#ACT YOUR AGE EVE BROWN

[sunsis]

still waiting for the brown sisters trilogy by talia hibbert to get a movie or (preferably) series adaptation. so many books being adapted into film and none are by popular Black authors, especially the romance books that are the easiest to adapt without the pressure of turning them into a big franchise. there is a severe lack of adult romcoms for Black women but a huge market for it, it's so frustrating

[magickgirl786]

Dream Cast for Talia Hibbert's Books (Part One: The Couples)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Susan Wokoma as Chloe Brown Andrew Garfield as Redford "Red" Morgan

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

Wunmi Mosaku as Danika "Dani" Brown Dev Patel As Zafir "Zaf" Ansari

Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Letitia Hector as Eve Brown Freddie Stroma as Jacob Wayne

[lovelywetdreamer]

I did said I wouldn't write month for the rest of November, but I never said I wouldn't read smut for the rest of November. I couldn't helps but think of Nanami in these scenes. Talia Hibbert is one of my favorite author. Act Your Age, Eve Brown is one of my favorite romance novels.

Nanami would be like Jacob. Jacob would be my boyfriend in real life if he was real. Please excuse the hearts in my book. If I love a page in a book, I put a heart on the page. Kimmy made this wonderful art

[the-forest-library]

[poetlcs]

books I’ve read in 2024 - no. 3

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

[beauspot]

why can’t black women have a romance holy shit. every person who hates sydcarmy is talking about some “why can’t men and women ever just be friends” like that’s not all we’ve been allocated for decades. i understand that a lot of women particularly 👋🏻 women want stories that don’t revolve around romance, and hey i like those stories too! BUT black women have not had the same oppurtunities to just be love interests in the same way y’all have. We’ve been relocated to undesirable best friend roles or oversexualized booty calls. Y’all swear we have so much representation and yet can only name like 10 shows spanning over DECADES to prove us wrong like if there’s so much romantic content with black women as leads why the fuck are you talking about the flash and the walking dead?

and then we have the marcus and sydney brigade. the ONLY reason y’all want marcus and sydney together is cause they both black, they have zero chemistry. prove to me otherwise, quickly. I understand that people are tired of seeing interracial relationships (which is not really a problem but that’s a post for another day 😒 y’all swear that “the media” is trying to trick black women into marrying out or something stupid like that when we all know black women marry in their race more than any other demographic. imma just say black women should go where they are loved and fuck the noise) but y’all do this with nearly every show. Pairing characters together cause they’re the same race even though they have nothing in common. Nonblack people love doing this which i know why but again not the post.

But what REALLY pisses me off is calling Chefs Kiss a mentor/mentee relationship and then proceeding to ship sydney and MARCUS???

like you can’t be serious. carmy so clearly sees syd as his equal proven by the fact he wants to revamp his BUSINESS, his LIVELIHOOD with her. someone he’s known the least amount of time.

We’ve discussed this before but we know why Jeremy is probably wary about romance because of how hypersexual his previous job was and i get that, but I have yet to see a sydcarmy fan who wants them rawdogging on the kitchen floor. Idk it’s strange the way this show is edited and the music choices, and the script is written if they intended to go no romance for them. I’m really interested to see what their dynamic is like next season if they’re going to change it moving forward to dissuade fans from shipping by separating the two(like stucky vibes) it won’t work but that’ll be very annoying.

The WORST thing the show runners could do is insert a new love interest, that would piss me off to no end and i would stop watching the show. In the latest article they said(writer or show runner don’t remember) they wanted a show with no romance plot so they better fucking stick to it. I don’t want carmy to get to a later season and they’ve introduced a palm colored love interest for him. i swear to god i will turn the show off.

Now I personally will continue to ship them i’ve done so with other ships with far less, but that doesn’t mean i’m not a little annoyed. I hope they stick to their word if that’s the case.

ALSO we need more black women as romantic leads so go read the brown sister novels (chloe brown, dani brown, and eve brown) and hype them up so we can get movies( or in a perfect world a TV SERIES 🤭) based on them

TLDR: it’s dumb to hate sydcarmy cause you personally hate interracial relationships, if they mean no romance they should do no romance, that article was dumb and didn’t need to come out when we’ve already heard from both lead actors they don’t like the ship. we got it the first time. also read the brown sisters and spread the word so we can get a tv show about them thanks.

[aliciadreaming]

Rereading

And I think delainey hayles would make a fantastic Eve

But then the only blonde guy I could think of is for Jacob is

And that's when I knew I was officially too far down the iwtv rabbit hole

[headcanonsandmore]

Not me currently binge-reading my way through the Brown Sisters Trilogy whilst trying to get over a bad head-cold.

[plotsnthots]

Every time there’s a plus-sized FMC in a romance novel, I give a good tip of my hypothetical hat to the author because damn, it’s sexy as hell.

[justbeenthinking]

Redford Morgan > Jacob Wayne

Chloe Sophia > Eve Antonia

Button > Sunshine

My two January books. The first and third book of the Brown sisters series by Talia Hibbert. I skipped the 2nd book but will come back to it in the future.

The above is my preference in terms of main character likability and relatability, maybe bc Chloe and Red were closer to my age and their issues were easier for me to understand.

Not gonna rate them bc I frankly don't know how to.

