This would be fine if Hibbert was simply writing fan fiction. This leaves the Brown sisters in limbo as characters and makes this series little more than a trumped-up sex fantasy for readers. Nor do they show a complete showing of the Brown sisters’ racial background. These close readings led me to the conclusion that while Hibbert’s books are great for their showing of differently-abled and neurodiverse characters (Eve and Chloe’s characters are especially excellent in this regard), they don’t have fleshed out backstories for characters. This was actually helpful for me as a reader because I got to read all the books in rapid succession. However, Hibbert wrote Chloe to be in her mid-thirties, which made listening to Andoh’s interpretation of Chloe’s voice taxing on my nerves.Īt one point, this audio narration made me put Chloe’s book down for almost six months and didn’t pick it up again until the final books in the series were out. This could’ve worked if Chloe’s character was meant to be a woman well into her sixties. Speaking of which, even though I love the narrator of Dani and Eve’s books, Ione Butler, the audio narrator for Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Adjoa Andoh, was not my favorite.Īndoh’s narration made Chloe read as if she was someone’s nan out on a bucket list adventure trying to get laid.
And by the time the big “payoff” was finally revealed, I was just ready to throw the whole audiobook away. Eve and Chloe’s story felt fragmented, and the constant anticipation of an “angsty” reveal for these sisters and their love interests left me drained. The one saving grace with Dani’s story is that Dani and her love interest, Zafir, were given exciting and fully fleshed-out backstories that were revealed early on, and this kept me interested. While this approach could be a plus short-term, it irritated me and made me disconnect from the books halfway through each story, with the exception of Take a Hint, Dani Brown. Instead, it felt as if all of the sisters were written by Hibbert for her readers to have a “fill in the blank” experience where that person could scribe themselves onto the sisters when it was time for the “steamy” scenes to jump off. I say this because not one of the Brown sisters feels as if they were written with depth to their characters. And, yes, the middle sister, Danika (Dani for short), does get a love interest of ambiguous Middle Eastern descent.īut, just like I mentioned in my review of Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender, I can’t help but feel as if Hibbert uses the same method of turning her Black and Brown characters into caricatures as Callendar does in their book as a means of ticking off the diversity box.
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