Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press. I have to say this book showed me a few things by letting me know about a neurodivergent. I never knew much about it and this book taught me some things I really never knew. Hoping all info is as accurate as it should be this is a tool that can be used to explain what this is.

<b> Thank you to Mazey Eddings, St. Martins Press, and Netgalley for an advanced reader copy of this book. </b>

Tilly in Technicolor is a vibrant coming-of-age story that revolves around the unique experiences of two neurodivergent teens/young adults. This opposites attract, enemies to friends to lovers story highlights the importance of having a safe space to be one's authentic self as a foundation for building supportive, understanding, and lasting relationships and finding the strength to pursue one's interests/dreams. By juxtaposing the need for chaotic/always on-the-go stimulation, and heightened emotional displays of ADHD with the need for routine/structure and slower to-verbalize emotions that are often characteristic of autism, Mazey Eddings, paints a vibrant picture of what the neurodivergent experience can look like. The book is filled with poignant moments and important practical, social, and philosophical conversations about the nature of neurodivergence in a neurotypical world. <b>Overall I'd give this book a 3.75/5 (rounded up to 4/5) stars. </b> I felt like the book did a lot more tell-than-show, making parts of it feel preachy and the overall message a little heavy-handed, though no less impactful.

3.5 stars

There was a lot of good parts of this new adult book. I was really drawn in with Tilly's struggles and story, and then Oliver as well. There is great representation for ADHD, autism, and casual queer relationships. There were minor things that didn't really make sense but I wasn't too bothered (in no universe would an international luggage bag with SIX boxes of tampons would be carry on, it would have to be checked in come on). It really lost me at the end though. I was into the mutal pining, and the instalove switch three quarters of the way in was hard to take. I hated how everyone handled everything (PSA please never accept any job without a formal offer outlining things). The end was too neat, and required almost no communication because everyone magically "got" what they did wrong and wanted to change. If you're someone who these things wouldn't bother you I think the heart of the story is still great.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

A cute YA with great representation of two neurodiverse teens (Tilly has ADHD and Oliver has Autism). Tilly and Oliver were very sweet and I enjoyed seeing them form a connection through mutual understanding. I do wish the ending was more drawn out, as it felt a bit rushed.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings is the perfect love letter to neurodivergent teens entering adulthood. How Eddings can take her experiences and write about them in a way that helps people understand Autism and ADHD makes my heart happy. Having worked with teens who experience the world the way Tilly and Oliver in the novel do, I would recommend it to all YA readers to help them better understand their neurodivergent peers.

The romance between Tilly and Oliver is so charming and pure. I loved how incredibly authentic it felt. I wasn’t sure at first how someone with Autism would handle someone with ADHD, but as I followed them and watched how they learned about one another, I became convinced it was possible.

I also loved watching the two main characters, who narrate the story in alternating first-person chapters, make that transition into adulthood. It’s messy and uncertain, but Tilly, in particular, shows that she can figure it out and tackle challenges in her own way. I think it is so important to show these positive aspects. I love how utterly captivating the story and the characters are and how their story is told in such a refreshingly bold manner. It makes all the difference.

Tilly is ready for a change of scenery and a trip around Europe is exactly what she needs. Sure, working as an intern for her perfect sister’s start up isn’t ideal, but after struggling through high school thanks to her ADHD, she’s excited for the opportunity to move and explore. Too bad she and the other intern, Oliver immediately get off on the wrong foot. Because of his autism, Oliver has always had difficulty when it comes to people. As they spend more time together, a connection between them grows.

I loved everything about this book. Tilly and Oliver were incredible together and I loved how they balanced each other out and supported each other in so many ways. This was a beautiful neurodiverse love story with such incredible characters. I loved both Tilly and Oliver and honestly left this book wishing they were real people so I could be their friend. From start to finish the book captured my heart.

Thank you to Wednesday books for the gifted copy.

Mazey Eddings can honestly do NO wrong. I related so hard to this book, just like I do with ALL her books because she always makes me feel seen with my ADHD and anxiety. <3 highly recommend to anyone who is neurodivergent, loves anyone who is neurodivergent, or just loves books about young love!

tilly is excited to spend her summer in europe, especially since it means escaping most of the crushing pressure her mother, who acts like she’s more affected by tilly’s ADHD than tilly herself, places on her. she becomes less excited when she realizes she has to spend the summer with oliver, who tilly finds exasperating. however, the two get to know each other very well over the summer, especially when they realize they’re both neurodivergent.

first of all, this book was HILARIOUS. from the chapter titles to the dialogue to the inner thoughts (of both tilly AND oliver, because this is dual pov!!!), this book kept me smiling pretty much the whole time. this is not to say that there weren’t more serious moments, because there definitely were. as i mentioned earlier, tilly’s mom does not show the proper support for tilly and her ADHD at all. this was so sad to see, but i’m glad tilly stayed true to herself. she had such big feelings which i absolutely loved to see. being neurodivergent most definitely affects the way you experience and react to emotions, and i just felt so seen with how this was represented in tilly.

i loved how oliver had a special interest in colors. this is a pretty unique special interest in my experience, and i loved his passion for it. pretty early on in the book, he becomes fixated on a few of tilly’s freckles because he can’t figure out what exact shade they are. i loved this part so much!

i highly recommend this book to any YA romance fans, especially those looking for amazing neurodivergent (specifically ADHD with tilly and autism with oliver) representation.

This was such a heartwarming, sweet book in all the very best senses.

Tilly, our heroine, has been over-protected (stifled) by her mom all her life. Now out of high school, Tilly wants to experience the world before being overcommitted and micromanaged through college, when she isn't really certain what she wants to do...except write.

Her sister has always been held up to her as perfect, the role model Tilly ought to aspire to and consistently fails to achieve. Tilly gets a chance to get away, spending the summer as an intern at her sister's new startup nail polish company, Ruhe. Tilly serves as a hand model, but gradually gets more chances to work on the company's social media outlets as they travel through Europe.

Tilly has no idea that her path will cross with Oliver Clark's, a very grumpy grumpy boy she met on her flight to London. Oliver is a graphic designer and the other intern hired by Tilly's sister and partner. He's organized, focused, and has mapped out his future by being placed in a prestigious design program. He finds Tilly chaotic in the extreme, but gradually he sees that chaos in terms of colors, which is his way of engaging with the world.

This is the story of two creative, bright, neurodivergent teens on the cusp of adulthood. Eddings presents them believable, with sympathy and warmth and tons of humor. The romance might be a tad wish fulfillment, but I'm good with that. It just added to the overall magic of the story.

I really enjoyed it a lot.

A story that truly shines with a plethora of colors! This book is the journey of two neurodiverse teen interns, traveling Europe and discovering that the world can be a beautiful place with people who understand you.

Seeing ADHD from Tilly's POV when she writes her blog was so insightful for me on a personal level, and left me with a better understanding of what my niece deals with on a daily basis, so I'll forever be grateful to Mazey for that.

Oliver is so tender and sweet, you can't help but love him and the way he views the world in colors. He's a giant teddy bear that I just want to hug and keep in my pocket. A beautiful soul that anyone would be lucky to have as a best friend.

My heart is so full after reading this book and while it's marketed as YA, everyone should read it! The cover makes me smile every time I see it now, and I can't wait to read it again soon.

“[You] get the struggles of navigating a world not designed for you. Get the confusion and frustration and achy chest that comes with trying to connect with people but never getting it quite right, but saying it [forget] it and being yourself anyway.”

Tilly in Technicolor is a poignant, own voices YA romance featuring two neurodiverse characters who have to navigate a world that wasn’t designed for them.

Author Mazey Eddings deftly utilizes first person dual POV to help readers understand both Tilly and Oliver’s unique points-of-view. And Eddings also exquisitely captures that feeling of being an adolescent on the cusp of adulthood, with all of the angst and excitement that accompanies it.

All of the relationships in the novel are nicely structured, adding depth and breadth to the story. Much of the conflict in this novel is internal, but that doesn’t mean this book is quiet. Rather, it is colorful, exuberant, and full of life.

As a reader (and as a mother) I greatly appreciated how inclusive and diverse this book is. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and can’t wait to read more from this author!

Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

Mazey Eddings can do no wrong in my eyes. She's an autobuy author. This may be my favorite book she has written. Both Tilly and Ollie were so loveable. I didn't want the story to end. I cried. I laughed. I hurt. I went through all the emotions! Eddings does this incredible job of writing characters so relatable that I can't help but be seen.

This book was powerful and emotional taking great care with two neurodivergent characters.

I loved it so much, I already had to reread.

Five stars!

Realistic portrayal of neurodivergent characters. Loved the story progression, but thought it wrapped up too quickly.

Thanks to #NetGalley and the publisher for early access to this book in exchange for an honest review.

A cute story about a young girl with ADHD and the struggles she faces with work, her family, and relationships. She meets Ollie, a young guy with Autism, and they immediately don’t hit it off. Watching their story unfold was very cute, very YA. The ending didn’t work for me overall, and I found the storyline with Tilly’s mom to be painful and redundant at times.

Tilly in Technicolor is Mazey Eddings at her BEST; writing the sweetest of love stories between “neurodivine” protagonists. I just felt myself grinning the whole time I read this and I think 90% of it is because we get to see inside the mind of both Tilly and Oliver—how they feel, react, and interact with the world and each other. How could I not love both of these characters? Even though both of them feel unsure or inadequate with expressing themselves, they are the most authentic, realistic characters I’ve read in awhile.

Tilly and Oliver first meet on a transatlantic flight as seatmates where they get off to a rough start rubbing each other the wrong way just by being intrinsically themselves. What they are surprised to find is that they’ll have to see each other quite a bit more and work together as interns for Mona’s (Tilly’s sister’s) nail lacquer company once they reach London. Shared spaces and forced proximity are not new tropes for Eddings, but what makes this story so unique is that we have two neurodiverse voices—Tilly has ADHD and Oliver is autistic. I loved being inside both of their brains and felt like I could sympathize with their frustrations with expression, but also felt like I was learning how we as humans tend to throw labels on things we know very little about and box people out just because they are different from us. Tilly and Oliver show the world what it means to be joyous and how to love. For Tilly, it is a whole body feeling that almost vibrates through her and for Oliver it is how colors correlate to feelings and emotions as described through Pantone swatches. While reading I realized that every quote I highlighted in the book was from Oliver’s POV. He beautifully captures the essence of what he sees through his photography, his way with describing color, and Tilly becomes his muse without him even realizing it because she exudes color and laughter and light. I felt like I could relate to Oliver’s obsession with art and color (hello, former art teacher here!) and how color is a feeling, a moment, an expression. Once he sees Tilly in terms of color (and not as someone who grates on his nerves), Oliver actually SEES her, like no one else has seen her before.
This book is a love song to anyone who has ever felt misunderstood, struggled with expression, social cues or norms, and is enough just as they are. Everyone deserves a happily ever after and Eddings proves that there’s someone for everyone with Tilly and Oliver.
I received an advanced copy from the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

CWs: parental shaming, feelings of being misunderstood, socially singular, non-explicit sexual intercourse (older YA readers), feelings of inadequacy

Thank you Mazey Eddings, NetGalley, and Macmillan Publishers for providing me with the e-arc of Tilly in Technicolor! Mazey has been a must-read author since I read A Brush with Love, and Tilly and all of her friends absolutely did not disappoint.

Tilly in Technicolor is told in a dual POV (my absolute fav) split between Tilly and Oliver. Our two main characters first meet on their transatlantic flight from Ohio to London. After spilled ketchup, a near-miss vomit, and both Tilly and Oliver being over-stimulated on the flight, the two think they will never see each other again. But, as fate would have it, they end up spending the summer working for Tilly's older sister's startup and travel all over Europe together.
While Tilly has almost nothing in her life figured out, Oliver has his whole future planned. Tilly's ADHD makes it difficult for her to concentrate in school, thus leading her to not want to go to college despite her parents' wishes. Oliver's autism makes it difficult for him to stray from the comfortable routine and carefully laid out plans. They both think that the other can't possibly understand what they are going through, but the opposite turns out to be true: Oliver ends up being Tilly's biggest cheerleader and Tilly makes Oliver feel things he never thought was possible for him to feel.

