I absolutely LOVED this book. It was funny, romantic, sexy, it was EVERYTHING. I was smiling and then blushing (SO much steam) and then laughing and then TEARED UP at the end.
Dare I say Eve is my favorite?!?!

In this third installment of the Brown Sisters series, we are given insight into the mind of Eve Brown. Eve is nothing like her sisters: she isn't driven like Dani and she certainly isn't organized like Chloe. No, Eve feels like a lost cause; worthless. When her parents essentially confirm her inner voice and cut her off for one year, Eve is in a tailspin. How will she find a job that sticks? Will she ever be enough?
Jacob owns a little bed and breakfast and is working towards recognition for his growing business. He's neat and organized, maybe even a little anal, but successful overall. Oh, and he has autism. It's not a big deal to Jacob, but not everyone treats him with respect or like an equal. What will happen when Eve literally crashes into his world?
What can I say? I absolutely love this series! I fell in love with Chloe’s story and have been so pleased to see Hibbert continue with the other sisters! This one was perhaps my favorite. Maybe it’s because I could relate to Eve the most, but I think it was also due to Jacob’s representation of autism. I love that Hibbert includes a marginalized community within each story. She provides such great and thoughtful representation. Eve's completely relatable narration only helps the story grow throughout the pages. I love the informal writing and realistic dialogue the most! It's not as cheesy as other romance books, which makes me want to continue reading (since I'm not rolling my eyes to the back of my skull).
I also enjoyed the setting of this book more than the others. I was reading it while curled up by the fire and something about the B&B really added to that comfort level. Even the living quarters of Jacob and Eve just set my mind at ease. It seemed so peaceful and cozy, just as a B&B should be.
Finally, I loved the body positivity! I'm so tired of reading books with female leads who are impeccable and the sex is revolved around her luscious and perfectly sculpted body. I would like more body positivity towards the male protagonists, too. I think it's an important thing to add, but I can understand why Jacob was described as he was. I honestly felt at home reading about Eve's insecurities and what later turns to acceptance. It was inspiring.
As much as I loved this book, however, I do have a few complaints. One, I wish autism was a little more hashed out. I understand that it's not a defining feature at all, but if Eve is going to make sudden realizations, I think it needs to be more apparent. I would have liked Jacob's background to be a little more prevalent. I would have liked his story to have more impact. I also want to note that there were a few instances where Jacob was referred to as autistic rather than someone with autism. It's such a minor transgression, but I know Hibbert wants to be as inclusive as possible. I think changing the language would go a long way for readers who have autism. Also, the sex scenes in this book made me a little more uncomfortable than the previous two. I don't know if it was the use of language, but I found myself skimming a little during those. I think that's my own personal preference, however, and many people will actually enjoy them. Finally, the relationship did feel a little rushed.. But, I can't actually fault the book for that! I love the short reads that don't drag out multiple break-ups, so I applaud Hibbert for her speed!
Overall, this book was wonderful and carried out my favorite traits of the series! I found myself dying to get back to the book and thinking about Eve and Jacob while I wasn't reading. It was such a fun, quick read and the romance truly helped me escape these trying times. Even though I received a free copy, I know I will also be buying the hardcopy once it’s released because it’s practically a sin not to.

I absolutely adored this book. It hooks you from the first page. The author is incredibly insightful in how she writes about characters who are on the spectrum. I love how relatable she makes them and their issues. Their social abilities other issues are never the main force they just happen to be a side point in the book yet they make for an incredibly compelling read. I highly recommend this book!
#act your age, Chloe brown #netgalley

This was such a great way to round out the Brown sisters. I loved Eve and Jacob so much. The B&B was a fun setting and the Montrose siblings were great side characters! I just fully love the Brown sisters. And Gigi!

After reading and loving Talia Hibbert’s book, Get a Life Chloe Brown, I was so excited to get a chance to read the next installment in her Brown sisters collection!
Act Your Age, Eve Brown was such an enjoyable read! I connected with the character of Eve & became invested in her right from the start. I truly cared about her and where her story would go! She struggles with a lot of aspects of her life & always seems to make mistakes. She knows she needs to switch something up to start seeing some real changes in her life.
Eve meets Jacob, the owner of a bed & breakfast, who has really high standards for himself & most others in his circle. Eve interviews for a job at Jacob’s b&b, and after she ends up accidentally hitting & injuring him with her car! This bad event actually kickstarts a new level of their business & personal relationship, as Eve sticks around to help right her wrong & help Jacob out.
I just really enjoyed the character development & story! It was well written, kept me interested & invested in the outcome, and gave me the warm fuzzies. Great read!

This was touching, sweet, funny, entertaining, witty and all around delightful. I enjoyed getting to know these characters through the author’s use of dual narrators. It made so clear how people just don’t perceive how others think and the insecurities tormenting them. You’ll be so glad that Eve and Jacob found each other and had the opportunity to see beneath the other’s walls to the real people beneath.

I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book that I received from Netgalley; however, the opinions are my own and I did not receive any compensation for my review.

