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hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about married by morning by lisa kleypas. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly loved this book so much and i think that this was honestly the best book in the series, in my opinion.

trigger warnings- sexual content, kidnapping, sexual harassment, child abuse.

in the first couple books i was honestly kind of scared about leo and his love story, since i think that he was kind of a dick in the start of the book and like i think that his growth between it all was so good. like, i really liked seeing him become this sweet and nice and charming guy. personally, i think the way that he grew through it all was so nice and i honestly loved seeing him kind of become better and just grow into his skin.

but, than for marks, i honestly loved her so much. like, i feel like she has so many layers, and i really liked to see her peal back all of the walls she put up and how leo helped her with everything. like, i think that she was just so much different than the other historical leaders in the other kleypas books, so i honestly think it was kind of cool to see how they all worked. plus, i liked how headstrong she was, and how she never back down from a fight with leo, which i really liked.

with that, i honestly loved the arguing and the bickering that went on between leo and marks. like, i feel like it was just such a good enemies to lovers, since you still had those sensual and romantic moments where they were trying to protect each other, but you also had the moments when they were just straight up bickering, which was so cute in my opinion, since they really drove home the whole enemies to lovers plot. and like i think everything was balanced out in the end, so you had those moments where they were straight up fighting, but than you had the more romantic moments and balanced it all out.

and i mean, it was just so cool to see how it worked. like the whole moments that they could be arguing their asses off together, but than they would be right back to being all in love, which was just so good. like, i think that this was just so cool. like they honestly sent off major sparks, especially that they had this whole build up to their romance. like to get it all play out was so cool and i honestly loved seeing this all happen.

and honestly i feel liked the romance went at a good pace. since i feel like it was cool to see how they had this moment when they got together but that wasn’t the end goal in the book. like i feel like with so many romance books, especially historical romance, that once the characters kiss/have sex that it is the end all be all for that couple, which is true, but i did like seeing that they didn’t just jump into marriage and that marks kind of fought it for a while, when it came to actually getting with and marrying leo. and also they could have development outside just fucking and getting married.

and as much as i liked those racy scenes, and liked how they all came out, i honestly loved the cute little moments between the two of them. like, i honestly think that it was so cute to see how they all worked together. like, the moments where he got her glasses, or hell even just took them off so he could see her properly was just so cute. and i honestly loved it so much and i think that it was just so cool to see it all happen and everything kind of happen. like, i think that sex scenes are cool and i really liked them, but the small little romantic moments were like extra cute.

but, the end of the book, i honestly loved it so much. like, none of the other books ended that way, so having this ending was so cute. like i honestly really loved seeing how this happened and the moment with leo was just so cute. and i mean, seeing how they all interacted and just such a cute scene. but, i do wish that we got to see more of leo and marks in that scene, but i get why they didn’t do it since it made sense.

another thing i really liked was the development between leo and marks. like i feel like there was just so much development between seeing how they acted in the start of the series and than getting to see how they all interacted in this, and then even seeing how they acted in the last book together. like, i think seeing how they grew as people and than how they grew in their relationship with having them go from enemies to lovers, and like i think it was just so cool and i really liked it.

and i think with them getting together, i feel like they just had this amazing chemistry. like, i think that the best thing about this book is how they honestly had this chemistry from their very first moment together, so that was honestly something i really liked. but, like i think it also felt like they just worked and that they honestly felt real. and i think that it was honestly just so cool to see how they had this natural banter and that i think it was just so cool because they were just so strong and that with them, they made them stronger than they already were.

but, another thing i honestly really liked was the whole villain plots. like i think it was just so cool to see it all and that we never even got any of it in the other books, but if you kind of reread the books, you could honestly see it a little bit. so i mean, it was just so good and i honestly really liked seeing how they brought this up just seem so cool and i honestly really liked how they talked about it all. and i mean, i think it was just so cool to see how they had this villain side plot, and they didn’t belittle the plot line, while still having the romance as a center of this book.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly loved this book so much and it was honestly such a good read, and i really loved to read about them. and this is by far my favorite hathaway book in the series, and my favorite characters and all.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about tempt me at twilight by lisa kleypas. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly liked this book, even if harry did get to be on my nerves after awhile. but, i mean it still was a decent book.

trigger warnings- sexual content, child abuse

with poppy, i honestly really liked her. like, i think she was just such a sweet character, like all the other woman in this series. but, i mean i honestly really liked seeing her and just seeing how close she was with her family and their interactions. and i mean, i honestly liked the humor and the way that she was honestly really smart during the book. but, i mean, i think that she was just really nice and i liked what she added to the book, especially since she was kind of a ghost during the other books.

