Author: Talia Hibbert
Year published: 2021
Category: Adult fiction (romance)
Pages: 375
Rating: 4 out of 5
Location: (my 2025 Google Reading map): UK
Summary: In this charming romantic comedy, 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 grumpy, autistic 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 a sizzling enemies-to-lovers romance. Like Eve, the heat between them is impossible to ignore... and it’s melting Jacob’s frosty exterior.
Review: I just finished reading a totally intense book and knew that my psyche needed a light romance where everyone would be happy by the end. I figured this book would fit the bill. I liked Hibbert's other book that I read, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (link to my review). I didn't realize there are three books in the series, one about each sister.
Eve Brown is chaotic, unfocused, and unpredictable. At least that's what her family says and what she believes. She quits jobs quickly, lives off her trust fund, and doesn't have direction. So, when her parents cut her off financially for a year, she is on her own. And she finds a job. And a man.
In amongst all this (with lots of slapstick along the way), Eve begins to research online about how she feels and behaves, only to realize that she is probably on the autism spectrum. What I like is that she registers the information, takes it in, and moves on. It doesn't send her into a tailspin, doesn't cause her to alter her life; it just explains things to her. She likes who she is. Fantastic.
And the passion between her and Jacob (because this is a romance novel, after all) is fast, furious, and fun. I love that they are both so honest with one another in the throes of it all. I was looking for a book to enetertain me and give me a happy ending and that is exactly what I got.
Challenges for which this counts:
- Alphabet (Title)--A
- Mount TBR
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