[the-0ther-mother]

♡ Mid-year Book Freakout Tag ♡

No-one listens to my rants about the books i read in real life so I'll gladly subject to all of you on here to it >:)

i. the best book you've read so far: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. (Read it once and re-read it again)

ii. the best sequel you've read so far: Act your age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

iii. book that made you cry: The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. (But I'm an easy crier so there were many more)

iv. book that made you happy: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (re-read cuz i found the full cast audiobook)

v. biggest disappointment: BI: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw. (It wasn't bad, i just expected it to be much more insightful and informative)

vi. biggest surprise: The Route Of Ice And Salt by José Luis Zárate. (Everyone should get their hands on this queer retelling of dracula from a mexican author)

vii. newest fictional crush: Jacob Wayne from Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert. (Would burn down cities for him)

viii. favourite new author: Robin Hobb

ix. most anticipated new release of the second half of the year: Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White. (Already read an ARC and can't wait to re-read it the second it comes out)

x. books you need to read before the end of the year: The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk. Royal Assassin and Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

Literally anyone who wants to join in can go ahead <3

[elizmanderson]

2022 wrap-up, part 2

click here for part 1 | click here for part 3

aaaaaaand we're back for more of a look at this year. today's topic is reading, which is considerably less sparkling than writing for the reasons below.

top reads in 2022

woof I did so little reading in 2022. I really thought I'd do more once grad school was done, but by then I was doing amm and working on book things for my debut, so it just kinda. didn't happen. I read 14 new books, and 4 of them didn't happen until I was at my parents' house for the holidays.

so maybe it doesn't mean a ton since I read so little, but here are my top reads this year, in no particular order:

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

as you know if you followed me when I actually read this book: obsessed. I wrote so many posts like OH MY GOD THIS BOOK until ofmd distracted me. I read this book twice in one month, in one sitting each time, and posted nonstop bullshit on twitter about it, too. super short, excellent forest vibes, folkloric, gay, what's not to love

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

cozy fantasy, sapphic, not too long, exactly what I need from my fiction, and broke a reading slump that lasted most of my year thank god (no literally I read Silver in the Wood twice in march and then kinda cycled between books without finishing any of them until I read this in probably october)

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Mandanna

new comfort read, ahoy! again a cozy fantasy, chock full of found family, so goddamn SOFT and again exactly what I need from my fiction, made me cry but mostly in a good way

The Mutantsitters Club by SJ Whitby

finally, a standalone in the Cute Mutants universe!! all the things you know & love about SJ's works, but softer, sweeter, and bite-sized, which is exactly what I need in my old age and also bc I'm a coward who hasn't even finished the original series yet bc I'm so scared of the many ways SJ might break my heart

the Brown Sisters trilogy by Talia Hibbert (reread)

obviously fantastic bc I reread at least one of them every year and this year went for all three. heartwarming & heartbreaking and digs into various mental health issues as well as neurodivergence (implicitly with Dani Brown, explicitly with Eve Brown) and chronic illness (Chloe Brown)

upcoming books I'm looking forward to

The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim

YA contemporary, debut author

Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

YA mystery, debut author

Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell

cottagecore fantasy romance

The Ashfire King by Chelsea Abdullah

epic fantasy, sequel to The Stardust Thief

[abookishsunflower]

The Brown Sisters Series! This was such a fun time! I absolutely loved this family! I love Talia Hibbert writing! She writes such good spicy scenes! And has such great representation!

My rating

Eve Brown - 4/5 stars

Dani Brown- 3/5 stars

Chloe Brown- 3/5 stars

Eve was my favorite, her story was the one I resonated with the most, failure, and trying to find your way! Eve and Jacob were so cute loved their dislike to friendship to love 😍 it was so addicting!

Dani was a close second, watching Dani try and deal with the emotional block with commitment and relationship and Zafir with his kindness and patience was wonderful!

Chloe maybe be my least favorite, but her and Reds story was still so fun to read, Red helping her find her place again with her chronic illness, and helping her accept herself was just beautiful and their relationship was just one you should strive for 😍😍

Check out the Brown Sisters Series you won’t be disappointed 😍🥰🥵

[the-forest-library]

The Last Thorn is New York Times bestseller Talia Hibbert’s debut fantasy novel. Hibbert is best known for her romance writing, including Get a Life, Chloe Brown. But The Last Thorn is pitched as a spicy magical Beauty and the Beast retelling. It’s set in Albion, an alternative modern-day Britain, which is recovering from a turbulent civil war. And it’s home to a secret society of magic-users. We follow a hero after the war is won, and hope a flawed heroine can save them both from their darkness within. Featuring a diverse cast of characters, a cursed hero must form a soul bond with his enemy's exiled daughter – or lose himself entirely to the monster he hides inside.

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today’s disabled character of the day is Eve Brown from Act Your Age, Eve Brown, who has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Cover of the book Act Your Age, Eve Brown. It depicts a couple dancing with music lines and symbols trailing behind them in dark blue. The man on the right has blond, he is wearing dark blue pants, black shoes, glasses, and a button up light blue shirt. The woman on the left has long purple hair, she is wearing jeans, white shoes, and a grenn t-shirt. The background is a light blue.]

[deiumjeito]

aesthetic | Act Your Age, Eve Brown - Talia Hibbert