generally speaking, i did like reading about harry. like, i liked hearing about his past and the business, since i think all the way he talked about his travels was so cool, and i would’ve read more about him. but, i also think he felt kind of flat times. like, i think a lot of this book was just that he owned this big hotel company and that he wanted to be part of this family. like, i wish they kind of developed him more, and in a good way.

but, one thing that i didn’t like was post marriage harry. like, i don’t think it isn’t a spoiler to say they get married, since this is an historical romance. but, i really didn’t like how he treated poppy throughout the book. like, he went through these rants over and over again that he really liked poppy, mainly before marriage, and like he always brought this up. but than as soon as they got married, he like flipped this switch. like he went to being this good guy to being a complete asshole and using her for sex and she was this prop to him. and like he just got to be on nerves with how he treated her.

but, i mean they do give harry this redemption arc, which i did like and i liked reading about him becoming a good guy again. but, it got to be really annoying since he was this dick for a good portion of this book and than poppy just like changes her mind on him and harry became this changed man overnight. like, i think that it was just so annoying and like i feel like they should have made it happen not so quickly, and have him understand what he did wrong, and not have the servants do everything.

with that, i feel like they needed to give harry more of a point to know what he did wrong. like, i think so much of this was people telling him what he did wrong, and that he shouldn’t do this, mainly the people that worked in his house/right hand people at the hotel. like, i really wish that he realized what he did and that he was being an asshole to her. but, i also wish poppy wasn’t so easy to take back and put him back in his place.

and like it might just be the way that kleypas wrote him, but like that she had harry be such a good character throughout the book, mainly before marriage, and than it got to be this bad guy. and like it kind of felt like kleypas was kind of sympathetic with him, since she was like ‘well he’s a dick and a manipulative asshole, but like he’s rich and hot,’ which was just not it. and also the way he was just such a dick to the people that worked for him got to be so annoying and made me hate him more.

but even with poppy, i feel like once she got married she just changed. like through the other books and even the start of this book, she was a smart and witty character, like she definitely wasn’t one of those, i take whatever someone says to me, but than she just took it when it actually happened. like, when he became an asshole, she just like took it from him. there was moments in this book where he was just a dick, and instead of telling him to leave her the hell alone, she just is like whatever. and i honestly wished she fought back a bit.

honestly the best part of this book was the hathaway family. like i think they were honestly just so funny and i honestly really liked what they added to the book, since they honestly were really funny and that i think they did add the humor to this book and their plot lines were still fun. and i mean, i especially liked seeing where the first two couples went, like with marriage and babies and their houses, like it was just so special. plus seeing leo and marks were fun, since they get the next book in the series.

with that, i feel like this book had so much drama in it, and like besides the actual hathaway family, i feel like this book could’ve done without it. like, there was just so much unneeded drama in this book. like everything that could’ve been handled short and sweet, it was suddenly this big ass ordeal that literally didn’t need to happen. plus, i feel like there was just a lot of crap that didn’t make sense in the grand scheme of things. and i mean that it really could’ve just done without, since it was just to much and made so many things in this book extra complicated.

but i also think that a lot of this book was kind of the same plot line as a lot of the other historical romances, like i mean i know a lot of them have the same kind of vibe, with the same character set up, which i guess it was kind of a set up. but, i feel like with kleypas books, that they all had the same characters too, like all the men are rakes and all the girls are like someone whose funny and smart and all that. which, i guess is somewhat normal in an historical, but at the same time i feel like in here, all the couples kind of have the same structure, just with different conflicts, which i feel like was just a bit to much after awhile.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly liked this book, but i feel like so much of this book could’ve been approved upon, since it just felt kind of cliche at parts and also just not that good at the same time. but, i mean this is by far not my favorite book in the series.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about some of the books that i want to read in february. honestly, i want to read a lot of romance books, since i’ve been on such a romance kick lately, and also that its valentine’s day month, so it just feels kind of fitting.

from lukov with love by mariana zapata. if someone were to ask jasmine santos to describe the last few years of her life with a single word, it would definitely be a four letter one. after seventeen years and countless broken bones and broken promises, she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close. but when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she’s spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, jasmine might have to reconsider everything.

