November 9
2015
- long-distance relationships
- novelists
- fiction
- fiction, romance, contemporary
- fiction, romance, new adult
The story
"Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist. Can Ben's relationship with Fallon and simultaneously his novel be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak?"-- Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. They spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives they continue to meet on the same date every year. But has Ben has been telling her the truth... or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist?
What it’s like
Quiet, emotionally direct prose in a contemporary voice, with the glow of late-night phone screens, sunlit Los Angeles afternoons and crowded bars giving way to the blank, rain-or-shine stillness of a single calendar date returning each year. The mood is wistful and bittersweet, a slow ache with a sharp undertow of doubt, the kind of book that suits a rainy Sunday under a blanket or a long train ride when you want to feel something tender and then be unsettled. Pacing is brisk and chapter-driven, with short scenes that jump forward through the years, so the connection between two people feels built out of small reunions and missed timing. Its emotional register is romantic and melancholy, and the arc follows a pair of lovers who keep circling back to each other while their separate lives pull them apart, with the question of whether intimacy can survive honesty at its center. Intensity is moderate: there is some sexual content and frank adult situations, but no graphic violence, and the heartbreak is emotional rather than gory. It is for readers who love slow-burn longing, dual-perspective uncertainty, and romance that asks hard questions about storytelling itself.
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