Mazes has done it again! I actually stumbled upon Mazey’s books via Instagram and I am so glad I did! I knew when I read the synopsis for this book I would just love it. I love how Mazey not only bring humor and love to her books she also discusses serious issues such as mental health. It’s not something that is talked about a lot so I love that she is so honest and raw about it.

Jude and Indira. What can I say? I just love them so much! I love the sassy banter. The angst. And I love that they were there for each other during their dark times. Mazey, if you’re reading this just know your an auto buy for me!

Jude and Indira have always been at each others throats over everything. They picked on each other their whole childhood but those things are changing. Indira seems to have the perfect life...that is until she walks in on her boyfriend and some other girl and a jar of peanut butter...She is destroyed. Jude on the other hand is a wreck. He is currently a doctor who has to travel to low-income, war zone areas in order to pay off his student loans. Jude is also best friends with Indira's older brother so he comes back to town for his wedding he reconnects with Indira. When Jude learns of Indira's recent mishap with her boyfriend, they decide to "fake date" to make him jealous. It works and they are spending a lot more time together than they expected and they realized it isn't all bad.

I absolutely loved this book. There were so many topics that were addressed that I flagged to go back to such as supporting someone you care about even through their trauma and not being there to fix it, but to work through it together. The topic of mental health was very prevalent in the book, but I liked how it was something that was discussed when the characters were comfortable and how Indira gave him time to open up on his own. Just so many things about this book made me smile and I really enjoyed it. It had a little bit of spice, but not too much.

I received a advanced reader copy for an honest review.

So lets just say this book surprised me . It had my favorite tropes grumpy/sunshine and enemies to lovers.

For Indira and Jude it seemed so simply be each other fake wedding date. But with all that said this was not your typical rom com.

Just shows that broken people need and are deserving of love. Then add the banter, bickering and the amazing spice.

This book is definitely not to be missed.

Mazey Eddings is now three for three on 5-star books and also making me cry 😭

Indira and Jude's story was so so so good. It took me a bit to get into it because I had so many other books going on at the same time, but once I was about 25% into it, I couldn't put it down. Their relationship and feelings for each other were so intense (partially because they'd known each other their whole lives) that it felt like I was running to catch up with them (but not in a bad way?).

I loved how supportive Indira was to Jude while he was working through all of his feelings and his hurt. She never wanted to fix him, but she was just THERE for him through everything. It was a perfect balance of her using her skills as a psychiatrist to nudge him the right direction to seek help without actually becoming his therapist.

I'm sad this is the end of this series because I've loved living in this little world that Mazey has created! I love this little friendship group and the partners they've found (and especially the emphasis on mental health in all her books!!!), but I'm also super excited to read what she writes next because I know it will be amazing 🤩

I love every second of this book.
The enemies to friends to lovers. The therapy and mental health representation. The banter. The spice. I loved it all. I am very excited for the world to see this book and experience Jude and Indira!

Mazey Eddings continues to blow me away! Her writing style is so thoughtful and witty. She is excellent at creating characters with great depth of personality that the reader really gets to know throughout the story. I thought the mental health rep in this book was extremely well done and felt so realistic. At times the book did get pretty heavy emotionally but this just helped you feel for the characters even more.

I cannot wait to read more of Mazey's books in the future.

The Plus One was my first book by Mazey Eddings, and I'm really looking forward to going back and reading the first two books in the "A Brush With Love" universe. Excellent characters. Realistic emotions. Hilarious banter. Some decent steam. I absolutely loved this book. A+!

This book had it all for me and that was it. I had to read this to see what it was all about. I was not disappointed and enjoyed the content. Enjoyed this book. I want to find more of her books.

4 ⭐️’s!

This was adorable! Absolutely delightful. I’m not a fan of third person POV, but Mazey Eddings made it seem more personable and fun. Even quirky.

I loved Indira’s character so much. She was such a spitfire. Watching her with Jude was a sweet romantic journey that I’ll want to reread.

And I can’t forget Jude! Loved the mental health representation in this and the support of therapy. Definitely will recommend this book and will be adding Lizzie Blake’s book to my TBR as well.

I read an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Once I read the acknowledgements, it became clear why the tone of the book was sometimes so serious and sad. Eddings said she had been living with PTSD for a long time.
While I found the process of the two main characters coming together enjoyable, it was also very draining at times. I feel that it's where I am right now, not the writing itself that has made me feel this way. Was lovely to see the other characters from the previous books though.
3.5 stars

Mazey Eddings continues to deliver! I really loved this book too. Such a sweet and hilarious romance with tropes that will such you in and not allow you to put your book down! I love how she beautifully portrays different types of mental health issues in all of her latest books. In The Plus One, Mazey Eddings introduces us to someone dealing with PTSD and she brilliantly portrays this issue and how one (and their significant other) copes with it through her raw and emotional characters. I was really invested in this story and I was attached to every character. I can’t wait to see what she give us next.

Mazey Eddings is such an exciting voice to have as a writer. She clearly cares about her characters and the things she is writing about. I enjoy her ability to make a swoon worthy romance that also touches deeper, this time with PTSD. The couple was so sweet together and I loved that there was not any sort of crazy conflict or miscommunication. I loved how sensitive Eddings was to PTSD and mental health while also not making it the only thing about the main character because real people are multifaceted and so should the characters.

A very steamy enemies to lovers trope with forced proximity and fake dating. Some heavy topics are covered with an intro and trigger warning by the author. There were some moving and thought provoking moments that were overshadowed by the fast progression of steamy scenes and excessive use of repittion and expletives. The book is not what I consider a rom com and could have been shorter.

i loved this one. Personally, I think it's Mazey Eddings' strongest work and I was cracking up on one page then bawling my eyes out the next. I love seeing actual comedy in a rom-com

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press/St. Martin’s Griffin and Netgalley for an ARC of this book! I’ve willingly read and reviewed it. All opinions are my own.