while we were dating by jasmine guillory. ben stephens has never bothered with serious relationships. he has plenty of casual dates to keep him busy, family drama he’s trying to ignore and his advertising job to focus on. when ben lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie stars anna gardiner, however it’s hard to keep it purely professional. anna is not just gorgeous and sexy, she’s also down to earth and considerate, and he can’t help flirting a little. but, anna gardiner is on a mission: to make herself a household name, and this ad campaign will be a great distraction while she waits to hear if she’s booked her next movie. however, she didn’t expect ben stephens to be her biggest distraction. she knows mixing business with pleasure never works out, but why not indulge in a harmless flirtation? but their lighthearted banter takes a turn for the serious when ben helps anna in a family emergency, and they reveal truths about themselves to each other, truths they’ve barely shared with those closest to them.

beautiful bastard by christina lauren. whip smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA, chloe mills has only one problem: her boss, bennett ryan. he’s exacting, blunt, inconsiderate, and completely irresistible, a beautiful bastard. bennett has returned to chicago from france to take a vital role in his family’s massive media business. he never expected that the assistant who’d been helping him from abroad was the gorgeous, innocently provocative, completely infuriating, creature he now has to see everyday. despite the rumors, he’s never been one for a workplace hookup, but chloe’s so tempting, he’s willing to bend the rules, or outright smash them, if it meant he can have her. as their appetites for one another increases to a breaking point, bennett and chloe must decide exactly what they’re willing to lose in order to win each other.

ugly love by colleen hoover. when tate collins meets airplane pilot, miles archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. they wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. the only thing tate and miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set up. he doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as tate can stick to the only two rules miles has for her: never ask about the past and don’t expect a future. they think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.

window shopping by tessa bailey. two weeks before christmas and all through manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. i’m standing alone in front of the famous vivant department store, when a charming man named aiden asks my opinion of the décor. it’s a tragedy in tinsel, unable to lie. he asks for a better idea with a twinkle in his eye. did i know he owned the place? no, he put me on the spot. now i’m working for him, trying to ignore that he’s hot. but as a down on her luck girl with a difficult past, i know an opportunity when i see one, and i have to make it last.

a lady’s formula for love by elizabeth everett. lady violet hughes is keeping secrets. first, she founded a clandestine sanctuary for england’s most brilliant female scientists. second, she is using her genius on a confidential mission for the crown. but the biggest secret of all? her feelings for protection officer arthur kenland. solitary and reserved, arthur learned the hard way to put duty first. but the more time he spends in the company of violet and the eccentric club members, the more his best intentions go up in flame, literally. when a shadowy threat infiltrates violet’s laboratories, endangering her lie and her work, scientist and bodyguard will find all their theories out to the test, and learn that the most important discoveries are those of the heart.

the wisteria society of lady scoundrels by india holton. cecilia bassingwaite is the ideal victorian lady and she’s also a thief. like the other members of the wisteria society crime sorority, she flies around england drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means. sure, she has a dark and traumatic past and an overbearing aunt, but all things considered, it’s a pleasant existence. until the men show up. ned lightbourne is a sometimes assassin who is smitten with cecilia from the moment they meet. unfortunately, that happens to be while he’s under direct orders to kill her. his employer, captain morvath, who possesses a gothic abbey bristling with cannons and an unbridled hate for the women, starting with the wisteria society. ned has plans of his own, but both men have made one grave mistake, never underestimate a woman.

verity by colleen hoover. lowen ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. jeremy crawford, husband of bestselling author verity crawford, has hired lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. lowen arrives at the crawford home, ready to sort through years of verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. what lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography verity never intended for anyone to read. page after page of bone chilling admissions, including verity’s recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died. lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. but as lowen’s feelings for jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words.

counting down with you by tashie bhuiyan. karina ahmed has a plan: keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules- even if it means sacrificing her dreams. when her parents go abroad to bangladesh for four weeks, karina expects some peace and quiet. instead, one simple lie unravels everything: karina is my girlfriend. tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. pretending to date him? out of the question. but ace clyde does everything right, he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without even trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books, a week, if she goes along with his fake dating façade. through karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back.

anyway, that is all for today! honestly this isn’t a lot of books, since i kind of want to take this month slow and not feel to buried with a tbr. plus, i never really stick to a tbr, so i don’t know why i would take time to do a long tbr.

hello everyone! today i am going to talk about all the books i read in january. i honestly had a really good reading month, and i read so many books, which was honestly just a good start to the year, even if this month felt like 3 months long.

ice planet barbarians by ruby dixon. i gave this book 2/5 stars. honestly, this was such an unbelievable book, that it honestly made it to be a decent book. like, it was pure trash, but i mean it still was something that i still found entertaining.

