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A review by jesikasbookshelf
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
4.0
Representation is so important. Often it isn't there, and even when it is it is as the token "someone" or the author just gets it all wrong. I'm sick of reading books with background characters that have conditions like mine and are pitiable, oh so helpless and someone the main character does a good turn by being a decent person.
Chloe Brown has conditions like mine. She has symptoms that read like a full house bingo sheet of mine. And I read this book without feeling sad, angry or impossibly frustrated with my own body. This book reflected back a person with an entire personality who was done being defined by her illness. It felt so realistic to me - much more so than depictions wherein the person who is ill and ok with it never admits that is constantly just under the surface for them.
On top of all that, this book was funny. It was romantic, steamy and it had a cute cat in it. Red is utter goals and hardly ever made me think about Red Forman. The romance of this book was wonderfully done and I am going to immediately start the next book.
Chloe Brown has conditions like mine. She has symptoms that read like a full house bingo sheet of mine. And I read this book without feeling sad, angry or impossibly frustrated with my own body. This book reflected back a person with an entire personality who was done being defined by her illness. It felt so realistic to me - much more so than depictions wherein the person who is ill and ok with it never admits that is constantly just under the surface for them.
On top of all that, this book was funny. It was romantic, steamy and it had a cute cat in it. Red is utter goals and hardly ever made me think about Red Forman. The romance of this book was wonderfully done and I am going to immediately start the next book.