Funny, r0mantic, sexy. The writing is addictive and you just want to keep reading and get more engrossed in Danika and Zafir's story. I loved the characters and their story and didn't want it to end.

Danika is successful, passionate and bisexual. She has a witchy vibe. Zafir is a Pakistani-Muslim rugby player that rescues her from a fire drill, which goes virall, They start a fake relationship to help Zafir's rugby charity. But we all know what fake relationships mean in rom-coms.

This book was the perfect happy, fun book to read when you are looking for something frothy and fun!

My goodness I LOVE me some Talia Hibbert! The Brown sister books never fail to deliver. Hibbert hits all the right notes. There is always a great balance of quirky humanity, steam factor and heart. Mental health is always handled with care and used to build a compelling story versus being thrown in as an extra. I absolutely devoured this book and can't wait to read Eve's story!

The second book in the Brown Sisters series by Talia Hibbert, follows sister Danika (super intelligent professor, stylish, witchy woman) and her quest to find her next f🤬ck buddy. Her words not mine. The universe is giving her very BIG signs but can Dani take a hint?

Buckle up because we are about to find out. Just like in her previous book. Hibbert writes genuine characters with such human flaws that you can’t help but love them and root for their happy endings. I loved her love interest Zafir and how his depression and the dealing with the death of his family members was handled. He was such a well defined character and not to mention sexy as hell. The love scenes! Woah baby!I loved their relationship. And again, the alternate chapters with their points of view only enhanced my understandingly them and their relationship. .

Highly recommend and I can’t wait for the next book in this series!

This was so cute! I loved their relationship. Both characters were really well formed, interesting people with great back stories. I enjoyed the other characters too and loved the dialogue - smart, sassy, and fun. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the digital ARC.

This was the perfect follow up to "Get a Life, Chloe Brown" and it was really fun getting to see Dani. It was pretty graphic at times but such a lovely story and very well written.

Dani Brown loves her work and often gets so caught up in it she forgets what time it is. It’s one of the biggest things stopping her from being in a romantic relationship, so she’s decided she’ll just have sleeping buddies. And she’s asking the world for a new one.

Zafir Ansari is the brooding security guard, ex-professional rugby player, at the college building where Dani teaches. Everyone thinks he’s grumpy and after he saves Dani from a building fire drill gone wrong, she realizes they’re destined to sleep together.

After a video goes viral of Zafir saving Dani with the hashtag #DrRugBae, Zaf asks Dani to go along with the fake relationship since his sports charity for kids is finally gaining traction. Dani agrees and her plan is simple: fake a relationship to the public and seduce Zaf behind the scenes. But Zaf is a hopeless romantic and is working on changing Dani’s mind about relationships.

I loved this book so much. You get to see glimpses of Chloe and Red (not really updates on them, but at least they pop up).

The book switches views between Dani and Zafir and I loved it. I actually loved Zaf more than Dani. And I loved this story more than the Chloe Brown story – the falling out, that happens in every rom-com, was more believable in this book.

I also loved the discussions around mental health. It definitely made anxiety and depression seem more normal.

I’d also like to mention that the sex scenes aren’t as graphic in this book. I loved Chloe Brown and I’ve heard friends be surprised by the sex scenes. Dani Brown had maybe one sex scene and then it would mention they were having sex. I’m not mentioning this as a good or bad thing, just a content warning for others who may or may not read a book based on the scenes.

I give this 4/5 stars. I’d also like to thank Netgalley and Talia Hibbert for an advanced copy of this book.

A delight follow up to Get a Life, Chloe Brown with Hibbert’s skill at creating fully realized, complicated, but absolutely love able characters on full display. I rooted for them every stop of the way!

Another winner from my favorite romance author.

Get a Life, Chloe Brown was an unexpected champion of the 2019 fall semester for me -- the audiobook got me through the worst finals season of my life, and getting approved for and reading the arc a few months prior got my semester started on a high note.

So it means something, coming from me, when I say that Take a Hint, Dani Brown is bolder and funnier and more romantic and easily my favorite romance of 2020 so far. I made a note in my arc every time I felt overwhelmed with emotions over Dani and Zaf, and friends; it was fourteen times. Fourteen times that I felt my heart beat faster with excitement or I swooned over something romantic or I teared up because of something touching or emotional.

