Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Just barely gets 4 stars from me. Talia Hibbert's voice doesn't quite work for me, although I admire a lot about her books. We totally need a black, curvy heroine with chronic pain issues who finds her HEA with a wonderful guy. I like that he is the caretaker and she is the grumpy one. I think Hibbert does a great job at showing Chloe and Red gradually fall in love through their shared conversations and experiences. But the type of snarky humor she readily employs comes across as too cutesy and unrealistic, and I thought the last minute crisis was manufactured, not earned. I didn't feel enough trauma from Red's previous relationship that I could understand and forgive his explosive angry outburst at Chloe.

I'm glad that this author is getting rave reviews and that this book is on many reviewers' Top 10 lists for 2019. To me, it was a good contemporary romance but not an especially memorable one.