![]() Popsugar Reading challenge category: A book by a neurodivergent author. Take a Hint, Dani Brown, by Talia Hibbert. This is the second book in Hibbert's Brown Sisters trilogy, which started with Get a Life, Chloe Brown. Each can be read as a standalone, as each sister plays only a minor role in her siblings' stories. This one makes good use of the friends-to-lovers and fake-dating tropes. Zafir is a security guard at the university where Dani teaches. He rescues her when she's stuck in an elevator, and the romantic-looking video of him carrying her goes viral. It occurs to him that pretending to date would generate good publicity for the children's charity that he runs. How can she say no? As with Chloe's story, Hibbert addresses some serious issues, even while her characters are having fun. Zafir suffered a tragic loss that led to severe anxiety, which ended his promising career as a rugby player. I wondered about the religious difference, which kinda got glossed over: he's Muslim, she worships a traditional African orisha. While Zafir doesn't seem all that devout, idols are very much frowned upon in Islam, and she has a large idol of the love Goddess Oshun. What I enjoyed most was the role reversal: Dani is looking for a fling, and Zafir is looking for a relationship like the ones in the romance novels he reads. Zaf is so much not the stereotypical macho hero: his charity uses rugby coaching to teaches boys about healthy, non-toxic masculinity. And that, of course, is bound to win Dani's heart.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |