Act Your Age, Eve Brown

by Talia Hibbert

Other authorsAshley Caswell (Cover designer)

Ebook, 2021

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The third in a series of contemporary romances featuring a diverse cast of characters and centered around three British sisters. Eve is the youngest and as the title implies, has had a hard time growing up in the shadow of her highly accomplished older sisters and parents. But when she stumbles

into a job as the chef at a B&B she finds her purpose in life and her soul mate. As one does.

I found the plot machinations strained credulity just a bit too much for me to fully enjoy the narrative, and both the obligatory "obstacle in the path of true love" and the resolution to be frankly beyond suspension of disbelief. But I really appreciate having the opportunity to read about people beyond the standard race/age/mental health status that is the usual fare, so bonus points for that. Of the three, I would rank the second one [Take a Hint, Dani Brown] as first, and the first [Get a Life, Chloe Brown] as second,.

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Fiction. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Talia Hibbert's newest rom-com, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard�??literally. Featured on Parade, PopSugar, Marie Claire, Oprah Mag, Bustle, Shondaland, CNN.com, Kirkus Magazine, Bookpage, USA Today, Bookish, Bookriot, and more! Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong. So she's given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It's time for Eve to grow up and prove herself�??even though she's not entirely sure how... Jacob Wayne is in control. Always. The bed and breakfast owner's on a mission to dominate the hospitality industry and he expects nothing less than perfection. So when a purple-haired tornado of a woman turns up out of the blue to interview for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. Then she hits him with her car�??supposedly by accident. Yeah, right. Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to help. Before long, she's infiltrated his work, his kitchen�??and his spare bedroom. Jacob hates everything about it. Or rather, he should. Sunny, chaotic Eve is his natural-born nemesis, but the longer these two enemies spend in close quarters, the more their animosity turns into something else. Like Eve, the heat between them is impossible to ignore... and it's melting Jacob's frosty ex… (more)