After a brush with death, Chloe makes herself a “get a life” list, determined to get herself out of the bubble of fear and caution she’s lived in since her diagnosis turned her life topsy-turvy. Get a Life, Chloe Brown chronicles this in unflinching fashion, all the while making it clear that the limitations of your illness should never be a burden to those who are supposed to love you most. It’s an invisible illness, one that means you can look like a twee picture of retro perfection on the outside and feel like the fire salamanders from Harry Potter are eating you alive on the inside. We don’t often get incredibly personal in critical reviews here, but Hibbert’s novel can’t help but be personal for me - like Chloe Brown, I have fibromyalgia. That was my experience reading Get a Life, Chloe Brown. It can turn you upside down and shake everything up and spit you back out with all your bits and bobs rearranged to give you a more complete picture of yourself than you’ve ever had before. And why he never shows his art to anyone.Review: Sometimes a book can change your life. 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. do something bad.īut it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. The next items?Įnjoy a drunken night out.Ride a motorcycle.Go camping.Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.And. 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. Talia Hibbert, one of contemporary romance’s brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things-perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory, and Helen Hoang!Ĭhloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page.” – Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Bride Test
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