4.5 stars rounded up. It took me a bit to warm to this book, probably because I am much more of an Oliver than a Tilly, and reacted to her accordingly. But I absolutely loved Oliver’s chapters in the book, and the way he had of looking at and describing the world, and the struggles he faced in moving through it. And seeing Tilly grow and find herself in her writing was a joy, as was watching their relationship develop.

There were a couple of “Tilly causes chaos” scenes that required me to suspend disbelief a bit too much, not because they seemed out of character, but because the scenarios themselves seemed to be a bit impossible or glossed over.

But overall I would one hundred percent recommend this book!

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for producing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I absolutely love Mazey's writing.❤️❤️

Thank you so much netgalley, the author and the publisher for the advanced review copy if this book💗
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Thank you to the publisher for the eARC. All opinions expressed are my own. This post contains minor spoilers.

This is my fourth book by Mazey Eddings and it's once again 5 stars. Every time I read a Mazey Eddings book, I worry it won't be as good as the previous release. And every time she writes a book that's somehow even better than her previous book. Tilly in Technicolor is no exception.

Tilly is Eddings's first foray into YA and I was simply blown away. It follows Tilly, a girl spending the summer with her sister in Europe, trying to prove to her family she's more than her ADHD. Along the way, Tilly meets Oliver. He's the exact opposite of Tilly in that she's all sunshine and rainbows and he's...not. The two slowly form a friendship before it turns into something more.

This romance was everything and more. I absolutely loved how Tilly and Oliver helped each other work through their personal lives. They were so supportive of one another. One of my favorite scenes is actually after they break up but then they talk through their issues and everything is resolved. It's such a healthy relationship and I am simply obsessed.

All of the characters are beautiful. Obviously, I love our main characters, but the side characters deserve some praise as well. Mazey Eddings has this extraordinary ability to craft characters so real you feel as though you could stalk them on Instagram. I found myself falling in love with all of the characters, from Tilly's 'perfect' older sister to Oliver's sister's bandmates.

The plot is ridiculously amazing as always. Eddings always has perfect timing in her narrative in addition to her out of this world writing style. Everything makes sense and god I love her so much. The same goes for the subplots. I love them all.

There are simply not enough words to describe my feelings about this book. If there are enough words, I am not eloquent enough to use them properly. All I can say is that I love Mazey Eddings, I love Tilly in Technicolor, and everyone needs to read this book immediately. I'd give it 6 stars if Goodreads went up that high.

Tilly in Technicolor is a charming story about two neurodivergent young adults, who find true love together for the first time in their lives.
Tilly, who has ADHD, and Oliver, who is autistic, meet on an airplane and their first encounter goes from bad to worse, in a hilarious string of events. Shortly after, Tilly and Oliver discover that they will also be spending the summer together as they are both interns for her sister's start-up company. On their journey, Tilly and Oliver discover the beauty of having someone else who truly sees them fully, and loves them for their differences.
Tilly in Technicolor is not only sweet, but laugh out loud funny, and informative too.
I really loved this book!
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an early release copy of this book.
Tilly in Technicolor releases August 15th 2023-go check it out!

The cover was the best part unfortunately. The writing didn’t click with me and I found the storyline uninteresting. Tilly didn’t strike me as a compelling main character and the whole first introduction to the love interest was..odd. Probably because of the writing, I never felt invested or connected to the characters. I wanted to enjoy it, the representation was a great thing but the execution of the story wasn’t.

Oh my god I loved this!! Tilly and Ollie and so sweet and I just want to hug them both so tight. Mazey Eddings writes it, I will love it.

Mazey Eddings is a master at creating rich, real, flawed but lovable characters. Tilly has ADHD. This is something about her that creates tension in her relationships and well meaning chaos wherever she goes. Oliver has autism. He sees the world through an extreme interest in color theory. It's fun to watch these two lovely characters grow to understand, appreciate, and love each other. Eddings does an excellent job of showing how neirodiversity can be frustrating but also rather like a super power. Her characters are fresh, and she's a must read author for me.

