I was worried I'd become grossly nit-picky by the time this book came up. None of the books I read made me fall in love with them. November-9 assuaged all my fears. Not every book deserves 5 stars but this one undoubtedly does. 
 Fallon and Ben's love story provides us with so many contradictions. Both of them realize the absurdity of the behavior of alpha males in romances and Fallon hilariously points a few of them out; 
 "Because as much as I like to read about a guy telling a girl she's so, so wet for him . . . if anyone ever said that to me during sex, I wouldn't be turned on by it. I would be terrified I accidentally peed on myself." 
 And then she also says; 
 "And if you and I were having sex and you told me you owned me, I would literally crawl out from under you, put on my clothes, walk out of your house, and go puke in your front yard. So just because I like reading about those kinds of guys, doesn't mean I need my real-life guys to act like that." 
 But then we reach this moment in the book; 
 "Jesus, Fallon," Ben says, stroking me, breathing heavily against my mouth. "You're so wet." 
 As delicious as it feels to hear that, I can't help but laugh out loud. When I do, I quickly slap my hand over my mouth, but it's already too late. He heard my laughter in the midst of the most mind-blowing act of seduction I've ever been a part of." 
 I just couldn't stop laughing at these dialogues, yet; the whole hilarity of the situation couldn't dilute the deep passions that we witness during these scenes. 
 Like any other Colleen Hoover book, November 9 too has a lot of angst. We deal with the same old character deaths, lies, stupid mistakes made because of confusing circumstances but nowhere do they seem unnecessary. All this angst isn't just there to make our lives miserable. The beauty of this book is, the angst doesn't get dragged on. There are plenty of novels out there where the author derives sadistic pleasure in forcing the readers to cry miserably. This book is absolutely not like that! You know while reading that all the sadness is not final. Everybody would move on with his or her lives and that there truly is a silver lining to all the sorrow that is there. 
 Colleen Hoover has provided us with an emotional masterpiece that manages to squeeze in a little bit of typical dreamy bookish romance into a rivetingly realistic story. This one was a memorable read. There is no way I can fully express how much losing my sleep while reading it, was worth it.