Act Your Age, Eve Brown: A Novel (The Brown Sisters, 3)

Wow! Wow! Wow! I know I’m late to the party with this book, but better late than never because this book was brilliantly fantastic!!! Talia has the ability to write sensual, sexy, funny, beautiful, hot, achingly tender emotions all in one book, and succeed at all of them! When I read the back cover, I didn’t actually believe Eve hits Jacob with her car, but alas she does! And, boy is he grumpy, although to be fair, he’s just grumpy in general. Eve is this kind of flighty, doesn’t know what she wants to do with herself woman whose family is fed up with her flighty-ness. BUT, but that is merely on the surface for both of these gorgeous characters, and what is underneath, for both of them, is the belief that they simply aren’t good enough. Good enough for meaningful friendships, good enough for their parents to want them as is, good enough for romantic love... Talia manages to convey these wounds in big ways and the most subtle, yet stinging moments. I go back and forth with who I love more, Eve or Jacob, I mean the wounds he has from his past, UGH!!!! What unfolds as these two work together and get to know each other is like a brilliant star-filled sky romance, a huge bursting of love for each other romance. AND, more importantly for themselves!!! To see each of them slowly come to love themselves for who they are is magical, and I wish we could all see ourselves this way, that we are fabulous just the way we are. Brilliant, stunning, quirky, lovely, sensual, perfectly…

– 3.75 stars The Brown Sisters series has been such a bright light in an overall bad (reading) year and I'm so happy that I've discovered it. While Take a Hint, Dani Brown is still my favorite, Act Your Age, Eve Brown is a very cute conclusion to this series. If you loved the other books in this series, this book won't disappoint you. ✩‧₊*:・ THE CHRACTERS & ROMANCE ･:*₊‧✩ Can we talk about the fact that Eve HIT Jacob with a CAR and he didn't file a lawsuit against her???? i- if that is not love what is? I want what Jacob and Eve have ✨ Eve reminded me in a lot of things of one my favorite heroines, Gianna from The Maddest Obsession. The way she's a hot mess, sitting alone on a bench feeding ducks, calling the love of their life anal-retentive, getting words wrong and people needing to correct her, a bright sunshine???… the similarities, yup I love both of them. 😭 After so many failed attempts of finding what she's good at, it was great to see Eve's self discovery and finding something she truly loves. I loooove how Jacob always had her back and believed in her when she didn't dare to believe in her own abilities. Jacob is the complete opposite of Eve. Always in control of everything, cold, distant and NOT a people pleaser. He disliked Eve from the moment he stared at her, because he knew that woman had the ability to make his life a mess and boy did she do a good job. It was so sweet to see Jacob slowly opening up to Eve since he has not many people he can call his…