EDIT: Reread 11/19 -- I've been in a bit of a slump lately so I decided to return to a recent favorite when I found out the audiobook for Chloe Brown was on Hoopla. The narrator was amazing and wow, what a good time. I've upped my rating to 5 stars for how happy this audiobook has made me over the past few days.

ORIGINAL REVIEW:
Firstly, I'd like to officially thank the romance novel industry's collective graphic design team for making the shift from photographs of two people almost kissing to these cute pastel cartoons.

Alright, on to the review.

If you've read a good amount of romance you know that they can be pretty algorithmic. I've pointed this out before (specifically in my review of The Unhoneymooners), but I want to talk about it again here because Hibbert follows this algorithm in all of the books of hers that I've read.

So here's how it goes:
1) Brief introduction for each of our main characters, probably a chapter or two each.
2) Meet cute / first contact at around 7%
3) Resistance, courtship, relationship starting 10-30%
4) Characters get together! Sex! 35-40%
5) Cuteness (but also reveal of the Conflict of the book) 40-80%
6) Misunderstanding/miscommunication and/or culmination of conflict leads to breakup 85-90%
7) Grand gesture! Triumph over evil! MC's back together, HEA 95%
8) Time jump epilogue 97%

There's nothing inherently wrong with this blueprint. However, I will note that there are two main pitfalls of it: it can get repetitive and boring, and step 6 is easy to do wrong. These are the two things that made me dislike The Unhoneymooners.

Talia Hibbert's books never feel repetitive and she never does step 6 wrong.

Get a Life, Chloe Brown is the story of chronically ill Chloe Brown deciding to start living her life outside her comfort zone after a near-death experience. Her first step? Moving into her own apartment where she meets Red, the superintendent. The two make a deal and Red agrees to help Chloe with her list in exchange for her help with creating an online presence for his art.

Both characters feel real and relatable and the plot never feels forced. Hibbert's books always make me feel just...happy. I was just sitting in bed grinning ear to ear reading this and I'm sure my roommate thinks I'm insane. Genuinely funny and joyously genuine.

ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley