Absolutely loved the Brown Sisters series that Talia Hibbert wrote. Each of the sisters have unique stories but all interwine together nicely. Enjoyed the focus and character representation of autism in Jacob.

This is a great addition to Hibbert's series. I really enjoyed it and I love the diversity of the characters.

Talia hilbert can do no wrong in my eyes. The brown sister have become family. I adore them. I maybe need to reread the series as I need to find my favourite. Eve is Hilarious. That pond scene had me howling

This is probably my favorite romance with a main character on the autism spectrum. I loved it!

Boss-employee romances aren't my fave, but Talia Hibbert handled this dynamic well. Anxious, opinionated, and talented Eve Brown is less sure of herself than the heroines of the other Brown sisters books, but that makes watching her find a place to call home, even sweeter. A super sexy and fun book.

I think Eve is my favorite Brown sister. This book was so adorable and sweet and funny and I couldn't get enough of it. I was either laughing or crying my way through it. Equal parts hilarious and heart-warming. Ugh. Please, just... read this one.

Okay for real the fact that their Meet Cute is basically her hitting him with her car, giving him a concussion, and breaking his arm is kind of hilarious. How do you explain that to people when they ask how you met?

This whole book is really fun. I’m not as used to British romance and tonally it’s a little different from romance novels I’m used to, but it was really fun. It’s super funny and doesn’t ever go too hard into secondhand embarassment with its humour. I really appreciated that the book never said Eve needed to be humilated to learn a lesson, or to fail in some epic way – it,in fact, specfically says that Eve is talented and capable and needs to believe in herself. It’s quite lovely.

I also really liked that these are two adults who are autistic and also enjoy sex. Obviously austistic people can be asexual or just not enjoy sex, but a lot of people/books really infantilize austistic adults and it’s cool to see a book that doesn’t do that. And, on that note, I liked that the book specifically pointed out both that autism looks different on everyone and that in woman and girls especially, it may present in a way many people don’t read as autism. It’s just really neat all around.

While the sex scenes are explicit, there aren’t so many that I don’t think you couldn’t skip them without losing out on a lot of the book so if sex scenes aren’t your thing, you’d probably still be fine. If sex scenes are your thing, you’ll probably have a good time lol. I also appreciated how very pro-consent talk they were. Goes to prove that it certainly doesn’t “ruin the mood” and shows that healthy commuication can still be fun.

And the book is so fat positive. It’s absolutely lovely. Fat positive, diverse, and just all around really good. It functions fine as a standalone, but also is a really good series book – you can see enough of the threads and characters from previous books to see how satisfying that would be.

Also, I’m sorry, but Jacob’s vendetta against ducks is hilarious. Though I do agree on his feelings about geese. Geese are a menace. Though I’m Canadian, so I’m biased.

All in all, I really liked this book. It’s a fun, modern romance and I would very much recommend it.

Representation: Jacob is autistic. Eve is Black, fat, and over the course of the book and getting closer to Jacob, realizes she’s autistic as well. Also her grandmother is pansexual which like she’s not a main character but I love it.

Content notes: There is actually a content warning page in this book, which is great. So, as the book says, warnings for childhood neglect and anti-autistic ableism. I’d also warn for, you know, Eve hitting Jacob with her car. Obviously it’s an accident but it could be upsetting for some people.

An adorable and sexy romance that has two engaging and winning main characters. It is charming and fun!

What a way to wrap up the Brown Sisters series! In ACT YOUR AGE, EVE BROWN, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard... literally. She hits him with her car. What with his injury, Jacob accepts a little extra help from Eve around the B&B. What follows is a warm-hearted falling in love story between two souls quite perfect for each other. Basically, if you've ever wanted a hug from a book... this is it.

Talia Hibbert was a guest on the Fresh Fiction podcast! You can listen to the podcast on the podcast app of your choice, and you can find show notes on PodBean: https://freshfiction.podbean.com/e/we-are-family-author-guest-talia-hibbert/

I really enjoyed this book but it seems like i didnt enjoy it as much as others who have already reviewed. I cant wait for this to come out though and more people to read it!

A thoroughly delightful "the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one" romance in which BOTH the grumpy one and the sunshine one are autistic. If you enjoy bed-and-breakfast settings, I thought the details of the business were also really fun! It's a Talia Hibbert book, so you know what you're getting: a deeply satisfying romance in which the heroine is loved and appreciated for who she is.

Another great book by Talia Hibbert. I enjoyed reading about the last of the Brown sisters. I am excited to see what she writes next.

While this was not my favorite title of the Brown Sisters trilogy, it is so very hard not to fall in love with Eve and continue to be charmed by Talia Hibbert's heartfelt writing style.

Oh goodness I want to call Eve every sweet, goofy thing the Brown Sisters' Gigi does 💕

If the three novels, #ActYourAgeEveBrown is the least rooted in a reality I recognize. On the surface, it has a smidge of "well, everything just *works out* for the leading lady without effort" that I really dislike about some romance novels.

Except it takes things I don't like about the genre and turns them on their heads. Eve tries so hard, all the time, at everything. Even though she does occasionally make things happen by the sheer force of her personality and charm, I'm not mad at it because I genuinely love her. The miscommunication that blows things up with less than 100 pages left results in both parties apologizing and wanting to do better. Even while everything around her feels like a romcom film, Eve feels like the best friend I haven't seen in a while (who I would probably follow her family across the country to check on)

I love that she and Jacob have different experiences of autism - diagnosed as a child vs. never officially diagnosed, different presentations due to lived experience/gender, masking/not masking, lack of familial support compared to The Most - and that we, the readers, get to hear a discussion of stimming and see Eve's research into autism in women.

This whole series is a gem. It's a warm hug. It's family in all its "I love them but don't always fully get everything about them" glory. It's "if you haven't read it, do you want my copies?" good.

I loved the grumpy/sunshine dynamic of Eve and Jacob, but their love story felt rather forced to me. The setting was great. I loved Eve's journey of self discovery. Jacob's hesitance felt real. Alex and Tess were my favorite side characters- I want more of them!

Can I give this 6 stars? Or 7?? Talia Hibbert has done it again. She created lovable and enthralling main characters that I couldn't help but root for since the first page, or if you've read the other two books in the series you've been rooting for Eve since 'Get a Life, Chloe Brown'. The intimate scenes between the main characters were hotter than hot but the emotional development of these characters was gripping and delightful. I can't wait to see what Hibbert comes out with next.

This third installment of the fantastic The Brown Sisters series did not disappoint.

This time, we get to know Eve, the youngest of the sisters. She's been cut-off financially by her parents and has to prove that she can be responsible, get a job and make it on her own. Circumstances lead her to start work at a B&B owned and run by a gorgeous but uptight man named Jacob.

Beacuse she has nowhere to go and its a B&B, she also also lives there, meaning happy, chaotic Eve now lives and works very closely to grumpy, ordered Jacob, so we get the following tropes: forced proximity and opposites attract.

I adored the banter and the in-depth character development of both characters.

It was satisfying to wrap up the larger story of the Brown sisters, with each of them finding their happily ever after at the end.

Possibly my favorite book of the series, and helpful for those discovering their own neurodiversity. I enjoyed getting to know the Brown sister who seemed the flightiest during the earlier books and discovering hidden layers and familiar conundrums. Plus seeing two seemingly opposite people discover their similarities along with their attraction, and getting to see Eve discover her passion when she has so many different gifts and talents was a treat.

The first book that I read by Hibbert I really actually hated. But sometimes I have to reread a book and I'll often give them a second chance, because everyone is talking about how good they are. So I read her second one in this "world" and then now I picked up the third. Mostly I feel meh about it. I'm not a romance person at all. IRL, sure. But for books it just always seems so over the top unrealistic. And unfortunately, this one was no exception. I get that books are supposed to take you to a world you might not normally spend time in, but no, this one wasn't for me. I would keep reading books by the author, because while I don't necessarily like everything in the book, I have LOVED how she writes her characters and the interactions between them. That I'm willing to hang around for.

3/5 stars

What a fun book! Eve and Jacob’s story is one of redemption, but also a show of enduring strength while dealing with neurodiversity. They meet after Eve’s parents cut off her trust and require her to get a job, hopefully a lasting one. She’s dabbled in many things but can never find the right fit. She goes off on a drive to clear her head and ends up at a small bed and breakfast advertising for a chef. She crashes the interviews and meets Jacob, who really needs a chef before the Gingerbread festival. Things go badly, but then he runs after her to offer her the job and she kind of, sort of…runs him over! Now he’s hurt ANd desperately needs a chef, so she stays on for a trial.

Eve and Jacob have their own ways of coping with the world and it’s intricacies, and her light-as-you-go attitude definitely clashes with his firm structured life. But somehow…well you’ll have to read the book to find out.

This is the third in a trio of books about three sisters: Chloe, Dani, and Eve. Warning that this and the other two books include very open door scenes and lots of sweating, so if that bothers you, this probably isn’t for you.

I like the author’s unique voice and plan to read the other two books.

Rating: 4 stars (but only because you kind of know how things are going to go from the beginning, but isn’t every romance kind of that way? I still love them)