The characters, like in Chloe Brown, are the shining stars of this story. Dani and Zaf are so lovable, I just want to give them both big hugs at their earliest possible convenience. I loved the way this story leaned into its tropes in the most delicious ways while still subverting them in others, keeping me entertained and exhilarated. I loved that they both have hobbies and passions and friends and family members that are huge parts of their lives; I loved that Dani would never cancel on her sisters; I loved how close Zaf was with his sister-in-law; I loved that Gigi continues to be iconic; I loved that this book spent paragraphs talking directly to me about how both Zaf and I love romance novels.

More importantly, I continue to love the care and attention Talia Hibbert puts into making her stories authentically diverse. Dani is bisexual, and it meant so much to me that her sexuality is such a huge part of who she is, especially when this story is about her romance with a man. Zaf has an anxiety disorder, and I felt so seen when he spoke about his journey and his experiences and how coping is hard and there is no right way to live with anxiety and how sometimes it's hard to tell what's anxiety and what's just logic and how it will often just be there, under the radar, but that it doesn't have to control you.

I think it's clear that the reason why I loved this book so much is that it has all of the things I loved about Chloe Brown (the humor, the charm, the swoon-worthy romance) with the addition of a few forms of representation that spoke to me, personally. But even if I could step out of my own skin, I would have loved this story -- it made me laugh, it made me grin in front of my probably confused family members, it made me cry.

You are not going to want to miss Dani Brown.

I read Get A Life, Chloe Brown and enjoyed it so when I saw the next book focused on Dani Brown, I couldn’t wait to read it! Take A Hint, Dani Brown was even better for me than the first Brown Sister book. I read it in a day and loved the strong, quirky, unapologetic, confident, uber academic nerd that is Danika Brown! Zafir was also a perfect book hero for me! I loved the broody, secretly sweet, funny, “murder face”, ex-rugby player who was holding out for a happily ever after when he’d dealt with a crippling family tragedy. I LOVED Zaf’s charity that targets toxic masculinity and mental health in the book and I wish that all athletic institutions would jump on this bandwagon to Tackle It! *read the book and you’ll get what I did there* This book had two of my favorite tropes; fake relationship and friends to lovers! Aside from the stellar romance and relationship, I loved the theme in both of the existing Brown Sisters books that recovery and healing aren’t instant and there isn’t a magical point where everything is better and that mental health issues are as real and important as any other illness. In both books, Hibbert makes a point to have a character discuss that getting better doesn’t mean that you always have to be OK. Bravo! I also loved all the cultures represented in this book, I found this series because I was seeking out Own Voices books and diversity in main characters, so this series ticked all the boxes! I will probably reread Take A Hint, Dani Brown, and cannot wait to see what is in store for the last Brown sister!

Talia Hibbert does it again! This was one of my most highly anticipated reads for 2020 and it did not disappoint! Dani was such a great, diverse character and the mental health advocacy and integration was done impeccably well. It had all of the elements of a fun, sassy, STEAMY romance, while staying true to real life issues, difficulties and touched on deeper themes such as loss and anxiety. I love Hibbert's writing style: banter, banter, banter with a touch of sex and cup or two of intentional incorporation of sensitive topics that allow us to connect to the characters and stories more deeply. Bravo!

Hibbert continues her standout romantic comedy series about the Brown sisters. This time, the universe plants the perfect friend-with-benefits in front of Dani in the shape of ex-rugby player Zaf and conspires for them to be together after a faux rescue goes viral. Tackling emotions, including scarring from past events and anxiety, is a theme for both characters. Mental health is discussed with heart, including the fact that staying healthy is a continual process where coping includes struggling. These characters have a hopeful perspective that resonates during the current pandemic; I ended up highlighting MANY passages when I normally don't highlight at all.

The author shows the harmful result of toxic masculinity and the benefit of men having the tools to understand and express emotions. This includes a subplot about Zaf’s attraction to romance novels because they are about people who had “been through the worst and found happiness anyway.” The book slowly builds the steamy, banter-filled, and supportive dynamic between charming, realistic, and engaging characters.

Recommended for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Helen Hoang, and Alyssa Cole. This Own Voices book is the second in a series featuring multicultural characters.

This is just a delight. Talia Hibbert's characters are warm and funny and you root for them to find love.

Dani wants a sign. Zaf checks his email. Hang on, don't think this is random. This is important.

Dani Brown doesn't do relationships. It's not her thing. Not that she has time for them, anyway, as she is a PhD student and gearing up for the biggest moment of her professional life. That doesn't stop her from praying to Oshun to send her someone to, uh, keep her company. Or ogling the hot angry security guard at the building she works at.

