Title: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Author: Talia Hibbert
Publisher: Avon
Publication Date: November 5, 2019
Source: Finished Copy from Publisher
Talia Hibbert, one of contemporary romance’s brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things—perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory, and Helen Hoang.
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamourous family’s mansion. The next items?
Enjoy a drunken night out.
Ride a motorcycle.
Go camping.
Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
And... do something bad.
But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.
Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.
But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior.
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamourous family’s mansion. The next items?
Enjoy a drunken night out.
Ride a motorcycle.
Go camping.
Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
And... do something bad.
But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.
Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.
But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior.
The cover for Book #2 was just released and I'm all in.
Talia Hibbert is an award-winning, Black British author who lives in a bedroom full of books. Supposedly, there is a world beyond that room, but she has yet to drum up enough interest to investigate.
She writes sexy, diverse romance because she believes that people of marginalised identities need honest and positive representation. Her interests include beauty, junk food, and unnecessary sarcasm. She also rambles intermittently about the romance genre online.
Talia self-publishes via Nixon House and is represented by Courtney Miller-Callihan at Handspun Literary.
She writes sexy, diverse romance because she believes that people of marginalised identities need honest and positive representation. Her interests include beauty, junk food, and unnecessary sarcasm. She also rambles intermittently about the romance genre online.
Talia self-publishes via Nixon House and is represented by Courtney Miller-Callihan at Handspun Literary.
While I adore the cover of Get a Life, Chloe Brown, I have to say it is a little deceiving. It makes you think you are about to read a light and fluffy RomCom, when in reality, what you get is something far greater. This book was an enlightened emotional roller-coaster that was smart and snarky with its humor and whimsical in its refinement of the reader.
In Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Chloe has determined that her life has become tedious. In order to combat a boring future, Chloe makes a sort of bucket list of things she feels she needs to do in order to prove that she indeed can be delightful and interesting. Unfortunately, Chloe's illness prevents her from accomplishing many of the items on the list without major help.
Fairly recently independent Chloe enlists the help of Red, her neighbor who is an artist and also the superintendent of her building. Unbeknownst to each other, Chloe and Red each find the other attractive, but they have somehow gotten off on the wrong foot. Red thinks that Chloe is condescending and uppity and Chloe finds Red grumpy and boorish. As they make their way through Chloe's list, they open up to each other and begin to see things that were previously hidden to them.
I enjoyed watching Chloe try new things as her sexy neighbor learns that what he saw as Chloe’s snobbish and rude behavior is really her enduring pain and coping with the way her body has turned against her. Chloe begins to peel back Red's layers of baggage and finds his past has left him altered and only Red can determine if the changes are for the good.
This book was a fabulous insight into an illness I previously knew very little about as well as an entertaining story with romance that made my toes tingle.
5 Out of 5 Stars
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