Review: Get A Life Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1)

Get A Life Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1)
By Talia Hibbert

Published By: Avon
Publication Date: November 5, 2019
Date Read: December 7, 2022
Genre: Adult – Romance
Source: Bought
Format: Paperback
Pages: 373

From Goodreads:
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 six 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…

Get A Life Chloe Brown is a book that I have seen all over Bookstagram and BookTok but is one that I have never picked up, until it was selected as a choice for my Book Club. I was so excited to finally pick this one up, as I had heard nothing but good things. This book is such a cute romance book… but I have to say that I think it was majorly over-hyped. I’ve read some much worse romance books… but I have also read some that are much, much better.

Get A Life Chloe Brown follows the story of Chloe, a 20-something chronically ill, slightly overweight woman, as she moves out of her family home for the first time, and has to live on her own. I really appreciated all of the representation that was in this book. I loved that we had a black, chronically ill, overweight protagonist… and her feelings towards romance… I feel ya Chloe! I really found her relatable and I really loved her as a character.

Honestly my let down in this book, as is always my let down in most romance books, was the spice. This book at its heart is the epitome of a rom-com kind of book. It’s cute and sweet and funny… and then you hit the sex scenes and some sort of fifty shades shit hits you from the left field. I know spicy books are all the rage right now… and that’s great. But the graphic scenes in this book felt like they belonged in some erotica novel… not in a cute rom-com kind of book. As we got further through the book, I just felt like a lot of the spicy scenes were put in there just to have them there… not because we needed them… or that they even fit with the characters. It was just really jarring for me and it actually made me not like the book as much. I am all for a steamy scene… when it fits into the theme of the book. Here it just… didn’t.

It was a good book overall… I loved the representation and the hilarious moments… but honestly the spice just made it lose a bit of its magic for me, and I ended up disliking that. I’m not sure if I will continue the series, as someone in my book club said the spice gets a bit worse as you go through the series so maybe this one just isn’t for me.

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