ice planet honeymoon: vektal and georgie by ruby dixon. i gave this book 2/5 stars. again, this book was pure trash, but like it was still entertaining at the same time. like, i think every stable honeymoon you definitely go out and bury bodies. but, i mean, this was just so random, and i mean, i guess if you just want to read smut and burying bodies, this would be the perfect book for you.

the risk by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly really loved this book. like i feel like this book was the perfect amount of bloody and romance, and i mean, it was just a really good book. plus, i think that it was just cool to see the whole serial killer x fbi agent romance, like it was just so fun and honestly a really cool dynamic.

sidetracked by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. honestly, i honestly really loved the romance in this book, like i really liked seeing them fall in love and just to figure out everything out. and i mean, i liked to see lana’s issue with either falling for a guy that can put her away, and than also loving him at the same time. like, it was just so good. plus, i think the cliffhanger was just so good.

scarlet angel by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this was just a blood book, that it made it so good. like, i honestly didn’t expect this much gore in a romance book, but like this was just done so good and honestly such an interesting book. and i mean this book is totally one of those books you don’t read before you go to bed.

all these lies by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. honestly, this book was such an addicting book, like i feel like this whole series was, but in here everything really picked up, plot wise. so, like it was just so cool to read and i honestly loved it so much. like this book is definitely a page turner, and in the best way possible.

paint it all red by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book aswell. but i feel like this book would have served as death trope, but i guess the happy ending did work well, since it was still kind of cute. but, towards the end of the book, logan did get on my nerves since he was just being such a dick to lana. but, i mean, i still think that it was a decent book.

love and other disasters by anita kelly. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly wish i liked this book, but i feel like the two characters characters just didn’t have any chemistry. like, they both just fell kind of flat and kind of boring for me. so, that was honestly made me enjoy this book a lot less than i could have. but, the whole cooking show was still a cool concept, especially for a romance.

shattered midnight by dhonielle clayton. i have this book 3/5 stars. honestly, this book was also kind of a mess. like, i feel that so much of this book was just so all over the place, and the romance also didn’t work at all in this book. but, i mean, i think that this had the right intentions, but than it still wasn’t that good of a book. and i feel like there were to many different plots in this book, which got to be annoying.

barbarian alien by ruby dixon. i gave this book 2/5 stars. honestly, these characters were honestly so annoying. like i didn’t expect raahosh to be the best book man that i’ll ever read, but some of his actions towards liz just annoyed the hell out of me. and than liz was just still a pain in the ass and so annoying and whiny, that i honestly didn’t like this book.

ice planet honeymoon: raahosh and liz by ruby dixon. i gave this book 1/5 stars. i think the biggest issue with this book is the whole conflict in this book was all just sexual. like it was that she didn’t find him attractive and other sex things that i don’t really want to get into. but, i feel like this book and the conflict became kind of juvenile, with him being ugly.

disney in shadow by ridley pearson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this was a reread and i honestly really liked this book, even for the fourth time. like, i do think that this book, or really series in general, is kind of confusing if you don’t pay attention to the fine details. but, i still think that this book was good and the action scenes were really good.

the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly did like this book and i feel like it was a decent book. but, i do not understand why people keep talking about how this book was super spicy, since it was not that spicy, like it was one sex scene, and it was just kind of underwhelming in this aspect. but, i mean, i still really liked the whole fake dating, since it was super cute.

you’ll be the death of me by karen m. mcmanus. i gave this book 3/5 stars. this was fine book, like i think that this book wasn’t anything special. like, i feel like all of mcmanus’ books to be this same plot and the same kind of set up and everything, just with different locations and different names. which, for this book, i feel like it just didn’t work since it was just kind of boring after reading all of her other books.

power play by ridley pearson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. again, this was my fourth reread of this book. honestly, this book was really good and i honestly really liked this plot and these characters. like, i feel like the plot and the relationships were just so good and i honestly loved the whole found family vibe of this book, and i think seeing all of their interacts together was so cool.

heartstoppers 1 by alice oseman. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this was my second reread of this book. i honestly really liked this book. like, i feel like this whole plot was so good and i really liked the way nick and charlie interacted together. but, i also really loved seeing nellie and seeing them all have fun and find their feeling for each other.

shell game by ridley pearson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. again, this was my fourth reread of this book. i honestly really liked this book, and i feel like it was still good and still held up. and i’m honestly surprised how much of the ship parts of this book i still remembered, since i didn’t think i remembered this books all that well. but, i still honestly really liked this book and got sucked in.

