Take a Hint, Dani Brown audiobook

Talia Hibbert is consistent with bringing us yet another cute romance story that’s great for a comfort read. I really dig the dynamic of the jaded, anti-romance female character paired with the sentimental, romance-loving male character. I enjoyed the smut, banter, and moments of compassion that the characters have for each other. Mental health struggles and anxiety were a large part of how they dealt with the world and relationships, so I appreciated seeing how kind and patient they were with each other as they figured things out together. The third act conflict is also a little bit better compared to Chloe Brown, since it didn’t come out of nowhere and give me whiplash this time around.

4.5

This book is addictive! Sooooo sweet! I’m mumbling “sweet and swoon” words like a sacred mantra for at least 45 minutes and I cannot stop! Ladies and gentleman: we officially have one of the dearest sweetest and hottest book couple and we’re introduced the best, charming, sexy, romantic, Alpha book- boyfriend Zafir ( Meaning of his name is victor, successful and triumphant one! Well, I may declare he triumphantly stole the most readers’ hearts!) I still have regrets to give 4 stars to Chloe and Red’s story because it was one of my romantic reads of last year. So I’m so adamant not to do some mistake again and starting my review by giving five opposites attract, sizzling chemistry, entertaining, quirky romantic, intellectually ravishing, blazing, hot and cutest- sweetest five gazillion stars! We’ve met Dani ( Her name is Slavic and it means “Morning star”! Even though our character is insomniac and night owl and she knows how to be shiny and energetic in the mornings thanks to Zaf’s uneaten protein bars!) at the first book and since I adored her sarcastic, witty, entertaining banters with her sisters and her quirky, likable antics, I was so excited to read her own book. In this book, we start learning more about her career driven moods, her ambitiousness to gain professional success. As an academician she is really workaholic and she doesn’t do relationships because she tells everyone it is a distraction to prevent her keep eye on the ball and work for her career oriented aims. But of course she keeps lying to herself because her first serious relationship broke her heart into smithereens and she thinks she’s emotionally cold and awkward so she doesn’t have anything to give anyone and she cannot change her emotionally disabled situation. Till she meets tempting security guard/ex rugby star Zafir Ansari working at her school, befriending her. Zafir looks intimidating, giving I’m going to kill in the middle of the night and getting away from your corpse without anyone’ notice looks but don’t be fooled by his gorgeous Hulk appearance. He is so delicately sweet, kind, nice and protective. He does anything for his family and the guy actually reads romance novels and enjoys them. When the fire drill at her work place goes wrong, Dani finds herself trapped in the elevator. Luckily Zafir finds out Dani didn’t leave the school and comes back for her. He saves his milady, holding her into his big and muscular arms and they find themselves as social media’s hottest topic with this unplanned but sexy and romantic rescue attempt! Zafir starts getting fundraising offers for his sports charity for kids. But getting more social awareness he needs to be photographed and tagged with his girlfriend. ( yes, everyone thinks he’s dating with Dani!) So he kindly asks Dani pretend as a couple for the great cause (he only thinks about the future of kids, right?) Dani accepts the offer. But both of them find out: they’re playing with fire. Zafir is romantic, possessive and he still tries to face his traumatic loss of his brother and father. And Dani is emotionally disturbed, rejecting to face her feelings but as long as they spend more time and get to know more about each other, they find out, they cannot stop to fall for each other! During my read, I laughed a lot, I sighed a lot and my eyes filled with tears. I think I loved Zafir more than Dani. I silently prayed and hoped Dani doesn’t break his heart! Normally it should be opposite but we have best book-boyfriend material in this book. You cannot help yourself not to root and chant for Zaf! Talia Hibbert did it again and wrote another fantastic Brown Sisters’ book. But this is also tormenting experience because we need to wait for one year to read the third one! Overall: I TRULY DEEPLY HOPELESSLY LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!So much thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins Publishers/Avon for sharing my most anticipated romance book’s ARC with me in exchange my honest review.bloginstagramfacebooktwitter

fanfuckingtastic. truly perfect in every way.

this was just everything. it was so funny, romantic & sexy while also tackling important issues like anxiety and dealing with the death of loved ones. the characters dani and zafir are both so well developed and so loveable, and their chemistry was THROUGH THE ROOF! i truly loved this book so so much. pre-order this book if you love adult romance and the fake dating trope!!! it comes out 23rd juneThank you so much to Avon Books for providing me with an ARC!

Hello this is a new all-time favorite rom-com and I AM OBSESSED. The chemistry between Dani and Zaf was off the charts and my heart IS SO DAMN FULL after finishing this beauty. Y'all know I loved Get a Life, Chloe Brown but somehow this one blew that one out of the water and was EVEN BETTER. Seriously, I am obsessed and this will officially be added into the rotation of rom-coms I re-read whenever I need a pick me up bc it was perfect. 10/10 do recommend!!!!!

i love dani brown so much and zaf is truly my kingreview to come!

This has all the ingredients of a great romance and I loved the main character's bluntness and the love interest's anxiety rep, but I'm just not a big fan of the fake dating trope. this book even poked fun at the fact that it's something that only happens in fiction but not in real life, but it still followed a pretty typical and predictable format, so it was less cheeky than I would've hoped. still, this had a lot of great quotes and made me laugh out loud and was quite cute. Definitely worth continuing the series if you've read book one!

Reasons to love this book:1. The king of all romance tropes - fake date and fall in bed/love, whatever comes first 2. Hero who's basically a golden retriever in a human body - Zafir Ansari, sweetest (fake) boyfriend and ardent romance reader, built like Thor but a total cinnamon roll 3. Decent diverse representation with none of the stereotypes - Muslim, poc and bisexual protagonists 4. Rolling-on-the-floor-laugh-your-ass-off banter and ready-to-climb-each-other-any-minute-even-with-clothes-on, gives-you-hot-flashes kind of scorching chemistry. 5. Realistic portrayal of mental health issues. Anxiety and panic attacks that don't go away because the person is in "lurveeee" and everything is magically hunky dory!6. DANIKA FUCKING BROWNHotshot academician, part time witch and full time sass queen, socially inept smartass who's sure to make you smile like crazy.So yeah, I'm gonna need another star for this awwwwesome book!

4.5 stars Last year I read Get a Life Chloe Brown, and while I liked it a lot it was one of those books where I didn’t quite get the hype. This book… I totally get the hype. I absolutely LOVED Take a Hint Dani Brown. Zaf and Dani were both fantastic characters and I enjoyed reading this so much. Dani Brown is career driven and doesn't want a relationship. Zafir and Dani are friends, but when he rescues her from an elevator and the whole thing ends up on line, things change. Zaf is an ex-Rugby player and they find they could both benefit from fake dating. Even though it is fairly obvious right away that Zaf would love to have more than Dani. Dani is interested in Zaf. Interested in sleeping with him. But with time, she sees he makes her happy, makes her life easier, and never makes her feel bad for being busy with work and school. Zaf is super supportive and the sweetest hero ever. I couldn't have loved him more. I also liked Dani's character a lot. She knew what she wanted and I can always appreciate that. I love the friends to lovers/fake dating troupe and this one did both of those so well. Talia Hibbert is an uber talented author and I'm looking forward to reading more from her, especially more of the Brown sisters.

4.5 stars TW: death of a parent & sibling; panic attacksThis was a delight. This is a fake-dating romance featuring a fat, Black, bisexual witch and a Muslim ex-rugby player with anxiety. I find Talia Hibbert’s books to be laugh out loud funny, with a rom-com movie flavor. The sex scenes and sexual language continue to be over the top, but I’m able to forgive it more in her writing because her writing doesn’t take itself too seriously. I also appreciate, having now read two of her books, that the conflict between the couple is always short lived and they talk about their feelings way more than many romance books I’ve read to avoid overly relying on the miscommunication trope. I will be continuing to read the books she puts out in the Brown Sisters series.

I think I enjoyed this one even more than Chloe Brown which I didn't think would be possible. This book is sooooo adorable and I love Dani's character so much. She's Black, she's British and she's bisexual!!! And there's fake dating in this book!!!! Which is one of my favorite tropes.I related to Dani's character so much when she would talk about her reason for why she doesn't date and she doesn't think she would make a good girlfriend and she prioritizes her career and her family and other things like wow I just related to her so much and I felt like I was being called out this entire book hahaha.Zaf is her love interest and he's also incredibly soft and adorable like Red from the first book. Their romance is so so cute and I love that they are fake dating at the start of this after a video of them goes viral, ahhh it's just so fun to read. I can't wait for the third book with the younger sister Eve! I love these Brown sister so so much.

SO. FREAKING. CUTE. Why are these books so good they make me want to cry? AHHH.

This was so sweet with a lot of diversity, swoon worthy sweet caring hero who reads romance books, sarcastic witty heroine who cares so much about her work and avoids relationships, and a fake dating trope. I couldn’t ask for more!!I loved how Zafir’s anxiety was shown in this book. It was tackled with so much care! I loved how sassy they both were and how they both truly know, support, and care for each other. I loved the ending of this book and how the grand gesture was done by Dani! It was so fitting for them and so adorable!! Usually I don’t really care about epilogues, but this one was so freakin cute! I loved Chloe’s book more, but I still enjoyed this one a lot.