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!

The Plus One by @mazeyeddings was an amazing and beautifully written story about Jude and Indira.

Jude had spent the past three years working in war torn areas as a surgeon and is stateside to celebrate his best friend, since elementary school, Collin’s wedding. Indira is Collin’s little sister and Jude nemesis for the same amount of time that Jude has known Collin. They always bickered growing up and not much has changed when they both land themselves staying with Collin and his Fiancé.

However one thing that did change was Jude’s mental health from his 3 years spent away for work. He is suffering from severe PTSD. Indira is a psychiatrist and can notice immediately that something is wrong. The two of them agree to help each other during the wedding festivities by being each other’s plus one with a side of fake dating.

I instantly feel for Jude. He was just simply perfect with all of his imperfections. My heart broke for him countless times when a loud noise would go off or he was startled. Indira was everything that Jude needed and I loved how supportive she was without being pushy. I could write for hours about how much I loved this and still not say enough. However, I’m going to go read Harper’s and then Lizzie’s love stories now.

Thank you @netgalley for the ARC and providing me a chance to discover Mazey!
Release Date: April 4, 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔥 Scene: Halloween

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Such a good read and Mazey Eddings delivers very single time. With every book in this trilogy, I love the characters more and more. Jude is the sweetest tortured soul that you can't help but root for. Indira is your fiesty but slightly insecure because she's type A. The combo of the two is just endearing. It's such a relatable dynamic because we all know that couple where one is a broody person and the other overthinks everything because of their insecurities.

Tropes: fake dating, enemies to lovers, forced proximity - pretty much the most elite tropes in romance books.

The overall feel is a very realist, emotional and funny, and endearing because you can't help but root for Indira after being cheated on.

The one thing I really appreciate from the author is she always does such an amazing job portraying characters with mental health needs and showing the supportive characters around them.

Highly, highly recommend! 10/10

Thank you Netgally, St. Martin's, and Mazey Edding for this wonderful read.

This was the third Mazey Eddings book I have read and I started this book right after reading “Lizzie Blakes Best Mistake” which helped me get pulled into this story right away as I feel like Indira was a fully formed character to me after her being in the two previous stories. Steadfast, reliable, caring, loyal. She seemed like an old friend already.
What makes Mazey’s stories so unique is that they grapple with such dark and deep mental health issues, but she does a masterful job at wrapping them into such beautiful, cohesive love stories. She always begins her books with a content warning, outlining the issues the characters are facing, and any triggers that may come to the reader while reading. In this story, Jude faces PTSD from being a medical provider in Emergency situations. The authors note at the end made me cry as it was so brave of her to talk about her own history with PTSD. As someone who also suffered from PTSD, I really truly appreciated her bringing a character so lovely and deep suffering from PTSD into a love story. Really so heartwarming, so well done.
I found Colin & Jeremy so fun! I would love a spinoff book with them. Maybe how they got together!?
I also really enjoyed getting a glimpse back into characters from the first & second books. It was just nice to have a continuation of those characters a tiny bit. I may have enjoyed this story the most out of the three in the series. I cannot wait to read more Mazey Eddings books in the future and want to thank St. Martin's Press so very much for this ARC. I am truly grateful!

<b> <I> Thank you so much to Net Galley, the author, and the publisher for providing me with a free copy of “The Plus One” by Mazey Eddings in exchange for an honest review. All of the following opinions are formulated on my own. Any quotes in this review should be cross-referenced with the final copy for any possible edits.</I> </b>

<b> Overall rating: </b> 4 out of 5 stars

<b> Do you need to read the series this spinoff is based on?: </b> I would say it is not necessary. I had not read them. It may help though!

<b> My review: </b> The Plus One was an alluring combination of emotional, steamy, and exciting enemies to lovers set during the weeks leading up to Dira's brother's wedding. The only issue? Her brother's best man drives her insane. Top tier bickering!


