A review by eliza_book_
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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

4.25

⭐️ 4.25 stars (rounded to 4)

⛰ What It's About

A woman named Chloe lives with a disability that turned around her life. After a near-death experience, Chloe decides she needs to ‘get a life’ since life is short. She writes a list of things she wants to experience or do that constitute as ‘getting a life’ such as moving out of her family home. Whilst living out of home, she starts to get to know Redford Morgan, the superintendent of her rental. From here, Chloe and Red learn many things about themselves and overcome past trauma and triggers which bring them closer together as middle-aged adults.

🔍 How I Discovered It

I heard about it first from The Book Leo - one of my favourite BookTubers who recommended it as a really good contemporary romance with realistic and relatable people who “aren’t dumb”. XD

🧠 Thoughts

As my first contemporary romance, I was impressed. It was really well written and really allowed you to see the characters develop and experience real-world issues and was very inclusive. I enjoyed this book quite a lot as it wasn’t cheesy and felt more relatable than I expected.
What I Liked About It
  • The inclusivity of people with a disability.
  • A healthy relationship with mature approaches to conflict and resolutions.
  • A male love interest that didn’t display all the behaviours of toxic masculinity! Yay! He was genuinely a very emotionally intelligent, insightful, and well-developed man.
  • The humour - it was very witty and funny.
  • I liked that it wasn’t super smutty - there were a few sexual scenes and only one full sex scene which added to the story rather than becoming a main theme.
What I Didn't Like About It
  • I perhaps would have enjoyed a larger more high-stakes climax in the book but this is more a personal preference than a criticism.
  • I don’t have a dislike for much in this book as I think it did extremely well for a book in the romance genre.

🥰 Who Would Like It?

  • If you like romance but want to see healthy relationships and how you should overcome legitimate challenges together.
  • If you want an open-door romance but don’t want anything too smutty.
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