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Rating: really liked it
Upgraded review: this book is a real gem and I wish it got nomination from best romance category. Because in my opinion this is one of the surprising, emotional, humorous, smart, remarkable books of the year!!!
Wow 4.25, I wasn’t expecting to like this book so much, I was so ready to have an easy peasy cheesy rom-com reading but I got: emotions are everywhere, heart wrecking second chances of traumatized, struggling two beautiful soul’s story and I adored, devoured, savored and finally found my juicy romance STARS! Amen to that!
I’m so happy because in the meantime, I was reading another romance story which I detested (its review is coming up and unfortunately it’s one of the most popular and highly promoted books of the year) and I was about to give up reading something decent and lovable book, something makes you feel alive, something makes your heart ache, refresh your soul, put a smile on your face which couldn’t be wiped so easily. I’m happy to announce: this book gave me more than I expected and I finally found LOVABLE AND ADORABLE AMAZING CHARACTERS.
Chloe, witty, sophisticated, who has great taste when it comes to buttoned cardigans and colorful vintage dresses, carries the pain as indispensable piece of your life because she’s suffering from fibromyalgia, accompanied by fatigue and altered sleep, memory, mood.
One day she had a nearly dead experience. A drunk driver got into a store, instead of crashing her which made her think she had one life to live so she needed to escape from the cocoon that her protective and lovely family wrapped around her and prepare a list to teach her how to take more risks and bring more fun into her dull, foreseeable life.
As soon as she moved to an apartment she meet with super-duper hottie intendent Red-ford who was always seeing red on their encounters. Then we start witnessing their slow burn romantic relationship. Chloe has to deal with her insecurities because of her illness. Her own fiancée and close friends ghosted her after they found out her chronic disease.
And Red who was once upon a time a selected, famous painter, still trying to bury the ghost of ex girlfriends’ ghost, suffering from wrong decisions of his life. Now he needs a take a step to embrace his new opportunities by opening his heart to new and meaningful love.
Two of them literally collided and made wrong impressions about their real intentions. They started to think the worst of each other. But a beautiful cat made her job as a secret cupid to bring them together and helped them connect. So they took a first step from enemies to become friends.
Chloe needs help of Red to fulfill her list and Red needs an efficient website for his comeback operation for his new drawings. It started with friends with benefits agreement (not including sex, Chloe excluded that option from her list) but then…. No more spoiler… Grab the book and keep your sassy smile. A small spoiler… The chemistry between the couple is hot as hell.
I was truly adamant to give five stars to this book. But… there is an angsty moment… which is not too necessary… a little pissed me off… I know every new relationship with the characters who have heavy baggage from their pasts can stumble with struggles but I wish the author visualized far better obstacles between those characters.
I love edgy, heart breaking moments about the characters’ breakup to realize how they cannot live without each other. But this hearsay kind of misunderstanding caused a great cliffhanger of their relationship didn’t work with me!
But I still loved this romantic story! I adored the couple! And I’m curious about those incredible sisters’ entertaining stories! I’m all in for the sequels!
Special thanks to Avon and Netgalley to share this wonderful read with me in exchange my honest review!
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Rating: really liked it
It feels right to be here again, two years after I posted my original review, to scream about the masterpiece that is
Get A Life, Chloe Brown once more. Last time, I opened with statements like, “romance isn’t really my jam” and “I’m always skeptical to dip my toes into steamy waters" (hah)
Obviously none of that really applies anymore; I now read smut like it’s a 9 to 5. That said, I'll never not give it up for Chloe because she started it all.
Let’s re-recap why I love this story so fucking much:
The titular woman herself. I’ve read a good handful of Talia Hibbert’s books now, but none of their other MCs speak to me the way this particular Brown sister does. We are so alike it’s stupid. I, too, have made countless ‘get a life’ lists in my time and am enamored by glittery stationery. I
love keeping people at a distance and shutting down the moment things get vulnerable. It gives me hope. If this self-proclaimed ‘socially inept control freak’ can find her happy ending, maybe I can too.
Red. What a sweet slice of man. What a king. I remember when I first read about him, I was SHOCKED that a love interest could be (and I quote!)
generous, caring, nice, and not a douche. Aside from the fact that all those words mean the same thing (someone clearly needed to pry the thesaurus from my overenthusiastic hands), it’s safe to say that Red raised the bar on how I envision a worthwhile romantic hero. As someone who was brought up on the likes of Christian Grey and Travis Maddox, Redford Morgan was a game changer. Suits and six-packs may be hot but emotional intelligence is WAY hotter, and all that.
The characters may bring the story to life, but this book’s excellence comes from more than the frivolous fun of posh banter and bedroom escapades. There’s balance. Once again, I’d blame my early 2010’s introduction to the genre for this, but seeing a fictional couple hit realistic hurdles and actually work through them was a phenomenon I’d yet to encounter when I first read
Get A Life. But even if that wasn’t the case, even if this was utterly ridiculous in all aspects, I’d rather go down the avenue of cavity-inducing dialogue and a cat-rescue/meet-cute than find out that the man we’re supposed to be rooting for stole the main character’s bloody bedsheets to prove to his friends that he’d managed to fuck her.