I got this on netgalley last night and binged it in less than 24 hours. The Brown sisters are back and in this installation we meet Eve. She is a struggling 26 year old who seems to fail or struggle with every career or relationship she gets into.

Her parents practice some tough love sending her out into the real world and refusing her monthly financial support until she can hold down the same job for one full year.

In a random “meet cute” situation, Eve interviews for a job with Jacob and just a few minutes later accidentally runs into him with her car. This has all my fav rom com elements:
Enemies to Lovers
Lots of witty banter and flirting
Some serious steam
Some family drama
Characters with some baggage that experience growth
A whole lot of heart

Loved it. Fans of Talia Hibbert, Jasmine Guillory and Lyssa Kay Adam’s (Bromance book club) will enjoy this one!

4.5 stars!

Eve Brown has a somewhat carefree approach to life. Jacob Wayne decidedly does not. Circumstances throw these two together in a situation they can’t quite avoid when Eve hits Jacob with her car and ends up assisting him at his B&B while he recovers. While their personalities clash, neither particularly minds the arrangement. As time goes on, these two learn that their first impressions may not have been correct as they discover more about each other and themselves. In fact, they may have more in common than they think.

Eve’s sunshine-y personality and Jacob’s icy exterior are a heart-melting combination. So many sassy quips and witty banter moments; so much compliments both given earnestly and begrudgingly handed out; so much acceptance so freely given. This book made me want to squeal out loud multiple times. The amount of times I smiled while reading is incredibly large, and I spent most of my time wanting to hug the characters for being just so incredibly adorable. The writing puts readers right there with the characters and all their emotions, and I love the feeling of knowing exactly how a character feels before even they themselves figure it out. Talia Hibbert is fantastic at the build up between characters and even better at the moments when everything finally comes out.

I loved and adored the other books in this Brown sisters trilogy, but Act Your Age, Eve Brown is truly the whipped cream and cherry on top.

Equal parts charming and steamy, while I refuse to acknowledge a favorite book in this series, Eve and Jacob may or may not be my favorite couple.

Love the neurodiversity, love the tension, love the quirk, just love the whole dang thing.

Thank you so much to Avon and Harper Voyager for providing me with an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!

I was looking forward to this third installment of the Brown Sisters series so much, the first two books were just fantastic; so dear, funny, and steamy! Talia Hibbert came through again with Act Your Age, Eve Brown.

Eve is the baby of the three sisters featured in this series and is treated as such. She seems to flit from one job to another never sticking with one thing until her parents bring down the hammer on her telling her that she will no longer receive payments from her trust fund until she can hold down a job for a year. While trying to pick up her hurt feelings and running away she drives literally into a B&B owner (Jacob) and runs him over but gains a chef position in the process.

Jacob is a stern and serious sort of man and runs a bed and breakfast that is in desperate need of a chef. Begrudgingly he gives Eve the job, she doesn't let his seemingly cold and aloof manner deter her from her determination of completing a year with a steady job to prove to her parents that she's not a failure and can be an adult all on her own, Through numerous hilarious shenanigans the attraction and love grow between Jacob and Eve and we come to learn that Jacob is on the autism spectrum and Eve discovers she shows signs of this as well.

The side characters were enjoyable as well, I would love to see Mont and his sisters get a story or even a novella. They were so fun and Mont's attitude and the way he handled Jacob with loving sarcasm had me rolling with laughter.

Act Your Age, Eve Brown was a fantastic conclusion to the series and it seemed that each story just got funnier and steamier and more enjoyable, I really couldn't put them down. Talia's approach to disabilities in the romance genre was refreshing and eye opening, I thought she did a fantastic job in each book. I love her style so much, I'll read anything she puts out in the future!

i absolutely LOVED this book and am so sad this is the end of the brown sisters stories! eve was a delight and i loved her relationship with jacob, who i really adored. i love the way the grumpy/sunshine trope was done in this book. the characters were so well developed and their relationship was so freaking cute. i think i would have loved to see more of eve's growth tho!!

#HeyGirl. Looking for some hot romance this #ValentinesDay? Then definitely check out @TaliaHibbert’s #BrownSisters series. I just finished an #ARC of the third book in the series #ActYourAgeEveBrown and it was soooo good! Hilarious and sexy, those sisters never disappoint. This one releases on March 9, so if you haven’t read the first two books, I highly recommend them, although you don’t need to read them before this one since each book focuses on a different sister.

Eve Brown is the youngest Brown sister. Still living at home and unable to commit to a career, she has her parents at a loss as to what to do with her. So, they put a hold on her trust fund until she finds a job and sticks with it for at least one year. She drives off in a huff and gets entangled in a crazy situation where she finds herself hired on as a cook at a B&B with a hot boss who’s riddled with OCD tendencies that rival Eve’s oldest sister Chloe. Hilarity and steamy (sometimes raunchy) chaos ensues.

