Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Danika Brown is an ambitious PhD candidate in sociology in an English university town, a self-declared workaholic with a clear preference for no-strings arrangements, and she is hoping the goddess she occasionally prays to will deliver her a low-maintenance friend-with-benefits. What she gets instead is a viral video of Zafir Ansari, the building's handsome ex-rugby-player security guard, rescuing her in a fire drill, a misunderstanding that turns the pair into an internet-famous meme, and a ready-made excuse to fake-date for the algorithm. Zafir is a widowed Muslim hero recovering from anxiety who runs a youth charity and has not had time for romance in years. Talia Hibbert's 2020 second Brown Sisters novel is funny, heat-forward, and unusually careful with anxiety, faith, and the realities of a Black woman academic's life.
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Bookish PhD candidate Dani Brown and the campus security guard Zafir Ansari fake date for the sake of a viral video he was tagged in carrying her out of a fire drill. Both have agreed to keep it casual.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown is the second book in Talia Hibbert's Brown Sisters trilogy, after Get a Life, Chloe Brown and before Act Your Age, Eve Brown. Each features a different sister.
Yes. Take a Hint, Dani Brown contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance is between Dani and the campus security guard Zafir, a friends-to-lovers slow burn.
Yes. Take a Hint, Dani Brown contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance is between Dani and the campus security guard Zafir, a friends-to-lovers slow burn.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown was written by Talia Hibbert, published in 2020 by Avon.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown is 400 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Take a Hint, Dani Brown takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown is a standalone novel by Talia Hibbert, not part of a series.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
