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Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

98 reviews

lovealwaysadi's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Medical content, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Classism, and Drug use

Minor: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Car accident

theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book from start to finish. It had me laughing and smiling, as well as blushing and biting my lip, the whole way through. 

Chloe and Red are both adorable characters, with lots of their own baggage. Seeing them work through things together as well as on their own was wonderful to read.  And their email banter had me grinning the entire time. 

I can’t wait to get to know Chloe’s family better in Talia Hibbert’s other books! 

If you’re looking for a cute, funny, heartwarming, and sexy read look no further! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Classism, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

Moderate: Ableism, Drug use, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Cursing

Minor: Alcohol, Physical abuse, Violence, Car accident, and Racism

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Ableism, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Classism, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Medical content, Drug use, Racism, Car accident, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

divine529's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

I really enjoyed this book. 

This follows our main protagonist Chloe Brown, who has fibromyalgia, who almost gets hit by a car and uses that as a wake up call to "get a life" and she creates a list and enlists her lovely superintendent Red to help her with her list and things go from there. 

I absolutely loved the chronic pain/illness and healing from a toxic relationship representation in this. As someone who can relate to both of those things, I really loved both Chloe and Red and saw myself in both of them. 

I also loved the ending of this book. I know a lot of people really struggle with the miscommunication trope, but I thought it fit really well with the characters and their experiences and it was done well. Plus miscommunication is something that's pretty common in real life too. 

As for the romance, overall I liked it, since it shows a healthier relationship and promotes loving people as they are without wanting someone to change, and all kinds of body positivity and all of that was great, however, there were some things that I felt like were just a bit much (for me personally). I don't mind smut in books, but I'm not a huge fan of public sex and lust at all times. It just makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. I also wish that things between Red and Chloe were a bit more fleshed out as the pacing felt off at times (I particularly would've loved to hear more about when they first met and what it was that made them dislike each other so much, we got a little, but I needed just a little more) 

I also wish we got to spend more time with Chloe's family (I know Dani and Eve get their own books, but I wanted more of their interactions with each other) and with Red's family and with Annie and Vik. I really enjoyed all of the interactions we got, but I would've loved for more. 

All in all, I really enjoyed this (and honestly read this at exactly the right time) and I'm looking forward to picking up the others! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Classism, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

Minor: Grief, Car accident, Sexism, and Ableism

hollowhallow13's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Stunning, very well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, Ableism, and Death

jaz_gets_literary's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I am in support of the Harper Collins union strike so I will be withholding my review until the strike is over. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Car accident

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

red is sturdy which is maybe why i liked this one so much 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Car accident

wilybooklover's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

I can always count on Talia Hibbert to give me a book with a great balance of sweet and steamy! 

Chloe was a great heroine: strong, complex, prickly but deeply loving. Red was Chloe’s opposite in some ways — a sweet, golden retriever of a man who always has a kind word for everyone — but alike in that he is also dealing with trauma from his past. I loved that he was so caring and attentive to Chloe’s chronic illnesses and willing to apologise for his mistakes. They made a great complement to each other and worked well together as a couple. The last conflict felt a bit contrived and unnecessary but I think that about 99% of third-act breakups, so... that’s probably a me thing. 

Talia Hibbert writes some of the best sex scenes out there. Utterly consensual, hot, tender... She could do a masterclass. 

I adored the sibling relationship between Chloe and her sisters and can’t wait to read their stories! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Chronic illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Ableism, Mental illness, Classism, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

Minor: Car accident and Grief

haylzno's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

By far my favorite of the Brown sister stories. I loveeeeeed Chloe and Red. I saw a lot of myself in Chloe so maybe that's why but this was definitely my favorite of the 3 books. Grumpy sunshine is 100000% my thing and I fell for Red right away. Chloe's sense of humor was right up my alley as well. I binged the entire trilogy in 3 days so yea, there's that 😂

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Car accident, and Classism

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Chloe Brown is not happy with the life that she has as a result of her chronic illness and she is determined to change that by making a list and ticking off every experience on said list. Chloe's journey is fun and light-hearted but also emotional and intense. Talia Hibbert has successfully written this book and created these characters and their experiences for people to identify with and relate to. I cannot wait to continue my way through the Brown Sisters trilogy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse