Book Review | Take a Hint, Dani Brown [CC]

hello and welcome back to bookmark
chronicles today i am reviewing take a
hint danny brown by talia hibbert
as most of you know i really enjoy get a
life chloe brown
and in this book we follow chloe’s
sister danny who is a phd student and
college professor
one day danny gets trapped in the
elevator of the building that she
teaches in during a
fire drill and the building security
guard who is also a former rugby player
zafir ansari manages to pry the elevator
doors open and carries danny out of the
building
a video of this rescue ends up going
viral and gets the hashtag dr rugby
trending
and while it makes staff uncomfortable
to be in such a public light it’s also
gotten a lot of publicity for his
non-profit organization called tackle it
because this publicity is exactly what
zaf’s organization needs he proposes to
danny that they pretend to be a couple
for a little while so that he can
capitalize on all the attention that
he’s getting
and then after a month they’ll break it
off danny not only agrees to this but
proposes another deal
that they

also become friends with
benefits i really enjoy talia hibbert’s
writing i think her books are hilarious
and this one made me laugh out loud just
like the last one
i know that i have an unpopular opinion
here surprise but
i actually ended up liking chloe’s book
better than this one because there were
some tropes that were used that i’m not
a fan of
and some of the decisions that were made
just
did not make sense so i ended up giving
this one 4 out of 5 stars
on the other hand some things that i
really enjoyed are the discussion of
dealing with the loss of a family member
as well as anxiety disorder and no
neither of those are spoilers because
there is a content warning at the
beginning of the book just like there
was in get a life chloe brown
so while important discussions are
something that i tend to look for in
romance novels the tropes that were used
in this book really ended up knocking my
reading down
otherwise this could have been another
five star read so if you have not yet
read
get a life chloe brown or take a hand
danny brown this is your official
spoiler warning i say that for both of
them because i will probably end up
making comparisons between the two and
if you’ve read one and not the other
i don’t want to spoil either one of them
for you
so like always let’s get into the
characters starting with
danica brown i adore her she’s bold
she’s funny she’s brilliant
but for someone who is so [ __ ] smart
like danny is
i just could not agree with some of the
decisions that she made
because frankly they were stupid i’ll
get into that in a minute but as a main
character i think i like danny a little
bit more than i like chloe
i do really like chloe but danny just
has this
confidence about her that i just really
really enjoy zaff
is like peta to me we stand
and he must be protected at all costs i
love him he’s such a gentle giant
i learned in term today cinnamon roll
and i guess staff falls into that
category i think i like characters like
that
basically it’s a male character who is
like
very sweet and soft and just
perfect for you and i think zaf is
perfect for danny
and i really love the concept of his
organization tackle it where he uses
rugby to teach young men
how to get in touch with their emotions
and process them
properly which a lot of people could
benefit from that
one of the background characters was
danny’s best friend sorcia i think her
name is
and i feel like she’s a good friend
but overall i felt like she was kind of
irrelevant to the story she didn’t
really
play a major role because even with
everything going on between danny
and zaff danny wasn’t really including
her
and all of that so i felt like she
wasn’t really in the story enough for me
to form a journal opinion
i kind of just feel indifferent zaff’s
best friend jamal i also think is a very
good friend
although i felt a little weird about his
relationship with zaf’s sister
sister-in-law whatever because
he made it seem like he didn’t want zaf
to know that they were together
but he obviously already knew and then
at the end he talks about
possibly marrying her so that makes me
think they’ve been together for a long
time so
i don’t know that just seemed a little
weird to me so if you saw my recent
video explaining my feelings on romance
then
you know that i’m not a huge fan of
tropes so danny’s whole
i’m not deserving of love because my
first boyfriend [ __ ] me over thing
i couldn’t get behind it one because
very few people
stay in their very first relationship
and
kudos to the people that do because it’s
not easy especially if you’re high
school sweethearts
those relationships don’t always last
that’s why people glorify the ones that
do
that one event also led her to stop
herself from ever getting into another
relationship
and that just doesn’t make sense to me
especially in the situation of her and
zaff she wants to be in a relationship
with him she is the one who initiated
the relationship after saying that it
was never gonna happen
so then when she broke it off she not
only hurt zap but more importantly she
hurt herself
so then what’s the point on the flip
side of that one thing that i do really
appreciate in romance novels is when
important topics are discussed in a
meaningful way
so i really loved the scene where danny
was being super supportive during zap’s
panic attack
and how she didn’t ask any questions she
literally just
sat down on the floor with him in the
middle of the street and told him to do
whatever
he needed to do that was a really great
scene i also loved when zapp finally
opened up about what happened to his
family and danny talked about losing her
nana
i just really enjoyed that because i
felt like it was real and relatable
i also love that danny’s anniversary
gift to zach was getting his favorite
book signed
literally there is no better gift for a
bookworm so as i mentioned before i only
ended up giving this one
four stars because of the tropes and the
decision that danny made it just
i just couldn’t get behind that because
the conflict felt so unnecessary when we
already knew
they were going to end up together in
the end technically this is not
a series but there is going to be a
third book actor age eve brown which
focuses on the youngest brown sister and
i
did pre-order it even though with the
snippets that we’ve gotten of eve in the
past two books
i don’t think i’m going to like her as
much as danny or chloe
she just seems really over the top and
not someone that i would actually be
friends with in real life
but i’m still going to read it and see
how it goes i believe that book will be
released in march
so if you have read taken danny brown
and or get a like chloe brown let me
know in the comments
let me know which one you read and how
you felt about it
and if you read both which one did you
like better i think it’s interesting
that even though i like danny moore as a
character i ended up liking chloe’s
whole story
overall better so i wonder if anybody
else feels that way
especially since more people tend to
like danny brown’s story overall much
better than chloe’s
that’s all i have for you today and i’ll
see you in the next video

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