Author: Talia Hibbert
Kindle Edition
Book 1: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Book 2: Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Book 3: Act Your Age, Eve Brown
As I write this, everyone and their uncle has already read these books. I am not surprised. They are three little gems!
In Get a Life, Chloe Brown, we meet the eldest sister, the computer nerd, Chloe who has just gone through a near death experience (well, kinda, but it did shake her to her core). Chloe has been living a very “safe” life due to her chronic illness. She has fibromyalgia, which can be quite debilitating during a flare up. She decides to grab her life by the horns, moves out of the posh family home into a flat and decides to follow a “bucket list”of sorts. She meets Red, the superintendent of the building, who is an artist trying to sort his life too.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown introduces you to Danika, a PhD student who is so focused on her work that she doesn’t want relationships. She has just “broken up” with her girlfriend who had the audacity to “catch feelings”. When she gets to work every day, Dani is greeted by Zafir, the former rugby player turned into security guard. They always chat and she always brings him coffee and he always gives her a protein bar because he knows she never eats when she is immersed in work. One day, there is a fire drill in the building and Dani gets locked in the elevator and is saved by Zaf, who carried her out of the building. They are caught on video and become an internet sensation as the scene is right out of a romance novel. Their new fame could be very beneficial to Zaf, as he runs a non-profit in desperate need of financial support through donorship. The new fame brings a lot of attention to Tackle It and they decide to run with it and pretend to date. Oh well well, we all know how that goes, right?
The last sister is Eve, who is the ditzy baby of the bunch, who jumps from job to job, apparently f*cking up every single job she’s ever had. One day her parents tell her they just had enough. They’re cutting her up financially. She won’t have access to her trust fund until she proves that can hold a job for a year. She is flabbergasted, leaves the house and drives aimlessly till she stops at a place to grab a bite to eat. Sadly the place is a B&B and not a pub. However, there is a “Help Wanted” sign on the door and she decides to investigate. It’s an opening for a chef. Oh, wait, she CAN cook and bake. Quite well. This might work! But her prospective boss is a peculiar guy who definitely doesn’t want to have anything to do with the purple-haired crazy lady who showed up with no CV and no interview scheduled. But Fate gets in the way and Eve literally runs the poor guy over and she now has to stay and fill in because she basically incapacitated the man!
The stories are a delight to read! There is definitely that wonderful “Britishness” in the humor. The text just flows in all of them.
I love the banter, the family relationships, the shenanigans. But most of all I love how Talia Hibbert brings you diversity. Representation is the name of the game! The Brown sisters are black. They have their peculiarities, as everyone else does. Chloe has a chronic disease; Red was (I love how TH reversed the common situation here) in an mentally and physically abusive relationship with his former girlfriend; Dani is bisexual, workaholic (and I felt particularly represented by her “highly sensitive gag reflex” LOL); Zaf deals with high anxiety and Eve and Jacob are in the autism spectrum. So, in a nutshell, it is THE REAL WORLD. And we still get the butterflies, the romance, everything. Kudos, Ms. Hibbert!!!
I highly recommend these books if you haven’t gotten to them yet. <3
Possible triggers: chronic illness, fibromyalgia, abuse relationships, parental neglect, neurodiversity, anxiety (panic attack on page), self-esteem issues
