Let’s start with our first introduction to Eve and Jacob: the very first sentences we get about each of them in their own POV. But just as Eve and Jacob start to appear differently to the reader, they move to an interesting piece of common ground, as neither one of them yet fully perceives who the other one is. It’s when they first meet that their distinct personalities – an order-loving grump and a chaotic ray of sunshine- snap into place. But in so doing, they come across to the reader as two people with a very similar struggle to be seen and understood. In the two short moments where Eve and Jacob present themselves, they focus on how they are misunderstood by others. Shortly after that first introduction, we then see Jacob through Eve’s eyes and vice versa. Eve Brown is written in alternating 3rd person POV, and it’s organized such that both Eve and Jacob are introduced individually to the reader in their own POV sections. CWs are provided in the front matter of the book.īecause so much of this book is about seeing and being seen, it stands to reason that a lot rides on the moment the reader first sees Eve and Jacob, and the moment they first see each other. Like Eve, the heat between them is impossible to ignore-and it’s melting Jacob’s frosty exterior.Ĭover image and blurb from the author’s website. Sunny, chaotic Eve is his natural-born nemesis, but the longer these two enemies spend in close quarters, the more their animosity turns into something else. Before long, she’s infiltrated his work, his kitchen-and his spare bedroom. Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to help. Then she hits him with her car- supposedly by accident. So when a purple-haired tornado of a woman turns up out of the blue to interview for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. The bed and breakfast owner’s on a mission to dominate the hospitality industry-and he expects nothing less than perfection. It’s time for Eve to grow up and prove herself-even though she’s not entirely sure how… But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding ( someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong-so she’s given up trying.

Grow up eve brown