Get a Life, Chloe Brown

By: Talia Hibbert

Rating

★★★★★

Steam

★★★★

Get a Life, Chloe Brown is probably one of my favorite books at the moment. A classic enemies to lovers rom-com with so much heart, and humor, and representation for multiple mental and physical illnesses. Throughout this book I was constantly overwhelmed with how much it made me feel and how much I connected with the problems and internal struggles of the main characters. This book sucked me in within the first couple of pages with the character building, the banter, and the internal monolog.

After Chloe Brown had a near death experience with a drunk driver she decided to stop letting her Fibromyalgia hold her back and she left her small bubble of comfort and safety. Chloe made a list of things that she wanted to do that she hadn't done because of being scared of how her body would handle it and if it would fail her. To check off her first item, she moved out of her family's mansion and into a little flat where the handsome, tattooed, artist, sex-god, Redford is the handyman. After realizing that she wont be able to check off all of her “get a life” items herself, especially since on of them is, have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex, she decides that Red would be the perfect person to help her.

The two decide that they will help each other, Red will help her with her “get a life” list and Chloe will make him a website to sell his art. Even though Chloe doesn’t tell Red about the meaningless sex item on her list the back and forth flirty-ness of the two was very slow burn and enchanting. I loved that even in the beginning of the book it was so obvious that Red was really struggling with his desire towards Chloe.

“High up on the list of annoying thing about Chloe Brown was her beautiful bloody face. She had the kind of brilliant, decadent, Rococo beauty that made his fingers itch to grab a pencil or a paintbrush, It was ridiculously over the top: gleaming brown skin, winged eyebrows with a slightly sarcastic tilt, a mouth you could sink into like a feather bed. She had no business looking like that. None at all.” ― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

I love how the book showed Chloe's illness as something that stopped her from doing certain things but also the internal fights she had with herself. Early on when Red started helping Chloe with her list, he found out about her illness, and although Chloe resisted at first, he helped her do basic things and even remained her when she should take a break. As someone who also needs to remember to slow down and realize that you can’t power through everything I thought this was very cute of Red. He never made her feel like less of a person for how her body is and took things at her pace and still admired her and made her feel wanted.

“He was probably the worst kind of monster because Chloe was sick, but he still thought she was unbelievably sexy. Then he remembered that she was always sick, so maybe poor health wasn’t something that should de-sex a person.” ― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

I loved Chloe in this book and saw a lot of my self in it. She shows that just because she is chronically ill and constantly in pain if your with the right person who does not see you as a hinderance you can do anything. Even when things got bad for Chloe she celebrated the little things and I think that is something that everyone needs to remember. Even though it’s hard and painful at times celebrate the little things.

When she was sick and tired of being sick and tired, she clung to moments like this : The first shower after a flare-up. Bliss should be held on to with both hands." ― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Red was constantly taking Chloe out of her comfort zone while still thinking about her wellbeing and wants. While out on the town Cloe needs to take a break and they sit at a fountain so she can catch her breath. while sitting on the fountain, with Chloe sitting between his legs, Red decided they should play "I want".

He groaned. Pressed his face against the back of her neck. "My turn." "Tell me" "I want to see you. Right now, in the light. I want to see how you look when you're so turned on its making you shake." ― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Overall this book was insanely funny, steamy, and thought provoking. You will root for the main characters the whole time and feel everything they do along the way. I caught myself laughing out loud, blushing, and crying at some points while reading this to a point where my dad asked me if I was okay. After I finished reading I was looking up the author and was ecstatic when I saw that there were two other books about Chloe's two sisters and I immediately bought them and picked them up the same day. I definitely recommend this book to anyone that enjoys funny, hot, books that have so much realness in them.

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