Review: Take a Hint, Dani Brown

Hi Welcome back! I hope you are having a good reading day so far. Today is not a tea day, headaches are not fun let me tell you. Sometimes tea helps, and sometimes it just doesn’t. Unfortunately today is one of the days that it doesn’t help. I’m writing a review for a genre that I don’t typically read at least in the non-fantasy version. And that is Romance, I love Fantasy Romance and it is a genre that I pick up frequently, especially when I am not feeling well. But I read Get a Life, Chloe Brown a couple of months ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I couldn’t wait to pick up the “sequel” I’m not sure if you’d consider this a solid series or a series of companion books. Either way, Take a Hint, Dani Brown did not disappoint.

Take a Hint, Dani Brown follows Dani Brown the middle brown sister as she is working towards her PhD. She meets a cute security guard Zafir Ansari who is a retired Rugby player. Through various machinations, including mild witchcraft and college students with video capabilities. They are thrust into a fake dating relationship, where unknown to each other they have both secretly been crushing on each other. Zaf in the I want to date you sense and Dani in the I want to bang you sense, possibly regularly.

When Zaf who has been a private person since retiring from Rugby is suddenly thrust into the spotlight again he doesn’t quite know how to handle it. We see Zaf wrestle with his anxiety and depression. The anxiety he has struggled with her whole life, but the depression appeared after he lost his brother and father is a car accident. Dani ends up helping him see that the unexpected publicity from his daring rescue from an elevator during an evacuation drill could be used for good to help get his non-profit off the ground.

I loved this book, I loved the representation of anxiety and how Zaf both handles it and ignores it because it is so human. Dani also struggles with allowing people to get close to her due to something her first boyfriend did (cheating, instead of just breaking up like a decent person). So as they work through their individual issue both together and separately it was so human. And something that a lot of us probably struggle with as well on a daily basis in various forms.

This book made me laugh, it made me cry, and it made my mental health seem seen by the bookish world. Do yourself a favor and go read the Brown Sister books, I can’t wait to get the Eve’s book now.

Till next!
Kaitlyn