booking_along 's review for:

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
3.75
emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i really enjoyed this entire series.

i loved how it was so natural about disabilities of any kind  and how it never made a big deal of anyone needing help or having a specific thing/characteristic, but that the books instead showed that it’s more than okay to be the very specific you that only you can be. 

that being said i wasn’t a huge fan of the sex scenes specially in this book. i would have preferred it they would have just faded into black, because the how sweet and cute the character behaved didn’t match in the overly specific and graphic descriptions of the sex moments. and it’s not  because i mind erotic scenes but because i honestly just found the drastic change of tone between the overly cute, sometimes silly and sweet behavior between them too big of a contrast to suddenly read how eve comes extreme hard in his face while he pumps a huge purple dildo into her. 

i also really disliked the constant plot of “something comes up to make them fight and one of them leave before one or both of them run back to each other”  is overdone and should finally be retired, especially since in this trilogy it was overused with all three books having the exact same plot structure. 
but mostly it bothered me in this book because it didn’t fit.
jacob knows that eve isn’t great at remembering it telling people what she decided. he knows it well enough to remind her a few times if something important comes up that she might forget because of all the other things that she sees as more important at the moment. 
but than he gets mad because of that reason?
makes no sense to me


also jacobs traits of perfectionism and professionalism are forgotten sometime after the first few chapters for the most parts? and it focuses mostly on eves traits after that and how jacob notices that she could have autism. 
it’s never mentioned that he might too or at least have some form of ocd with how perfectly he has to have everything and his believe that only that way works. how he needs a handbook to work with people and doesn’t understand emotional responses.


all in all?

this is a good books
fun to read has good character and great representation of all kinds of things and normalizes disabilities in the most beautiful way that i wish more people would finally do.

but it had a good list of flaws that didn’t work too well for me. 

overall it’s an enjoyable read and a good overall ending for the series