#the brown sisters

[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

[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.

[sofwritesreviews]

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Rating: 5 stars

Pages: 384

Tagged: couldnt-put-down, romance

Holy shit, one of the best romance books I've ever read. I don't think I've ever identified so much with the main character of a book. I loved the exploration of how chronic pain affects your life & relationships, without it being too much (or the conclusion being that you can't have relationships, romantic or otherwise!). This was saccharine-sweet, and also pretty seriously smutty, so warning for that!

Goodreads review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5975076567

[tovetar]

”Something jagged and broken inside him smoothed out, slotting back into place so firmly that he felt like he should’ve heard the click.”

- Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

[deiumjeito]

aesthetic | Act Your Age, Eve Brown - Talia Hibbert

[wahlpaper]

Eve Brown mixes up her words in conversation and just wants to be around people that will roll with it know what she means. Me too girl! Thank you Hibbert for writing this in! Thank you for committing to writing her as autistic! I felt so seen! <3

[lemaldusiecle]

The Brown Sisters, photographed in 1974 and 2021.

[dustjacketmusings]

If Chloe is rococo, what is dani?

Art deco? Impressionist?

[libraryleopard]

Adult contemporary romance

Third installment in the Brown Sisters series

Eve Brown has a reputation as the chaotic and flighty youngest sister, but after one too many disasters, her wealthy parents put down an ultimatum that she hold down a responsible job or be cut off from financial support

When Eve botches an interview for a chef position at a B&B in the countryside but when Jacob, the owner, is unexpectedly injured, she’s forced to step in and finds herself growing closer with Jacob despite their clashing first impressions

Opposites attract romance

Explores two different experiences of being autistic

Black British, fat, autistic lead; autistic lead

Charming & heartfelt

[pinkiemachine]

Everyone say: FAMILY VACATION!!!

[feketeribizli]

spider society meeting more like gay brunch

[beauspot]

i try not to read into everything but also my brain is my brain and i will read into everything…do y’all not find it weird that the majority of peoples favorite brown sister is dani and she’s also the only one who isn’t canonically disabled 🫤…

to be CLEAR since i know people like to read words that aren’t there, you can have dani as your favorite, she’s an amazing character with many likeable traits i just think it’s interesting

[sofwritesreviews]

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Rating: 5 stars Pages: 400 Tagged: couldnt-put-down, romance

I was looking forward to reading this ever since Eve first showed up in Chloe Brown, and it was not a let down! It was just so adorable, I loved the setting (a B&B with an upcoming gingerbread festival?! c'mon that's perfect), and Eve's journey of realising she has autism was realistically and beautifully written. An all around great romance!

Goodreads Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3413670438

[glow-in-the-dark-death]

Family Wrath

( Implied SA, not actually SA, POV outsider misunderstandings )

Okay I want all the misunderstandings!

Misunderstandings galore my beloved!

Anyway!

For this intrusive thought that decided to hit me as I was minding my own business-

Danny is the baby that Stephanie gave into adoption when she was young.

Obvi trans Danny,

So after Stephanie realizes just who Danny is she investigates (You can't escape the Bat paranoia training)

But here are the misunderstandings: Ellie and Dante (de-aged)

" Oh my God guys I'm a grandmother! "

But wait there's more!

Danny is how old?! With kids, that are very much not newborns?

" So who's the other parent? "

" Oh some fruit-loop named Vlad, he was obsessed with my mom when they went to college together but she wasn't interested at all & now he's obsessed with me. He really wanted the 'perfect' son but I told him to fuck off not that he cared about what I wanted. So yeah, sorry for rambling-are you okay you look a little pale, is the heat bothering you? "

Danny forgets that peoples first thoughts aren't " Oh yea clone! " Or timeline shenanigans

So what these concerned people heard was " Yea this adult man wanted my mom and when he saw that that wasn't an option he targeted me as a child "

Dante & Ellie are just enjoying the show intentionally creating more misunderstandings and havoc, they hope someone will finally go beat Vlad since they're now too small to beat him.

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Dante: " Pappa practically died when I was born. "

Ellie: "Yea I almost killed him too! "

They're technically not lying just using what actually happened in a different context

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Alfred after hearing what's going on grabbing his shotgun: " I still have good aim."

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Jason/Stephanie: " A little murder is fine, as a treat "

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Just more and more misunderstandings happening around Danny with him being none the wiser.

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Feel free to add to my nonsense, I love it, it's fun to read what people come up with

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Just an (Intrusive) Idea

[overflowingshelf]

Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Well, I liked Get a Life, Chloe Brown up until the third-act :( Check out my full review to see why:

Get a Life, Chloe Brown Talia Hibbert Publisher: Avon Publication Date: November 5, 2019 Series or Standalone: The Brown Sisters #1 Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Goodreads – StoryGraph Rating: MY REVIEW CW: Abusive relationship; emotional abuse; chronic pain/illness; physical abuse “Once upon a time, Chloe Brown died.”  Get A Life, Chloe Brown has been on my to-be-read list for way…

[pangur-and-grim]

it was so nice to see Tallgeese last weekend! everyone is looking shaggy with their fall moult, but they could not be in a more idyllic setting