She is almost always in pain and often runs out of “spoons” for days at a time. The representation in this novel is terrific. Chloe and Red’s growing relationship feels authentic and real: joyful and heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant in ways I can’t explain without spoilers, but which left me uplifted and smiling from ear to ear. Chloe’s wake-up call, the brush with death that opens the book, made me instantly sympathetic, but it took me a little longer to truly warm up to her because she’s often curt and sometimes rude (mostly a defense mechanism, as I quickly realized.) Nonetheless she has a great sense of humor and a boatload of courage, and by the end of the cat-rescue scene she had completely won me over.

Every subsequent scene just helped cement that first impression: he’s a gentle giant with a very soft heart. I fell for Red in his very first scene, warming to his empathy for a casserole-making tenant. What really makes it stand out is how well Hibbert writes the two main characters, capturing their strengths and their fears, their hopes and their pain, and the ways their various coping mechanisms both help them and stand in their way. It’s hilarious - I laughed out loud at the wry, witty exchanges between Chloe and Red (their emails, OMG!) - and heartbreaking by turns. Warm, funny, emotional, sexy, and insightful, Get a Life, Chloe Brown hit all the right notes for me it’s easily one of the best books I have read this year so far. This book contains mature content and may not be suitable for younger readers. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior… And why he never shows his art to anyone. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.īut when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. 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. Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job. Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.īut it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly.Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.After almost-but not quite-dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion.

Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Bookshop | Barnes & NobleĬhloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. ★★★★★ Geat a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert

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