In short: it’s fluff, it’s fun. These two nerds bring me an almost unparalleled amount of comfort and were the first to do so. Shoutout to T Hibbs for opening my eyes to the wonderful world of written romcoms & upping my standards for what love can be.
Rating: really liked it
This book was so cute and sweet (and steamy)! I enjoyed the banter, smut, and the love interest being so unabashedly in love with the protagonist. I also enjoyed seeing how tender and attentive he was to her chronic condition. My main complaint is that the conflict in the last 1/3 of the book seemed to have come out of nowhere; from there, it started feeling pretty rushed and contrived. I appreciate that the characters ended up communicating and owning up to their issues, but the conflict in the last act was still unnecessary and heavy-handed. I’m glad that it was at least resolved quickly though so things didn’t need to be dragged out.
Rating: really liked it
I used to think that 23-years-old people were adults with families and a house of their own… and here I am languishing away and reading romance to fill the void inside my heart lol
Rating: really liked it
So CUTE so PURE
Rating: really liked it
Are! You! Kidding! Me!
This was so cute I actually started tearing up–multiple times. I cannot get over how healthy the pairing was! Each character developed through motivation from their partner AND themselves to be their best self. Pass me the tissue, I can’t handle such beauty.
I will say that I wasn’t wild about the climax (or relative lack thereof). But, then again, I felt this book and Chloe & Red’s relationship was too solid for unnecessary ~drama~.
This will 100% be a re-read in the future. I need more Redford Morgan in my life.
Can’t wait to continue the series!
Rating: really liked it
Charming romance novel involving a woman with chronic pain and an attitude to mask it and her building’s super, a giant man with long flowing red hair and a tender, wounded heart. Well written, great banter, sexy vibes. Refreshing to see a romance novel about people with real problems while also including all the things we love about romance novels. Took way too long to get to the sex! Just way too long.
Rating: really liked it
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Rating: really liked it
BOTM pick for November 2019!I've been extremely generous with my 5 star ratings recently, but Talia Hibbert is an author that truly earns every freaking star she receives. She's a national treasure and we do not deserve her, folks. If you enjoy meaningful romances that are as diverse as they are steamy, please do yourself a favor and pick this one up. Dani's story is next in the trilogy, and you bet I'm waiting on pins and needles for it to be released.
*FYI, this book does contain graphic sexual content and may not be suitable for all audiences.Me, when I shed my dark, thriller reading persona, and pick up a feel good, steamy romance:
*Many thanks to the publisher for providing my review copy.
Rating: really liked it
This is the book equivalent of a Double Stuf Oreo. (This is not a typo - for reasons unknowable, the frosting-like contents of an Oreo are branded as “stuf.” With one F. Which somehow makes the already-gross idea of ingesting something as vaguely and euphemistically named as “stuff” even grosser.)
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Anyway, it takes an already good thing (an Oreo, or a romance novel) and takes the thing that makes it good (the aforementioned Stuf, or the romance novel stuff I will discuss later), and gives you more of it.
I can’t believe it exists, I can’t believe we’re lucky enough to exist in a world in which it exists, and yet I am delighted that these things are true.
There is a lot of good stuff between these pages, just as there is a lot of good Stuf between Double Stuf Oreo cookies.
I mean, the REPRESENTATION here. The EFFORTLESSNESS of that representation.
The depiction of chronic pain, which is not happily ever after’d away, nor is it ignored when it’s not convenient to the plot!
Our protagonist, who is fat and black and both of these things are part of the fact that she is beautiful!
Our hero, who is recovering from an abusive relationship and not magically free of side effects from it!
This is just so representative of so many marginalized identities and so effortlessly good at it. It makes you wonder why more books can’t be like this.
That being said...
It took me a REALLY long time to get into this story. By “a really long time,” I mean at legitimately the 75% mark. I didn’t feel invested until there were less than a hundred pages to go, but I eventually felt semi-invested and that’s what counts!!
Yes, maybe I didn’t start rooting for this couple to get together until Drama Drove Them Apart but still. Who’s to say if that isn’t just because of what’s wrong with me as a person? The best parts of every romance are the Suffering Will They Won’t They parts. Give me season 2 Jim and Pam flirtation over season 4 Jim and Pam relationship any day.
Another good thing about this romance and a bad thing about me when it comes to romance: I am incredibly awkward and tend to cringe at any smut scene, but this was well done so thank you to the author for rescuing me from myself on this one.
I just want every book to have the cream-to-cookie ratio that this book had. (Did I lose the metaphor?)
Bottom line: This book is so miraculous it made me talk too much about Oreos and in doing so apparently lose my mind!!!
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pre-reviewi am satisfied.
review to come / 4 stars I DON'T KNOW
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tbr reviewnot asking for much from this book, just that it be the cutest thing in existence and make me happy and fill the void within me.
you know. casual reading stuff
Rating: really liked it
#1 Get a Life, Chloe Brown ★★★★★
#2 Take a Hint, Dani Brown ★★★★★
#3 Act Your Age, Eve Brown
"Choke, Redford. Just choke."