love in the afternoon by lisa kleypas. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly liked this book, but it wasn’t my favorite in the series, by any means. like, i liked the romance and i think it was done pretty well, and just seeing how they interacted was cute, but i feel like it was missing the hathaway humor. like, i think that the rest of the series has this humor to it, and the family was always a center aspect off this, but i feel like this book kind of lacked it.

heartstoppers 2 by alice oseman. i gave this book 5/5 stars. again, this was a reread of this series. i honestly did really like this series and i honestly really liked seeing this romance kind of happen, and just to see how they all interacted and figured out their sexuality. since, i feel like the sexuality was a cool part, and it did feel real and raw. but, it was a really good book and i really love nick and charlie.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly had such a great reading month, since i got to read 19 books this month, which is a record for me, so that was honestly a plus. but i also think that i did read so many good books this month, seeing that most of them have high star rating.

hello everyone! today i’m going to be talking about heart bones by colleen hoover. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly did like this book, and i did think that this was such a quick read, which i didn’t really expect from a coho book.

trigger warnings- death of a parent, drug use, addiction, death, abandonment, drug use, child abuse, sexual content, sexual assault, alcoholism, grief, domestic abuse, eating disorder, toxic relationship, alcohol, emotional abuse, sexual harassment, physical abuse.

honestly, i think my favorite part about this book was that this book didn’t have the cheesy and stupid plot twists that most coho books did have. like, i feel that a lot of this book was honestly a simple romance and that in the end, it didn’t have the stupid plot, which honestly worked so well. and i mean, i feel like this whole set up really worked, since it was cheesy and stupid, and it honestly made it feel more genuine and a better book.

but one thing that was kind of icky to me was the age of these characters in a new adult setting. like, i believe all the characters in this book are like 17, maybe early 18. but, still they were all basically minors, engaging in sex, and it wasn’t even like fade to black scenes. like, i’m all for reading a romance between teenagers, but i feel like the sexual aspect of this book was kind of gross and uncomfortable when you either remember their ages, or know how old they are.

another thing with their ages, was that they really read older. like, i know beyah and samson have so much trauma in their lives, which could be the main aspect they read to be older, instead of like teenagers, or its just that they were in this romance setting. but, i mean, it’s a coho book, so i don’t really know why i expected them to ack younger. but, i mean i think they acted like late 20s/early 30s year olds, which i mean was kind of annoying, since they were supposed to be younger, and i feel like if you are going to write about teenagers, you need to at least have them think like teenagers do.

but, i also kind of liked that this book had some classism issues and that they brought those topics up. like, i think that a lot of books probably won’t step over that line and talk about it. where, i did like to see them talk about it, and to have them bring up these difficult topics and bring up these topics, that most people won’t bring them up. plus, i really liked that her step family and father kind of learnt about what they have is actually was worth something, and i did really like that conversation towards the end of the book.

but, with the classism, one thing i didn’t really like with the classism is how beyah talked about the rich people in the start of the book. like, i understand her feelings and why she feels this way, and i get it. like, she had a really hard life and that she did have thoughts towards them, mostly negative. but, i feel like a lot of this book was too negative. like, i get where she was coming from and for all of her feelings. like, she was borderline toxic about it all and that all of her thoughts about everything got to be a bit to much and just wasn’t needed in this book. like, i think that there is a fine line between being straight up toxic and talking about your feelings and your thoughts.

and honestly her growth for her was honestly so amazing. like, i really liked to see where she went from point a to point b. like, i think it was really cool to see how she kind of found her happiness and now knows that she doesn’t need to live a sad life because she grew up this way and that she can do what she wants. like, i think that was the thing i honestly really loved and i honestly think that aspect was super cool and i think that she was just honestly really nice, in that way. and i honestly really liked that we got to see growth in her relationship with her family, especially her dad.

but, one thing i do wish was that we got to see more of samson. like, i think we knew about him and we knew his life story, or at least some of it, so i honestly wish we got more. and even got his pov throughout the book, even though that it would kind of ruin the ending of this book. but, at the very least, i wish we got the epilogue with his pov, and just to see thoughts and feelings on the whole situation, since i think seeing what he has to think about it, could be so cool and honestly better than just beyah saying what he looks like with these feelings / what his actual thoughts are.

