Get a Life, Chloe Brown
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Average rating3.9
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When I picked this up it was because I wanted to try and read some romance. I don't very often, I just read Emily Henry's yearly releases and that's it for me. I had high hopes since this was a recommendation from a friend, and at the beginning it was just as charming as I expected! Chloe and Red's meet cute was funny, I loved their banter! But then they got together-ish and that was it for me. I disliked that from that moment on, their relationship revolved around the fact that they had the hots for each other. I wanted more depth, and less usage of the word ‘nectar' as an euphemism for... you know...
It was okay and I liked it well enough, but I think I'm done with this series.
A representatividade neste livro é incrivel e amo tudo sobre ele menos os dois ultimos capitulos (parece que a autora tinha um limite de palavras e resolveu todos os poblemas nesses dois capitulos) mas overall vale as 5 estrelas
Mal posso esperar para o livro da Dani (que ainda este mês tenho na minha estante) e da EVE que eu realmente amei como personagem (mas que não tem previsão para porugal :c )
Cute. Adorable. Amusing. I did wish there were more family moments for both Chloe and Red. But it was still so much fun to read. Red feels about Chloe the way I feel about my wife, basically. D'oh! Anyway, yeah. Loved it, though might love Eve's book just a little more. We'll see what happens when I finally get hold of Dani's book.
On recommendation from some book friends I read this one and I'm glad I did.
Chloe is amazing. She has taken a crippling disability, embarked on some scary changes, and made her life, and herself much improved.
Red is equally amazing. Coming from an abusive relationship, he takes the path needed to heal, while essentially healing some parts of Chloe too.
Love isn't perfect, and neither are people. Realizing who you are, that you need help, getting that help and making life changes is what allows healing and personal growth.
Don't read much romance, but I really liked this! I enjoyed the male lead, and thought the romance was cute.
AMÉ ESTE LIBRO QUEEE
me tenía chillando y riéndome todo el rato, amo la forma de narrar de esta autora literal me enamoré.
amé también a los personajes, chloe y red son tan 💌💫💘❤💞🧸🌈🔆🫀💐🥰 voy a llorar de lo mucjo q los amo
la representación es chef's kiss
no sé qué más decir sólo que estoy completamente enamorada de absolutamente todo (excepto la ruptura al final, pq siempre pasa eso) es un libro tan hermoso. definitivamente voy a leer los demás porque me encariñé con las hermanas de chloe y quiero saber qué es de sus vidas 💞💞💞
Wow, this was such an annoying read! Chloe Sophia Brown comes across as a pampered, snobby whiny, weak damsel in distress who needs rescuing. From this outset, I already didn't like her. Someone who describes herself like this... “This mind-blowing bore had zero friends, hadn't traveled in a decade despite plenty of opportunity, liked to code on the weekends, and never did anything that wasn't scheduled in her planner. Don't cry for her; she's in a better place now. Even Heaven can't be that dull.” ... is simply someone who is wallowing in her own shitty quality of life. Chloe thinks, feels and behaves like a victim of her fibromyalgia (chronic pain, pressure sensitivity, tiredness, sleep problems, etc.) and Hibbert never ceases to emphasize how horribly suffering her heroine is. Not only from her illness but from being abandoned by her ex-fiancé, every single friend she ever had (we ask ourselves: what kind of “friends” were those?), her family (apart from her sisters) and who knows whom else.In addition to being ill, Chloe is overweight and black. At times, I've wondered how Hibbert managed to not make her an amputee as well or clinically depressed or maybe blind... Yes, sorry, I'm being sarcastic because Chloe was so annoying. Then there's her “love interest”, Redford “Red” Morgan, whose previous relationship was with some kind of glamour girl who oh-so-horribly abused the poor guy: She hated his motorcycle but used it for glamour photos. Wow! What abuse...Furthermore, she is described as somewhat bitchy. It was all so horrible that poor Red (who is, of course, a ginger!) fled London and, gasp, changed and tried something new! What tragic development! Apart from that he's an uneducated moron who doesn't know the word “indisposed” and reacts to it like this: “He was going to have to buy a bloody dictionary to keep up with her vocab, but he could read between the lines.” Or he could take some English lessons and, thus, extend his two-hundred-words vocabulary. In addition said vocabulary seems to be dominated by the word “fucking”. It features prominently in every second sentence or thought of his. (Chloe has a similarly obsessive relationship with the word “pussy”...)I'm not averse to some swearing but does it have to be all the time? “He watched her as closely as he could, which was pretty fucking close.” and next he decides to tell Chloe “You're cute as fuck, you know that?” - why? Is there really a woman who would want to hear that? (I have no doubt there are enormous numbers of male morons who think so...) And Chloe swoons at that... Red, at times, is outright creepy, e. g. when he “[drinks] in every detail like some sexually deprived Victorian bloke”. Urks... At other times, he's more of an animal: “She snorted, rolling her eyes, but he could tell she was pleased. It oozed out of her like jam from a layer cake, and he was lapping the sweetness up, desperate for more.” Is he a dog?! When it comes to creepy, Chloe isn't exactly innocent either: “This hunger was urging her to sneak inside his head and devour everything she came across. But that would be a little creepy, possibly violent, and probably illegal, so she settled for asking questions.” “Possibly violent”? Devouring his brain? Thanks, but no thanks! Last but not least, the book is full of what my children kindly informed me is called “fake-depth” or calendar mottos to me: “Bliss should be held on to with both hands.”“Good things usually hurt in the end.” Ultimately, this book failed miserably for me on many levels: For a mindless romance (which I expected) it's too complicated; for a serious book, it's too shallow and simple.In the end, to me this book was one of suffering - of Chloe's and of mine reading this stuff... Blog Facebook Twitter Instagram
My first book by this author, and I'm pleasantly surprised.
Very charming and cute. It had a balance of humour and sincerity.
I've had this book since 2019 and I think I avoided this because I usually do not like romance. But I do appreciate when the MCs in romances have characteristics people like to avoid (fatness, disability, etc). Not only does it separate it from other romance novels, but it also just shows the nuances in relationships where people are struggling with disabilities/issues.
I loved the banter between these two. I honestly wished the tension was extended even farther. I love a slow burn and this, personally, could've been so much slow. I think it's pretty obvious that the gem of this book was the fresh and romantic sex scenes! Smut is often too repetitive to me and each scene here felt unique.
Another great aspect of this is how, with Red's situation, how it shows the way abuse affects our behavior, sometimes manifesting as self sabotage. This is why I actually really appreciated the fight at the ending. This book tackles a) how abuse and past trauma must be worked through, as to not make both partners suffer and make destructive decisions and b) partners should catch on to limits and accommodations needed to help the people they love, instead of pretending their disabilities/limits don't exist. I just wished we'd gotten to this sooner. It was over right as it started.
So much of his art stuff did not hit emotionally to me for this same reason. His insecurity over his artwork was relatable obviously, but there was very little else to latch on to until we were provided context. Both Chloe and Red are imperfect in the way they handle their issues and it would've been more emotional had we understood why from the beginning (or at least earlier).
