Talia Hibbert

Ruth Kabbah is okay with being an outcast. Between her autism, her comic book nerdery, and the whiff of scandal her small town can’t forget, Ruth will always be Ravenswood’s black sheep. Since she prefers silence and solitude to gossip and pub crawls, that suits her just fine—until Evan Miller comes to town. Ex-military man Evan is gorgeous, confident… and he’s Ruth’s new neighbour. Unlike everyone else, he doesn’t seem to mind her crotchety ways or her cooking disasters. In fact, if Ruth didn’t know any better, she might think Evan <i>likes</i> her. But Ruth’s been burned before, and some lessons are hard to forget. She can’t let her guard down—no matter how many home-cooked meals Evan brings over. Because affection is temporary, trust is made to be broken, and the heat of desire is a dangerous thing to play with. So why does this man feel so safe? The Ravenswood Series #1: A Girl Like Her #1.5: Damaged Goods #2: Untouchable #3: That Kind of Guy

A Girl Like Her

Nicki

Mm. Not amazing. Not terrible. Just okay for what it is I guess. I enjoy the writer’s style but I had a hard time dealing with some of the portrayal. I can’t offer much insight into whether the writer did an accurate portrayal of an autistic lead. Overall pretty decent and encouraged me to pick something else up to read from the author.

Becky

My first attempt to read this book I got 20% in and DNF. I felt like the plot was too slow and got bored. I wasn't wrong the plot was slow in this, it was quieter and wasn't full of drama like some romances but this time around it was sweet and I loved it for that. This fully demonstrates how important my mood is to reading and so often I DNF a book because of things which aren't the book.

Ruth and Evan were an adorable couple. Ruth was grumpy and anti-social and hated people. I got that. And then Evan was her sweet, kind happy neighbour knocking on her door to provide her with a meal as a way to greet her and introduce himself. He then learns she doesn't have an oven ad he starts coming round regularly to feed her. Why did I not have a man knocking on my door offering to provide me with meals with I moved into my house? But anyway, that is the general plot of this book. It's a quiet read. There is the plot of why Ruth is quiet so anti-social and the man who screwed her over in the post and made her wary of men but even that wasn't angsty. Ruth realised her strength and told him where to shove it in the end. 

That's probably why I wasn't in love first time around, it is quieter and it won't be for everyone but I really loved it. I loved the switch round of the grumpy and sunshine character, why aren't there more grumpy women in romance?

Tanja Hoffmann

Simone Rhodes

3.5 stars

This story was cute but it felt so similar to Get A Life, Chloe Brown in some ways and a tad bit of Act Your Age, Eve Brown that it impacted my enjoyment. This book was published before the Brown Sister series and feels like it was starting point for those books in a sense. 

The main characters were loveable but I wish we got more depth to Evan. Ruth is mostly fleshed out but I felt like I knew more about her ex on a deeper level than I did Evan which isn’t saying much. I really enjoyed his patience with her and his determination to always ensure she was feeling emotionally secure and safe. There is obvious attraction between them and Talia does not miss with the smut. In turn, I also enjoyed the mending of the relationship between Ruth and her sister. At the start there is a unexplained strain between them which ties to the plot.

With regards to the plot, it left much to be desired as I spent most of the book intrigued to discover the story of how her past relations with Daniel lead to the repercussions on her livelihood. However, once everything was revealed I felt utterly underwhelmed. I’m not a plot driven reader so a plot can be weak and I still love the story but in this case the characters were already familiar (Chloe and Red personas) and so nothing felt “new” to me.

If you’re looking for another Get A Life, Chloe Brown story you may enjoy this.

Ruth Parker 

3.5 stars rounded up because I liked the characters a lot.
Ruth has a last she doesn’t want people to know about. Unfortunately the whole of her town seems to know. Enter her new neighbour Evan, an unbelievably gorgeous guy who seems to genuinely want to get to know her. But is that just because of the rumours he’s heard about Ruth? And what actually happens if they fall for each other and Ruth finally has to face the world again....?

This was an awesome representation of someone of the Autism Spectrum. It wasn’t outlandish or over the top and I wasn’t surprised to find out the author is on the ADS herself. It was honest and believable.
And I love the characters, fell a little bit for Evan and Zack and I’ll thinking of reading on in the series for me.

If you like sexy smutty scenes then this has them for you! I’m not a fan and while these were well written, the more often they came up the more I found myself skipping the pages until the mention of nipples and erections was gone...

Samantha Emery

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★Book Basics★ 


  Genre
: - Cont. Romance 

  Series
: - 1st in the series

  Love triangle?
 - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)]

  Cheating?
 - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)]

  HEA? -
 (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)]

  Would I read more by this author/or in this series? 
-Yes

  Rating 
- 5+++ stars


★Review★

I adored this story! Adored, adored adored adored!

I loved the heroine. She was wonderfully prickly and geeky! She also just happens to be autistic but she is so much more than these inadequate descriptions. She is a great heroine, dealing with the fall out of a awful relationship and generally having hidden herself.

And the hero, was just a genuinely nice guy. I loved him!

This story was so relateable. It was real people, with real issues, a "bad guy" that was not bad in an ott cartoonish way. Actually he was a bad guy in a sadly maddeningly realistic way. 

I found how they became friends first beautiful and I was so happy all the time I was reading this, my face ached from smiling. I immediately grabbed everything else I could from this author off Amazon. 

An excellent 5 stars

b.andherbooks

Evan Miller thinks his neighbor must be a curmudgeon, an old grumpy man. They bump around at odd hours of the night, never seem to leave their apartment, and never has company. 

What Evan isn't expecting is the definitely grumpy, but wildly sexy Ruth Kabbah. He also isn't expecting to hear that Ruth is the town pariah for some sort of long ago incident involving Evan's boss, the local rich boy and a total asshole.

For Ruth, growing up as a black woman with Autism Spectrum Disorder in a teeny, tiny English town, has not been easy, especially since "the incident." Embracing her outcast status, Ruth keeps to herself, drawing her web-comic, wearing her beloved pajamas, and trying, for her beloved sister, to be happy.

Ruth doesn't understand and is leery of Evan's kindness and her absolute attraction to the massive, bear size hunk. Doesn't he understand he's supposed to hate her?

As Evan and Ruth size each other up, Ruth will come to find out she is worth all of Evan's efforts.

I heard about this author from Twitter, and recently bought a cheap-o subscription to Kindle Unlimited (all of Hibbert's titles are available on KU) and I'm sold! At first I wasn't aware of the UK setting, but once that was sorted in my brain I loved all the British-isms. Ruth is a great character, a woman who is very angry for very okay reasons, and the hero isn't scared of this and isn't trying to change her. That said, Evan was almost *too* perfect, but hell whatever. All men should aspire to be Evan.

Ironically, I picked this title because it was the first title I saw, and I didn't realize until I started that Ruth has Autism Spectrum Disorder. I recently read (and also loved) Helen Hoang's The Kiss Quotient, which also features a female character with ASD. The authors of both books also have ASD, so the handling of the story and characters felt authentic and real, not badly stereo-typed.