I can’t begin to express how much I adore this book. As someone who has ADHD, I felt so seen in Lizzie. I’ve been joking for months that Lizzie is a gorgeous chaos demon and she truly is. Mazey writes with such passion that it is genuinely hard to not fall in love with all of them. Also, for all the horny jokes made about A Brush with Love, Mazey stepped it up in LBBM. Lizzie is simply unashamedly herself. She embraces who she is and navigates through life not using her ADHD as an excuse, but as a stepping off point. She is exactly enough as she is.

This book has a surprise pregnancy and I think that Mazey handled the subject with immense care. It’s not handled lightly and watching Lizzie and Rake get ready for their happy accident tugs on all your heartstrings. I loved how deeply Rake loves Lizzie. And the delicious mutual pining between the two (and delicious erotic baking too 👀)

I am so glad that this book exists. And that Mazey exists. You need Lizzie and Rake in your life. I could say so much more about this book, but I think that you should read this masterpiece for yourself.

CWs: ADHD, ableism, conversations about an abortion in a character’s past, pregnancy, mental illness, on-page explicit sex
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Disclaimer: the author and I are friends and I read a copy of this a while ago. This has not impacted my review and all my thoughts are my own.