I absolutely cannot get over how much I love books by Mazey Eddings and how she never fails to make me cry. At this point, I'll read her grocery list or old short stories she had to write for school. She is so careful with how she writes about neurodivergent characters, that it makes me fall in love with her stories even more. Although I do not have autism nor ADHD, I felt like I could understand how the characters felt during all of their highs and lows throughout the book and am able to relate to them the best that I can. Tilly in Technicolor is an amazing YA novel and I enjoyed it thoroughly (even without the amazing Mazey Eddings spice that shows in her adult novels).

Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings is her newest novel about two neurodivergent teens who form a connection over the course of a summer.
 
After already loving all her previous books I was super curious about this story, and it blew me away. This book just spoke to my soul and it’s so special.
 
Tilly just finished high school and she is not looking forward to fulfilling her parents’ expectations of going to college and instead she wants to find her own way. During the summer she goes to London to stay with her sister Mona, and she helps her sister with her new nail polish business. They travel all over Europe to capture moments and that creates a fantastic atmosphere. Tilly also has ADHD and that provided a different perspective, and I liked seeing this representation.
 
Oliver is autistic and he sees the world in colors. That gives you such a unique perspective and I liked learning about how he perceives his surroundings. And as someone who has a Pinterest board full of inspiring Pantone shades, I could relate a little bit to that. Oliver is just such a sweet and wholesome guy, and I absolutely loved him.
 
Their meet cute in an airplane is just iconic and they never expected to see each other again and that was the best start. During plenty of close proximity situations they get closer and that was just precious. The romance just feels real and honest, and I loved seeing Tilly and Oliver as a couple.
 
Overall, Tilly in Technicolor is a phenomenal read and I more than highly recommend this story and I’ve found a new favorite in it. 5 stars.
 
(ARC kindly provided in exchange for a review.)

Mazey Eddings is THE author to read and fall in love with. I've previously read one book from Mazey, thanks to publisher and Netgalley, and it was a blast. This is her YA debut, and it did not disappoint. She crafts compelling characters that feel like real people with real problems.

Read this if you want to read about the following:
*Neurodivergent MC and love interest (ADHD and autism rep)
*Interning abroad
*Finding yourself
*Found family


Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the eARC of this book!

Tilly's brain never seems to be able to quiet down which not only causes her problems in school, but problems with her parents as well. When Tilly's sister offers her an internship and all expenses paid trip to Europe for the summer, she quickly jumps at the opportunity.
Olive has autism and loves reading people and the world's "color". He has an eye for photography and is hired by Tilly's sister for a summer internship.
Their two worlds soon cross. Will they be able to make it past their first terrible meeting on a plane or will they be able to get past it and get along? Maybe even fall in love?

I LOVED this YA read! I love to see neurodiverse characters in a story. I loved Tilly and Oliver!

This book was an absolute gem! Tilly and Oliver, both neurodivergent young adults, are fantastic main characters. I loved seeing the world from their perspectives and seeing how they not only navigate the world, but their relationship with each other, as well. I found them both to be endearing characters that experienced growth over the course of the book.

Also, this is my first read from Mazey Eddings, and I found myself texting a friend to see if she'd ever read her books and if they are all laugh-out-loud funny. This book had me laughing...a lot. What could've been an eye-rolling, over-the-top scene on the airplane at the beginning of the book instead had me rolling with laughter.

I love that this book tackled big issues, but also felt like a warm hug. I loved every second of reading it and found myself really eager to pick it up each time I had an opportunity to do so. I really enjoyed Oliver's fascination with color and the way he described things by their Pantone colors. There were also tons of beautifully romantic lines throughout that I found myself highlighting.

This book also had strong supporting characters, and the plot and pacing were so strong that there was not a single part of the story line that bored me. I was interested in it all.

I don't want to say too much more as I feel I'd be giving parts of the plot away, but just know this is an absolute gem of a book and was so enjoyable to read. Now I'm off to go devour Mazey Eddings' backlist!

Thank you to St. Martin's Press/Wednesday Books and NetGalley for the arc in exchange for my honest review.