<b> If you liked the following, you will probably like this book: </b>
<I> - The Spanish Love Deception
- Unhoneymooners </i>

<b> Will I finish the series? </b> I am unsure of this currently.

<b> Themes/Tropes: </b>
- Grumpy/Sunshine
- Childhood Enemies
- Enemies to Lovers
- Brother's Best Friend
- Fake Dating
- Mental Health/Trauma Awareness

The Plus One - Mazey Eddings

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“… but he was learning it was okay to let go of things you love if they no longer serve you.”

Indira and Jude have despised one another since they were kids. So when the two of them decide to be each other’s (fake) wedding date, their friends and family are left confused and wondering what suddenly changed between them. The thing is, Indira and Jude aren’t even sure what changed between them. All they know is that their problems become more manageable when the other is around and things don’t seem so bad. But their fake displays of affection, trips down memory lane, and moments of shared vulnerability have them questioning their entire relationship. Is it possible to have feelings for your childhood nemesis and want the best for them after all?

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Shoutout to Mazey Eddings for writing a hilariously brilliant rom-com that isn’t all rainbows and butterflies. These characters have experienced such hardships and, as the reader, we get to see them work through those struggles in search of the light. This book explored mental illness, normalized therapy, and was simply raw and vulnerable.

Don’t let this cute cover fool you, though. This book was steamy 🥵. The banter between these characters was everything and kept me laughing and smiling. Mazey gave us childhood enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, brother’s best friend, fake dating, and more.

The Plus One comes out in April 2023 and is available for pre-order now!

Thank you to Netgalley, Mazey Eddings, and St. Martin’s Press for this early copy of The Plus One. All opinions are honest and my own.

Mazey Eddings is easily becoming one of my favorite romance authors, seriously I cannot get enough. I love Indira so much. I appreciate Mazey writing about very real things that happen when you have PTSD and/or trauma from serious life events (like Indiras dad leaving them and starting a new life with a different family as if he didn't already have one). I am sad that the Brush with Love series is ending :( I think there is a perfect amount of spice, serious conversations, and watching their relationship develop. A perfect trope of my best friends sibling/brother best friend.

THE PLUS ONE by Mazey Eddings 💕

If you like novels with enemies to frenemies to lovers, brother’s best friends, and mental health discussion, you’ll love this book.


I loved Mazey Eddings’ first two books, and I couldn’t wait to read her new book. The Plus One is funny, full of dirty talk and sexy scenes, but at the same time heavy and heart-rending. In this story, Mazey describes the difficult subject of mental health issues/PTSD in a brilliant and raw way, and through her vulnerable characters, Jude and Indira, she shows the importance of seeking support from mental health professionals and people you trust and feel most safe.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press and Mazey Eddings for an ARC.

Mazey Eddings is one of my top 5 authors and I will scream that until I die!!!!! This book was emotional, raw, funny, and everything I wanted it to be and more. I love this friend group and I already miss it so much. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

The fake dating trope is one of my favorites, so I knew this was going to be a hit for me! I was right and I absolutely devoured this and even laughed out loud while reading. I can't wait until this is released to share with my book club!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC.

This was such a good book - a genuinely unexpected gem of a romance! It avoids the worst of the cliches in the romance genre, while still putting the main characters through their paces to get to the payoff at the end. Also, the spicy bits made me blush (in a very good way). Highly recommended.

2.5 🌟’s.

