Blog Tour: November 9 by Colleen Hoover - Review + Giveaway!

Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day of 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.

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I should just expect that a Colleen Hoover book will end with me in tears, cursing Colleen. I mean it happens with all of her books that I have read. They are immensely powerful and beautifully written.

Fallon – loved her. She was so strong and I loved how she did what she needed to do instead of leaning on a guy to fix her problems, like so many heroines these day do. She was shy at first but I liked that she eventually spread her wings and was more comfortable around people.

Ben. Ben, Ben, Ben. Benton James freakin’ Kessler. Loved him too. He was so damn cute at the beginning, being only 18 years old. He’s an aspiring writer and so cute and so funny. He had only the best of intentions regarding Fallon and I really understood him.      

I just knew tragic things were going to happen and I couldn’t stop it. I assumed the crash landing position, not exactly knowing what was going to happen, but I just knew something would. I mean, it’s Colleen Hoover. Of course something would happen.

I liked how the book progresses, Ben and Fallon meeting only one day a year, on November 9^th. It was definitely something special, something that only Colleen can pull off, something like she does in her other books to. Always something special.

I can’t wait to figure out the synopsis of Colleen’s next book. Maybe this one won’t end with me in a puddle of tears. But not likely.

Rating: 5/5 Tar Heels!

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Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Slammed, This Girl, Point of Retreat, Hopeless, Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella, Maybe Someday, Ugly Love, Maybe Not, and Confess. She lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys.

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Blog Tour: Racing the Sun by Karina Halle - Review + Giveaway!

When I’m traveling, I feel like the secret to my life, to myself, to really becoming, is one step ahead. It’s in the next destination, the next town I get lost in, the next stranger I talk to. It’s always next but never here . . . 

After six months of backpacking and soul-searching across the world, Amber MacLean is flat broke. There are worse places for a twentysomething to be stuck than the Amalfi Coast, but the only way she can earn enough money for a plane ticket home to California is to teach English to two of the brattiest children she has ever met.

It doesn’t help that the children are under the care of their brooding older brother, ex-motorcycle racer Desiderio Larosa. Darkly handsome and oh-so-mysterious, the young master of the crumbling villa tests Amber’s patience and will at every turn—not to mention her hormones.

When her position turns into a full-time nanny gig, Amber grows dangerously closer to the enigmatic recluse. But can she give up the certainty of home for someone whose closely guarded heart feels a world apart from her own?

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I have read some books by Karina, including Love, in English, Love, In Spanish, The Pact and The Offer. I have been enchanted by all of her books that I have read because of her vivid imagery and amazing scenery.

Amber was a woman who didn’t know what she wanted in life. She traveled all over the world, not knowing what she wanted after she was finished. She was a little lost until she met Desiderio in Capri and becomes the nanny of two grieving twins. She really found herself there and I liked seeing her blossom. She was a total sweetheart who really liked helping people.

Desiderio was tall, dark and handsome. He was grieving, having found himself guardian of his two young siblings. He did not know how to care for himself, let alone his siblings, after the death of his parents. His grief was palpable. Amber helped him open up and let his wounds heal.

The scenery in this book is wicked insane and I am so jealous that Karina actually got to travel to all the places in her book. Racing the Sun makes me want to visit southern Italy. Her books always do this to me. Make me inflicted with wanderlust!

Rating: 4.5/5 Tar Heels!

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Karina Halle is the New York Times bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky, The Pact, Love in English, and other wild and romantic reads. A former travel writer and music journalist, she lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails, and devours a lot of books.

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