The fetish issue is something I don't see brought up enough with this book. It's really disturbing to me that Ben seems to focus on her scars like that. Even more so since HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM! He's constantly wanting to see them and touch them. His behavior in the first part of the book isn't okay to begin with, it's even worse at the end given what he's done, that the stalked her, won't take no for an answer, and all after they've been together for less than two days total. Seriosuly. A few hours every year - that's all they have to justify Ben doing all of this. The whole book is terrible. I've never watched a positive video for a Hoover book. It's mind blowing how all the nastiness of Ben (insisting on her wearing clothes for him, objectifying her body in the first minute, fantasizing about her scars, stalking her, lying to her, guilting her) is all handwaved away and it's Fallon whose seen as being the questionable one. Don't know if you know this but this is the CoHo book that had a passage towards the end of the book edited because it was basically Ben assualting Fallon under the guise of 'your mouth says no but your body says yes'. Fun times.
I hated the plot twist LIKE I JUST IDK I COUKDNT GET INTO It. It was so many PLOT TWISTS I WAS LIKE WOAH!???? I hated that Ben fell in love with his dead brothers wife. Although it was the best plot twist Out of the book I like. The others like him starting the fire. It felt so far fetched idk. But I loved Ben and fallon
I was in a Reading slump and I made the mistake of reading this to try and get out of it cus Colleens Books i can usually read quite quick as they r kinda fast paced but. Now I’m just sad 🤦🏽♀️ there was so much happening and more and more continued to happen and then it seemed like so much was happening in such a short about of time BUT IT WAS OVER 1 YEAR EACH TIME. I think it helped me get out of my book slump as now I want to read something happier to help me forget about this one 😭 but I really liked this book but like you said it is a LOT.
My very first CoHo book and I surprisingly loved it though! I love that Ben is flawed. MMC doesn’t always have to be perfect. It was a bit corny in the beginning with all the perfectness - I enjoyed the less than perfection story and typical story. (I do agree there were plenty plot twists that didn’t give me a chance to breathe)
This book is the first book that I absolutely hated from start to finish. An absolute trash book that made me cry out of anger for the main character that she had to be subjected to two toxic disgusting men, one worse than the other who was supposed to be her love interest.
Listen I am genuinely not trying to be judgmental. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and taste. As long as you are an adult with a fully developed brain who can understand the difference between fiction and reality you are allowed to read whatever your heart desires, even if it might be considered „problematic“ or completely unacceptable in a real life context. But can I ask what you liked about the romance in this book? Especially the male protagonist? Because I just don’t see it and I would like to hear another perspective. Again: No judgement. Just confusion.
I didn’t like when he went with Jordyn I am like what and that manuscript that he wrote about Fallon and that he finally owned up to that Ben started the fire
Just finished this! LOVED LOVED LOVED IT! The emotional roller coaster I went on! The way I went up and down and up down and UP AND DOWN! Geez! This was my favorite from her. And I agree after year two. Nah I’m in love move over I’m moving in 😒😅
I really loved the book so so much the meeting idea was original and the plot twist omg noo it had me sobbing at 1am I had to take a break just to fully understand what I just read omg !! But I have some critics firstly I thought it was stupid they they actually showed up the next year like how can u agree on meeting someone in a year without even fully knowing them I mean what if he's a creepy psychopath but whatever it happened and they did it for so many years secondly I didn't like the fact that their relationship became physical thaaat fast ( it's years ik but it's only few hours actually ) and wtf ben why did he just date Jordyn literally wtf she's his brother's widow but over all the plot twist was so wow and I never thought that she'll actually forgive him
I mean, her stories are good ngl but i guess people overhype it too much that when someone finally reads it, it becomes too underwhelming hahhaa its the reason why im here in the comment section of this vid, i just finished november 9 myself and it's super underwhelming that i need to know if i'm the only one here who's experienced it. Turns out i'm not
EXACTLY EXACTLY. Instagram made me fantasise her books beyond limits. Plus I was drawn to the pretty book covers and ended up ordering. I read it ends with us online. And I plainly found it average. I HATED November 9. In The last few pages I could’ve cried to just for once finish off that book, it was so annoying. Maybe this romance genre is not for me.
UGH I want to read that one so bad but I’ve been putting it off because I know there’s several others you’re supposed to read before hand for them to connect. Maybe Someday I think?? But I promise I’ll get to it soon!
@@nikkisbooknook just googled it here’s the order it’s supposed to be read Hopeless, Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella, All Your Perfects and Finding Perfect.
@@lyndicunningham6606 I don't think it's ~necessary~ at all, I've just seem Colleen Hoover say that they are connected and for the full story to line up properly and for you to catch the connections that's the order she recommends :)
@@nikkisbooknook Yay Thank you!!! and a video idea for you that would help out so many teens my age that are starting to get into romance reads is something like “book recs for teens!” because i struggle finding some that are my age appropriate so much😭
@@nikkisbooknook it’s such a beautiful book, the feelings that I experienced reading this book, My heart literally aches thinking about it. But I don’t regret it, the story is written from a different perspective which is often not seen much in books. I’m telling you that the pain will be worth it.
@@shabnamshahzad6784 I definitely will get to it soon! I’ve heard some people say that you should read Maybe Someday before All Your Perfects because they have somewhat of a connection? Do you know anything about that?
SPOILER I noticed a lot of similarities with "Reminders of Him" by CoHo. -man dies in car accident before his child is born - if they knew who I really was, they'd hate me - they obviously find out and won't listen to an explanation at first - read this, it explains everything I don't know which was written first, but I started to get bored.
Not always??? Plenty of fiction books could totally happen IRL. I liked this book a lot but there were just way to many twists and turns and crazy things at one time for the end to be at all believable for me. Just my opinion though!
