romance
Fallon and Ben met when Ben crashed Fallon’s lunch
conversation with her father on November 9th.
Fallon was moving to New York City that evening but Fallon and Ben made
a promise to each other to meet at the same restaurant on November 9 for the next five years.
This story was not what I was expecting when I started
reading a Colleen Hoover novel! The
other two novels of hers that I’d read were not romances. But after perusing
her library, I now see that she frequently writes romances. Despite the book not being what I had been
expecting (I don’t often read book summaries before reading novels), it pulled
me in. I enjoy a good romance and this one was fun. Granted, Ben’s immediate
acceptance and general advice to Fallon regarding self-empowerment seemed a bit
too good to be true and overly wise for an 18yo man. But I didn’t let this bog
down my enjoyment of the ride.
The main theme of their connection was a very romantic
one—being accepted by someone else wholeheartedly when you had lost your sense
of self and, therefore, being given a second chance at enjoying life. Their unusual relationship had its ups and downs. But
something odd and unexplained happened during one of their days together and
this became the driving mystery to wonder about throughout the rest of the novel.
I loved Hoover’s story crafting and was completely hooked.
The audiobook narrators were Zachary Webber and Angela Goethals. This is the second story I’ve listened to by Webber and he’s
awesome. He is so great at voice acting
and was the perfect fit for Ben’s personality. As for Goethals, when she was
voicing the characters as they spoke out loud, she was a wonderful actor with a
variety of voices. BUT when she was the narrator, particularly at the beginning
of each of her chapters, she was robotic and soulless. I would sometimes cringe
because the direct comparison of her voicing to the stellar narration by Webber
immediately preceding was so stark. I give
Webber an A+ and Goethals a B. I’d have dropped her lower for making me cringe
at times but she really did a fabulous job at other times. So odd.
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