Zafir Ansari doesn't mean to look angry all the time--it's just his face. A former pro-ruby player, Zaf spends his time coaching rugby, working on his nonprofit Tackle It, and pining over gorgeous (and maybe gay?) Dani Brown. It doesn't matter. He doesn't really have time for a relationship. He just needs to focus on building Tackle It, and promoting his workshops for helping young men and boys conquer toxic masculinity.

Then a drill happens in their shared building that ends with Zaf heroically carrying Dani out of the building, and then #Dr.Rugbae is all over the internet. Dani shrugs it off while Zaf freaks out as his past is revealed... but is pleasantly surprised when the internet stardom leads to an influx of donations to Tackle It--enough to fully get it off the ground. When Zaf presents the idea of fake dating for a month, Dani agrees; she can fake it for a good cause, and she likes Zaf well enough. What could possibly go wrong? And can Dani Brown finally take a hint?

An amazing second book in the Brown Sisters series, "Take a Hint, Dani Brown" is full of laughs, sass, and fluff. So much fluff. It is a mixture of everything one loves in a romance: friends-to-lovers, fake dating, and, of course, happily ever afters. It was wonderful to return to the Brown sisters and see Chloe and Red again, but even better to get to know Dani beyond the lens of her sister's eyes.

Dani is a fabulous, strong, dedicated woman and Zaf is so supportive of her! Dani wants to be her own person outside of being defined a relationship--fine and healthy!--and she goes through some serious personal growth as she figures out how to mesh her long-term goals and new things that she wants. Namely, something more than a casual relationship. And Zaf. I love Zaf! Zaf is an amazing hero, with an amazing family and best friend, and he's such a big grumpy-faced teddy bear who is an anxious mess who loves romance novels and his niece and helping people. I want a Zaf.

I'm very interested to see what awaits the final Brown sister, Eve, in her book!

I don't know how Talia Hibbert manages the balance of charm and sheer horniness in her novels, but nobody does it like her! This book, which could otherwise be seen as a pretty standard fake dating narrative, is made special by the specific details she imbues into the world of the book and its characters. I absolutely love how Dani's story is underpinned by her witchy practices. I love the presence of romance novels within the book; I'm always a sucker for that. There's a sort of "newlywed game" scene in this book that is just so, so great. My one ding is that I'm never very excited for tension in a relationship because one of the people just "doesn't do relationships." It's just not a very compelling impediment to a relationship for me. That said, the sheer charm offensive of this book made that a very minor quibble.

***Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.***

Earlier this year I won Get a Life, Chloe Brown in a giveaway and while it was way out of my comfort zone, I did enjoy it. There were lots of scenes that were far to explicit and steamy for my reading preferences. But I enjoyed the story and the idea of someone overcoming their anxieties and barriers in life to find love and success. So when I saw Take a Hint, Dani Brown available for review on Netgalley, I thought I'd like to see where she'd take the story.

Dani and Zafir are much more likable characters than Chloe and Red. I found myself really rooting for them. Dani is quirky and intelligent but emotionally stunted. Zafir is deep and passionate and riddled with anxiety. They are both overwhelmingly relatable. Their banter is fun and I loved the flip flop of the man obsessed with romance and the woman not.

I think if you are not the type to be bothered overtly sexual scenes (borderline porn) and read the story for the characters and their development then you will enjoy this story.

This book was so different than Chloe Brown, but still so incredibly great (I loved Chloe big time) in that Talia Hibbert way. Zaf was adorable, and I loved how he dealt with his issues in such a grown up way. Dani was snappy and wonderful. I wished she talked about her issues just a little bit more, but I still loved her.

Fun and light hearted with a little heat. An excellent follow-up to "Chloe Brown, Get a Life" with appearances from all the sisters. I can't wait to read Evie's story.

Dani Brown is an eminently lovable heroine—driven, nerdy, compassionate, and scared of a relationship. The chemistry in this book was palpable, and I was rooting for the couple to get together the whole time. Charming, funny, sweet, and socially-conscious. Can't wait for the third book with the Brown girls!

Absolutely loved this one! Follow up to Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Hibbert sparkles again. She writes representation into her novels with care and grace.

Talia Hibbert does it again! Such unexpected bits of humor that you can't stop reading for fear of missing even a bit. I think I need to read both of her books again to make sure I didn't! Her characters are so well drawn, you feel like you know them and want them in your living room. I really love that her characters are always true to themselves and willing to look at what is keeping them from moving forward. Can't wait for the next in this series!