another thing i did like was the writing. like, i feel like the writing was honestly really good, and i honestly think that it really brought you into this story and that it was honestly a good book. like, i was honestly kind of scared / i didn’t know if i would like it, but i think that this book was really genuine and honestly a really decent book, and that the writing was honestly good, even if it was kind of cheesy and basic, but i still really liked it nonetheless.

but, i do think that the romance was really quick. like, i really like the progression of relationships and romance, like i think that seeing them meet and fight their feelings than get together, but not in a slow burn way. but, i still think that it was still think that it did have good moments, relationship wish, but i think it just didn’t work in this book. since, i feel like this book had a lot more lust than love, and that they really didn’t have any ground on.

kind of going back to beyah, but i think that she had all these moments in the start of this book, she would talk about how independent she was, like she had this whole ramble about how she had a bad mom and that with her mom being into drugs, she had to grow up by herself and very quickly. but, i feel like it just didn’t work in here, cause as soon as they got close, she was so dependent on samson, that it just poked holes in everything that she already said. but, also it was kind of weird that she would tell him everything, yet he told her nothing back. and i mean, i think it was just kind of random and i was just kind of weird.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly did like this book, and i mean, it was kind of a cute book, when you get past some of the surface level issues. and that i think that this cover is kind of cute, which i honestly didn’t expect the cover to be this cute.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about november 9 by colleen hoover. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book, and i think that it was done honestly pretty well. but, it did kind of have some cheesy issues in the end, which i didn’t really like.

trigger warnings- fire/fire injury, suicide, death of a parent, death, grief, cancer, sexual content, body shaming, injury/injury detail, gun violence, car accident, terminal illness, suicidal thoughts, blood, cursing, toxic relationship, medical trauma, suicide attempt, emotional abuse, gaslighting, infidelity, self harm, violence, pregnancy, alcoholism, mental illness, panic attacks / disorder, vomit, alcohol, body horror, chronic illness.

one thing i did really like was how this book did deal with the characters meeting every year on the same day, but they couldn’t talk on any other day of the year. i honestly really loved this premise, even if i was kind of scared for this since i didn’t know if this would actually work. so, i honestly really liked that we got this, and then every year it didn’t feel like they were skipping anything, and that it never felt super choppy, which i didn’t expect.

as for ben and fallon, i feel like on surface level, they were such a good couple. like, i feel like the way they talked and interacted with each other was just so good and cute and i really liked it. plus, i think the banter between them was just so good and spot on, especially with only meeting each other a handful of times, it was just done really well. and i think that they had some natural chemistry, which i kind of expected from coho, but at the same time it was done so well.

but, i do think that they did have so much baggage and unneeded drama. like, with only meeting on one day a year, i feel like that they just packed way to much drama in such a little amount of time. and it honestly got to be to much, especially as they went more and more into this ‘relationship’ and even they could have sorted out threw so much in such a sort amount of time. plus i think that they could have worked things out in a better and more healthy way, if they just didn’t throw it all happen in one day.

and like i think that they had and grew such big and deep feelings for each other, that they had so many petty fights when they got together on these days that like if they were a relationship for more than one day per year that they would 100% see the red flags with each other and dump each other. and like i don’t know how they can claim they have this big and bad relationship when they only have met less than five times and most of the time they are either sleeping or fucking.

but, at the same time i kind of have to give them props for having this stable relationship. like, it was honestly kind of cool that they did have this whole relationship that they could only be together for one day per year, but they still had this ‘real’ relationship, which i mean i know i couldn’t do. so, i feel like it was cool and honestly impressive, but i mean they probably still should have been communicating more than just one day per year.

one thing i did really hated in this book was the plot twist. like, i think that they should have just left at the first thing, but then never bring it to the second part, basically they shouldn’t have ben did what he did and just let it have the first part and have someone else do it. like, it just made me so uncomfortable and i think that they should have happened it so much better, especially if they still wanted to have the “guy secretly knew girl before they formally met,” they could have made it so much less toxic and gross.

and love herself. but, like looking back on it, i feel like the whole sex scenes weren’t because he love her or that she was beautiful, it was that he wanted to rip off her clothes because he wanted to see the scars that you are hiding, because you don’t like them. and those scenes just came across so weird and gross, and i really hated how it all happened and how they handled these sex scenes. but, i also think that there were other semi romantic scenes, where she would be talking and then he would ‘shut her up with his mouth’ or ‘he kissed her with entitlement.’ and the whole sex scenes kind of came out like he thought he owned her or something like that. so, i really have no clue how i didn’t pick this up when i first read it.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly liked this book, even if it did have some issues, it was still a fun and addicting read, even if it was quite dramatic.