Book Review: “Get a Life, Chloe Brown” by Talia Hibbert

Feb 10

Håfa adai! Welcome to my spoiler-free review of Get a Life, Chloe Brown, the first book of The Brown Sisters series by Talia Hibbert.

This book review consists of two parts: a brief plot summary and my thoughts of the story. There may be some lightweight spoilers—such as how characters interact with each other and the world around them—but I will not give away any major plot twists or endings. I want to share my opinion of the book and encourage you to purchase a copy of your own.

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Spoiler-Free Plot Summary

Chloe Brown is a “Type A” computer geek from a high society background. After a close call health scare—a seemingly daily hazard of living with fibromyalgia—she decides that her chronic illness is no longer going to stop her from living life to the fullest. Her first step is to create a structured list of how to break the rules. But having lived life as a serial rule follower has not exactly prepared Chloe for the change she wants to go through. She will need help from someone comfortable with not conforming. Someone like Red.

Redford “Red” Morgan is an artistic, tattooed, motorcycle-riding handyman working in Chloe’s apartment complex. He’s had his brush with high society, and he highly suspects that Chloe is no different—and possibly worse—than a certain someone from his past. But maybe there is hope for high society Chloe to gain a new perspective on living independently from Red’s working-class background. And perhaps Red can gain a new perspective on learning to be vulnerable from Chloe’s genuine approach to being honest with oneself.

Important Trigger Warning for Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Get a Life, Chloe Brown contains a scene that briefly discusses a character’s experience with domestic violence without outright depicting it. This discussion is essential to the plot. If this topic would cause you stress or distress in any way, then please take the necessary precautions to protect yourself before and after experiencing this story.

My Thoughts on Get a Life, Chloe Brown: 4 stars

Talia Hibbert’s Get a Life, Chloe Brown, the first book in the Brown Sisters series, paints an erotic romance to explore themes of abandonment, surviving domestic violence, and living with chronic pain to deliver meaningful survivor and disability representation. Scenes of sex and intimacy in Get a Life, Chloe Brown are graphic, taking a literal and explicit approach to describing the physical act of sex. So this story would be more appropriate to readers above a certain age group and/or for those who are more comfortable with such scenes.

Get a Life, Chloe Brown utilizes the “enemy to lovers” trope of romance storytelling. I appreciate the ways in which Talia Hibbert employs this trope to present believable ways two strangers could develop misinformed internal narratives of how the other person perceives them. Although the experiences Chloe and Red have had that cause them to believe the other person dislikes (or even hates) them are valid, their choices to believe that their respective assumptions are true are unfair to themselves and the other person. And when confronted with new information demonstrating their assumptions are false, they choose to challenge their own ways of thinking, even if they make mistakes along the way.

I give Get a Life, Chloe Brown 4 out of 5 stars. I was gifted a paperback copy of Get a Life, Chloe Brown by a dear friend of mine, and I am glad I got to experience this story! The backstories, tension, family dynamics, friendship, and romance portrayed in this story are well developed, meaningful, and believable. Talia Hibbert’s prose is insightful and emotional without being melodramatic. I appreciate the ways Talia Hibbert frames survivor and disability representation as being vital aspects of the individual characters and their respective story arcs without using them as plot devices. I also enjoyed how the dialogue and dynamics between Chloe and Red changed and grew over the course of their romance. I recommend Get a Life, Chloe Brown to fans of erotic romance looking for multiple levels of representation in the stories they consume.

Dångkulo' na' saina ma'åse'! Thank you so much for reading my review of Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert.

Rating Cheat Sheet

4.75 - 5.00 stars: Everyone should read this book! (If you’re into that sort of thing.)
4.00 - 4.50 stars: I appreciated many aspects of this book. I recommend it!
3.00 - 3.75 stars: I liked some aspects of this book. I won’t revisit it, but someone else might really like it.
2.00 - 2.75 stars: There were some things I appreciated about this book, but I do not recommend it.
0.25 - 1.75 stars: I do not recommend this book. I did not enjoy or appreciate the experience of it.

Post Date: 3 October 2025