Thank you @netgalley, @Avonbooks, and @HarperVoyagerUS for the opportunity to review this advanced copy. I don’t think I could’ve waited until March 9! It was fantastic!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert / Pages: 395 / Genre: Romance / Release Date: Mar. 9, 2021

This was an incredibly heartfelt story about a woman thrust from her comfort zone, who coincidentally ended up in someone else's. Eve is told to grow up by her folks and goes about doing just that, and discovers much about herself on the way. I love that she came more into understanding herself instead of suddenly realizing facets that were already there. She knew much about herself, and grew to appreciate and understand it further.

Her love interest, Jacob, also has baggage, and it isn't portrayed as something easy to tuck away, but rather something he is working on. He cares for the needs of others, as he knows the world can often overlook said needs, and although he starts out judgemental and cross, that exterior is cracked as he understands how it has been harmful, even when it feels protective.

I love this series, and this third novel is lovely.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for the opportunity to read and review this book.
This Book! THIS BOOK!! haha sorry about the caps but I truly enjoyed my time with this story. I loved taking my time learning about both characters and how they can fit into each other. There is own voices Autism Spectrum Disorders representation but its played into the story unexpectedly and I loved it very much. There was so much that I was able to highlight because the words that were presented from both perspectives were items I was able to relate to and many people can when it comes to finding yourself and trying to become independent along with trying to navigate boundaries and falling in love. The only aspect that I wished was explored more were both of main characters' pasts. I think it would have made this book a lot more profound and I would have loved it even more. Because of these points, I have to give this a 4.5 out of 5 stars.

I really love how Talia Hibbert incorporates so many types of people in her novels. She is one of the most inclusive authors, I believe I've ever read.

Act Your Age, Eve Brown, is very similar in plot structures to the previous two books in the series, but I love how each sister is truly unique. Yes, they have similarities, but they are all their own people. I think this adds to the authenticity of the characters. Anyone who likes fun, flirty romance novels will enjoy this.

My library patrons tend to prefer less steamy romance novels, but I will be recommending this book and series to anyone who isn't quite as prudish. :)

I really loved how Eve confused her words, and how Jacob always helped her rather than rudely corrected her. I think the only thing that would make this book better is less predictability in plot. It's the same structure as the other two books, which I enjoyed, but I'd also like something that goes a bit differently.

This whole series is such a delight, and so KIND. Eve is underestimated by everyone around her, and underestimates herself as well. She stumbles into a job at a B & B, and begins to prove herself to the owner while falling for him. The hot, grumpily charming owner is autistic and from my (neurotypical, so take it with a grain of salt!] perspective this was handled very well. The sisters and boyfriends we got to know in earlier books.make cameo appearances, as do the parents and the inimitable grandmother and her girlfriend.

I love Talia Hibbert's series on the Brown sisters and I'm really excited to see where she takes us next. The previous two in the series gave us unrepresented viewpoints for us to see ourselves in and this title is no different. The romance was pitch perfect and very sweet.

This is hands down the best book of the series and the best Talia Hibbert book that I’ve read so far!!

Wow, everything about this book was just so perfect. Eve and Jacob are both such lovable characters, and so many moments between the two of them made me want to squeal with delight. Their banter was so fun and the steamy scenes were *chef’s kiss*. I loved the autism rep as well, though I would suggest checking out own voices reviews if you want that perspective.

I can’t wait to see what Hibbert comes out with next! Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Talia Hibbert saved the best for last in her Brown sisters series because Act Your Age, Eve Brown is ALL. THE. FEELS. While the first two books in this series were really good, I don't remember the last time I wanted to alternate between laughing and getting teary-eyed through a whole entire romance novel. Hibbert clearly has a pulse on creating characters that don't fit the norm of beautiful, flawless beautiful and then imbuing them with such heart that you believe in every word she writes. In this story it happens to be youngest sister Eve Brown, who feels like she never lives up to anyone's expectations, and Jacob Wayne, whose world-traveling parents dumped him on his aunt's doorstep and left him to figure out his autism on his own. And while the pair initially bicker, they (and the reader) can quickly see that Jacob's rigid rules and uptight mannerisms are perfectly balanced out by Eve's spontaneity and go-with-the flow approach. You will root for this pair all the way, enjoy some super funny, super sweet and super steamy moments - and wish for a Jacob (or Eve) of your very own. I absolutely LOVED it!

I LOVE Talia Hibbert's Brown sisters series! Get A Life, Chloe Brown and Take A Hint, Dani Brown are among my very, VERY favorite books and the third installment Act Your Age, Eve Brown is no different. As each book in the series came out I couldn't imagine I would like it as much as the previous, but I was always proven wrong! Eve and Jacob's story was such a delight. What's not to love about a hilarious, sweet yet steamy, forced proximity/workplace romance set in an adorable countryside B&B?! Something about this series just resonates so well with me. I adore the world and characters Hibbert has created and the way she has tackled such issues as chronic pain, anxiety, trauma, and autism throughout the series in not only a realistic way, but with such grace and nuance. I recommend Hibbert's books as often as I can and can't wait to see what she writes next!