He seemed to adore her more every second.
This is such a hard review for me to write, not because I'm upset about what to say, but the opposite: because it was
so damn good that I just want to screech incoherently until you ALL go buy it immediately and shove your faces into this incredible, hilarious, swoon-worthy, steamy, gorgeous, complex little rom-com. ♥ It's genuinely everything good in the world of romance books rolled into one adorable little package and I just—
*deep breath* I don't know how to possibly describe to you how much I love this book. She was Chloe fucking Brown, and she was starting to wonder if she'd been brave from the beginning. If she'd just needed to love herself enough to realize it.
All this time, I thought nothing could ever trump Talia's
A Girl Like Her, that no romance heroine could ever mean as much to me, but
no, I was wrong: Chloe Brown is the romance heroine of my heart, and I couldn't love her anymore if I tried. Talia's blessed me before with characters I could relate to for their size, or their mental illness struggles, or their painful pasts, or even just their quirks and humor — but until reading this book, I didn't know how
monumentally desperate I was to find a character I could see my chronic illness and pain represented in.
Chloe was used to seeing her life and her illness as normal, but she wasn't used to other people acting the same way.
I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that I
sobbed over Chloe's struggles and victories, that I
cried my eyes out over how genuinely and purely Red loves her and wants to take care of her, that this book literally
changed me for the better because somehow, through some miraculous turn of phrases, Talia Hibbert was finally the angel who could get it through my thick skull that
I am worthy of being loved, even on my worst days,... I'm choking up just typing this because it meant that much to me.
Chloe meant that damn much to me. "You, sir, are a menace. A menace to good and decent society, and to noble, chaste women such as myself—" She might have been insulted at how hard he laughed if she wasn't giggling herself.
I'm sorry, lovelies, I really didn't mean for this review to turn into such a rambling mess, but I just...
whew. On a lighter note — because at its core,
Get a Life, Chloe Brown is a rom-com and a damn successful one to boot — this book is adorable, and sexy, and so hilarious. I laughed so hard, and if you all could see my highlights on my kindle, it's unreal. I must've highlighted a solid 30% of the book just for sweet, swoony, and laugh-out-loud moments. Red is a stunning hero and I think he's just about impossible to avoid loving. And then there's Chloe's family! If you've read anything by Talia, you know her side characters are always absolutely BRILLIANT, and these are no exception. I'm bursting at the seams to get my hands on Chloe's sisters' stories because these women are fantastic and I need to get to know them as soon as humanly possible.
"For you," he said, as though it was obvious. "It's always for you."
I feel like I say this in every review I've written for this magnificent woman's stories, but I'm having to force myself to shut up because this review's gone on long enough already and at this point, I just want to resume incoherent screeching at you. This is easily one of the best books I've read all year and most likely my singular #1 favorite read of 2019, and you need it in your life.
All quotes come from an advance copy and may not match the final release. Thank you so much to Avon for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!Buddy read with Bex! ♥♥♥
Rating: really liked it
Caution: rated R... or X.... or NC17.....
I finished this book yesterday and have been putting off reviewing it. 😬I really wanted to love this book. It’s been all over my feed for months! And all of my friends raved in their reviews about it. I guess the hype built it up too much for me? 🤷🏼♀️ I’ll start with the flirty banter. I loved the interactions between these two, before they got physical. The email banter was adorable. The scene with the cat in the tree was laugh out loud funny. 🤣😂 But the magic kinda disappeared for me once they got together. ☹️ The steamy scenes felt uncomfortable to me and I’m not a prude about erotic books. I couldn’t put my finger on why these felt pushed and not hot to me.... hence my delay in reviewing.... as I’ve been thinking about it more... I think it was a mistake listening to the audiobook. 🧐 The narrator has a much older mature voice, which resulted in my picturing these characters as being 50+... which is my mothers age group... you add the word ‘pussy’ to that and it feels a bit cringeworthy. So I’ll have to stick with a 3 on this one... 😽
Rating: really liked it
This was one of my most anticipated books of the year and I am SO happy to report that I loved it just as much as I was hoping I would. Chloe was so strong and smart and hilarious and Red was so swooney and kind and loving and MY HEART IS SO FULL. If you want to read a romance that is equal parts sexy and swooney, look no further. PLUS THERE IS A CAT WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT
Rating: really liked it
THIS WAS TRULY EVERYTHING AHHHH
Rating: really liked it
This story is literal happiness.
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99 pennies on kindle, lads! ✌🏾
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This turned my guarded-mushy heart into a puddle. This book attacked me defences, destroyed my emotions and left me with a stupid, lopsided grin on my face and tears casually strolling down my cheeks.
I don’t even know who I am anymore.
I knew half-way through reading this book that I would re-visit this story again and it would be infinitely better the second time round, and the third, etc.
What I love about Talia Hibbert’s stories are how respectable, consensual, clean, honest, vulnerable they are. On the flip-side, she writes some of the most filthiest scenes. The parallels are a damn treat and make for such a great romance and a whirlwind of a story.
I absolutely
adored it.
