The Novel That Improves When You Already Know the Ending

I rated November 9 three stars the first time I read it. The central conceit, that Fallon and Ben agree to meet on November 9 every year for five years with no contact between visits, struck me as romantic but the reveal in year four felt manufactured. I reread it a year later and found the opposite: knowing the reveal changes how you read every earlier scene, and the book becomes more interesting, not less, when you can see where Hoover was aiming the whole time.