📝 tropes: enemies to lovers, brothers best friend, mental health rep, stem MC's, fake dating, only one bed
🌶 spice: 3/5
❌ CW: PTSD, cheating ex, parental neglect/divorce

oh man, this one definitely flopped for me :/ very disappointed as i absolutely ADORED mazey’s other two works.. this one had major structural problems where the fake dating/hate to love trope played out in a small portion but then the couple got together for the majority of it?? there was none of that tension i wanted or slow burn. and it was just super repetitive or drawn out with them having sex or being all lovey dovey w/o any sort of development to getting there?

the main reason i gave this the 2.5 stars is primarily due to mazey’s writing ability and her brilliant mental health/PTSD representation.. it was done super well and i definitely think its worth reading just solely based on that aspect. nevertheless, i do wanna say that this part of the overall book overrode the romance itself.. not that the rep isn’t important but i felt like there was a definite imbalance that made me not engage with the story at all ya know? i feel like i’ve read other books where it was executed more harmoniously and interwoven with the romance better.

i also really really wanted to see Jude being there for Indira and the struggles she was going thru as well.. i understand the therapy was there and it’s not healthy to put ur shit onto ur partner but at the same time, just like Indira was able to be someone to lean on for Jude, i really wanted to see the vice versa happening.. she also has a lot of trauma and vulnerability about not being enough/deserving of love and it just wasn’t addressed the way i wish it was :/

disappointed overall but what can ya do? i will definitely nOT stop reading from this author.. just think this one missed the mark for me (which is okay bc i see TONS of ppl loving it and getting SO MUCH meaning and relatability out of it which is incredibly powerful and wonderful to see!!).

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thanks to the publisher St. Martin’s Griffin for the e-ARC via Netgalley. Releases April 4, 2023!

I really enjoyed this book. Indira and Jude are probably my favorite out of all the couples that Mazey has written. I think Mazey really touched the issues people with PTSD face really well. It definitely hit home for me and I loved how she portrayed the mental health issues a lot of people face daily that they are afraid to work on or share with others. I think she really did the mental health issues justice in this book and I highly recommend reading. I am super happy I was able to read this book and enjoyed every aspect of it wholeheartedly.

I loved this book! It does an amazing job covering the difficult subject of trauma. Specifically PTSD. It is taken seriously and handled with care all while telling a great story.

I especially love the dynamic between Jude and Indira. The way she watches over him is one of the sweetest things I have ever read. Swoon!

The only thing that let this book down for me (a little bit) was the ending. Don’t get me wrong, I love the way it ends, just not necessarily how it’s told. Not a dealbreaker, and definitely doesn’t take away from whether or not I would recommend this book.

Cute read!!

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review or completely my own.

Mazey Eddings writing gets better with each book! These characters have to be my favorite in the series. Their relationship was so sweet and caring. I loved seeing them grow together and peel back the layers to their friendship and relationship. Their backstories were well developed and showed the reader a new perspective.

I absolutely loved the storytelling in this book. I can’t wait for the next one!

I've read all three of these books and really enjoyed this one. I love thatbthe author includes mental health representation in her books. I can't wait to read more from this author. Highly recommend!

Enemies to lovers, brother's best friends, and mental health representation? Sign me up!

The Plus One is a funny rom-com that centers around Indira and Jude, two opposites in every way. After a surprising break up with her boyfriend, Indira decides to crash at her brother's apartment, where none other than Jude is currently staying after coming back from his overseas work as a doctor. With the hateful banter between them, but also the brewing chemistry, who will be the first to crack?

The mental health representation in Jude suffering from PTSD was done very well. I liked how both characters were illustrated as strong even with what they were dealing with on the inside. Indira was a great opening for Jude to share his experiences with.

Trigger warning: this book deals with PTSD.

Thanks to NetGalley & St. Martin's Press for the ARC.

What a nice surprise this book was. I’d like to start by saying that I haven’t read the first 2 books as I didn’t know this was part of a series, but I enjoyed it so much that I will definitely read them in a near future. I loved Mazey Eddings’ writing style. 
 
Although this book deals with very heavy topics such as PTSD and depression, it’s far from heavy in itself. It’s written with great care and compassion. It is also really funny and I often laughed out loud through Indira and Jude’s journey. I cried with them, I laughed with them and felt every single butterfly. Their banter was amazing and made me my little heart happy. I highly recommend!
 
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