A complete conclusive review of the Brown sister series by Talia Hibbert
Dear Reader,
I hope you all had a lovely Easter and are all enjoying this blogpost over a nice pint in a beer garden somewhere up Soho. If you're not what the bugger are you doing here? Go, be gone, booze awaits you pandemic survivor! We'll be here for you when your smacked out of your head tomorrow morning x
Greetings my Blootered Beauties! Sorry that was a bit loud, turn that brightness down for Godsake. As I am not old enough to enjoy fully the return to the Pubus Maximus, I have spent the last few weeks binging this series, which I believe got me to that same level of Ecstasy.
This book series is absolutely fabulous. It's stifle your snorts on the bus funny, God I should not be reading this in public sexy, and bloody hell I'm single heartwarming. Only just kidding about that last one as these books are all I will ever need. Unless of course Jacob, Zaf or Red decide to show up at my door, but other than that I am very content with my three paper-bound companions, and a large mug of tea.
More than even the men, I feel in love with these girls from the first page, they were witty and awfully relatable, smart, independent and fabulous. I adored them, and their exemplary choice in men.
These books are extremely floopy, physically and internally, these girls and their family and friends are loopy as anything but some of the most loving character I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know. Having two sisters myself, that twining string of sisterhood that runs through these books was divine, how they helped each other grow and strengthen was gorgeous to see and beautifully written. I couldn't get enough of their dynamic. Even characters like Gigi and Shivani were such lovely additions to the Brown girls. They acted like candles on the side of a lovely, warm, bubbly bath that was the comfort that came with these romances.
The romances were a joy to read and wonderful in their complexity and steady progression. The pacing was just right and heart-melting at every turn. Each love interest was so well developed and received, you couldn't help falling head-over-heals for them. Something else Talia pulled off effortlessly, was that rollercoaster we went through with all three romances. When the fall happened, or something went very wrong, we were right there with our characters, feeling everything they felt. We had love for both in the relationship and for each argument we could clearly see both sides and all the underlying dynamics of past trauma and present that was hurting everyone involved, which gave us so much compassion and love for them, as opposed to some romances were you just see the girl crying other the boy because she thinks he's cheating and there is zero communication. It's not like that with these three pairs, we root for them the whole way through. Which is completely up to Talia's brilliant writing and character development.
I have never seen someone work so wonderfully with gameful premise in all my literary adventures. Talia can take a concept we've all seen a million times, strip it down to its core and add so much of that unique character, dress it up in sparkles and a sh*t tone of glitter, and send it out into the world with a writing style that is so uniquely Hibbert. My favourite out of the three was the second book, take a hint Dani Brown. Being a lover of the fake boyfriend trope myself, this book had no faults. The PHD aspect was so interesting and Dani's love for witchcraft was such a fun and unique character quality you don't read about enough in adult fiction. Zaf's backstory and development in this book was original and so much more progressed than most of the romances I've read. It was just lovely.
My least favourite out of the three I'd have to say was the third installment, act your age, Eve Brown. Now now, when I say least favourite I mean that very lightly as all these books brought me so much joy and it was probably the funniest out of the three however, the gameful trope we see in the first two, with Chloe and her list to get a life and Dani with her subduction-fake-girlfriend scheme, was I believe missing from this last book. The plot and story were still unique and cozy, but I went into it expecting that twist that never came. Not many authors can pull off tropes in full anymore, since most are so overused and that is something I greatly admire about Talia's work, that she can think up such brilliant ideas and combine it with great writing that really pulls her books aside from the genre. When the biggest trope in Eve Brown's book was the 'I hit my sexy, unfairly attractive employer with my car' I was slightly amiss. Never the less, what an adorable romance it was, I still loved every minute of it and would recommend it to anyone.
Talia's trilogy will always hold a soft spot in my heart, and I will most definitely be re-reading the first two very soon.
Let me know your thoughts on this series, and what you want me to read next.
Until next time,
With love,
Izz x