THE PLUS ONE by Mazey Eddings is the third installment in the A Brush with Love series and, just like the novels that came before it, involves characters coping with mental health struggles while falling in love.

Mazey Eddings has absolutely crushed it with each of these books, so skillful in portraying different types of mental health issues caused by a myriad of outside (and often internal) forces that I’ve been able to find tiny pieces of myself in all of her characters, making them widely relatable to any reader.

THE PLUS ONE follows Indira, a psychiatrist, who has moved in with her brother and his fiancé after catching her boyfriend cheating on her—the boyfriend who will also be in her brother’s wedding because he is the other groom’s cousin. However, her brother’s lifelong best friend and Indira’s “nemesis,” Jude, is also staying with the couple, on leave from his job as an emergency medicine surgeon who is posted in war-torn countries where he has seen too much trauma and is struggling with his mental health while trying to hide it from his friends and family.

There were so many other things to love about THE PLUS ONE in addition to the focus on mental health: a fake dating plot that turns into much more, one tent to be shared by two people with simmering tension between them, reuniting with characters from previous books, and, perhaps the most exciting, no third act break up! And while the resolution to Jude’s work situation was definitely bittersweet, it was a good reminder that life sometimes changes in ways that are necessary and for the best.

I am in love with Mazey Eddings and her characters. This was incredible. We've got brothers best friend, childhood frienemies, one bed while camping, a halloween fiasco, an over the top wedding, family drama, forced proximity, fake dating, incredible back stories. I doesn't get any better. I thought the mental health rep in her was great and how it was handled was great. I couldn't put this down because I needed the two characters to just shut up and kiss eachother already. Their support of one another was perfection.

Childhood enemies reunite years later only to discover that there just might be something between them. Indira has a perfect life on paper: an amazing job, a boyfriend, and a car... except she’s just walked into said boyfriend hooking up with a stranger in their place and he locked up her cat? Yeah relationship over. In order to recoup, she decides to stay with her brother and his fiancee for a while... but what she doesn’t expect is to run into her childhood enemy who just happens to be back in town for her brother’s wedding. Jude is a doctor, he’s spent the last three years traveling the world to treat emergencies and humanitarian crises and made a trip back home for his best friend’s wedding... except he’s barely hiding the fact that he is most definitely not okay. Jude is cracking under the pressure of his job, he suffers from extreme PTSD, has sensory overloads, and is riddled with guilt, anxiety, and trauma. He’s not okay and the only person who seems to notice and actually see him is the one person he least expected, his best friend’s little sister, Indira. Indira and Jude can barely be in a room together without bickering and fighting... yet underneath the arguing is something more, something safe and soft. Both Jude and Indira are now living in the same space and when Jude notices that Indira’s cheating ex... who just happens to be the fiancee’s cousin is also attending the wedding with the woman he cheated on her with he offers her a bargain: they pretend to be each other’s fake dates to the wedding and in exchange Indira will help him because for some reason she’s the only thing that’s been helping him feel grounded lately. Both Indira and Jude are dealing with heavy baggages and they both know that there is something between them, but can they overcome their pains and differences to embrace the affection that started off fake but has grown to be something more between them? This was an absolute gem of a book, filled with cute rom com moments as well as angst and such heart breaking moments. I cried, I’m gonna be honest, I cried while reading this because it was just so deep and wonderful and heart wrenching. I’m gonna say it, Jude and Indira are my favorite couple from this series, and while we get cameos of the other couples and friends from the previous books, it was such an amazing read. I adored the way Jude and Indira constantly fought for each other, they fought for their love and their relationship, and it was glorious. Please add this to your tbr immediately!!!

*Thanks Netgalley and St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

Mazey Eddings has done it again!
Firstly, let me tell you how shocked/amazed/thrilled I was to receive an ARC for the highly anticipated third novel in this series. (I’m still kind of pinching myself.) Secondly, let me tell you how invested I became in the characters in The Plus One. Beautifully flawed and complex and not the least bit formulaic, these characters endeared themselves to me right from the start. They’re relatable and realistic and the character arc that Mazey Eddings takes them through - particularly our beautiful boy Jude - was just a wonderful story to read. Thank you Mazey for not breaking our hearts but giving the reader just enough building anticipation to keep the pages turning.
Mazey Eddings has become an auto buy author for me. I can’t recommend these novels enough, and The Plus One lives up to her already high standard for character chemistry and spice. Oh yes, I haven’t mentioned the spice yet, have I? Chef’s kiss (insert satisfying sigh here…)
Can’t wait to see what Mazey Eddings comes up with next.

this book was outrageously hilarious and so adorable!! it’s no secret that i’m an major @mazeyeddings fan and obsessed with a brush with love & lizzie blake’s best mistake and the plus one lived up to the hype!
i loved Indira and Jude’s banter and the friendship between indira, lizzie, harper, and thu!
jude and his mental health was a highlight of the book for me and it was so well written.

do yourself a favour and pick this book up when it comes out! super quick, funny and cute 🥰

The Plus One by Mazey Eddings focuses on Indira and her brother’s best friend Jude, childhood enemies each with their own reasons for needing someone by their side during the numerous events of Indira’s brother’s wedding. Naturally, this means they enter into a fake relationship.

The Plus One is a fake dating story like none I’ve ever read before. While learning about the characters in the opening chapters, and seeing their pain, I couldn’t wait for them to fully experience love. I am honored to have had the privilege to witness their story.

*Truly endless thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Mazey Eddings for this ARC!