Honest, funny, and bright as the sun, Tilly in Technicolor is a colorful breath of fresh air in world that often feels made up of only shades of gray. Four and a half stars!

*I received an advanced reader copy of this book from NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I love, love, LOVED, this book. As someone who is both on the spectrum and has ADHD I felt as though this book was a great representation of both things. Oftentimes I find that books will characterize neurodivergence as a set structure, but this book really showed that there is more to neurodivergence that meets the eye. Speaking of neurodivergent representation in this book, I absolutely loved Tilly. I felt like I could connect with her on an extreme level and I loved that. One thing I really liked was that this book touched on what family expectations are when dealing with neurodivergence. Which is something I feel as though I don’t see a lot of. Overall, I cannot wait to add this to our library as I hope that kids can connect with this book just as much as I did!

Good lord, this book was delightful! I absolutely loved both Tilly and Oliver so much as individuals and later as a couple. The neurodivergent portrayals (ADHD and autism) were honestly top notch, probably the better ones I’ve seen lately in a book. The way Tilly’s ADHD was described in how her brain works and also how she feels like a burden or a problem to her family because of it was beautifully written. I loved her journey and growth in her relationships with both her sister and her mother. And I loved Ollie’s conversation with his sister about how people communicate in different ways and how to find their communication style and also tell them yours. The romance was super cute, such a great progression of an enemies to friends to lovers trope. I loved that not only were the chapters short, but they had titles and really great ones at that. My only complaint was that the ending was a bit abrupt and everything wrapped up in one short chapter. I would have liked a little more. Honestly though, this book was just lovely and I think a lot of readers are going to love it!

You know that feeling when you finish a book and you just want to give it a hug? Well, let me introduce you to Tilly In Technicolor by @mazeyeddings .

Reason’s I loved it 🥰:
•Tilly and Oliver both have my heart. They made me laugh, they made me smile and also made me feel for them and everything they go through.

•I loved Oliver’s friends. #friendshipgoals

•I loved the diversity and acceptance and neurodiversity representation. I love that it’s getting easier for everyone to find themselves in mainstream literature. Books like this one are so important because representation matters. Make sure to read the author’s note at the end of the book!!

•The story is YA as the main characters have just finished highschool but it didn’t feel too young and was still so Swoony 🥰.

I’ve read all Mazey Eddings books and I have yet to find one I didn’t like! Make sure to grab your copy of Tilly In Technicolor August 15th!

4.5 rounded up 💫🥹

SHE’S DONE IT AGAIN 🫶👏 after LOVING her Brush With Love series I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Mazey’s YA debut + y’allllllll 😩😩

What starts as the most disastrous introduction (the exact OPPOSITE of a meet cute) turns into an epic European summer of neurodivergent LOVE for Tilly + Ollie 🫶

✨ADHD/autism own voices
✨imposter syndrome
✨sisterhood
✨super queer
✨laugh out loud moments
✨approximately 9182 quotable lines
✨so much COLOR theory

The most perfect YA book for those who have a hard time fitting in, who want to break apart from society’s norms, and the sweetest love story 💛

As a fellow neurodivergent, I related so much to this book. I was laughing out loud and bawling for being seen, being heard and being understood. Seeing words describe how you feel is an amazing feeling.

Mazey Eddings has just solidified her status as an auto buy author. I recommend everyone read this book especially my neurospicy peeps.

Thank you to the Netgalley and the publisher, St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books, for the opportunity to read this advanced reader copy. This honest review was based off my experience reading this eARC, which in no way biased me. All opinions are my own.

I am a big fan of Mazey’s A Brush for Love and The Plus One, so when I saw she was writing something new I was very excited to read it. I will say I did hesitate requesting this ARC because I am at a minimum probably close to 10 years older than Tilly and Oliver. I should not be frustrated when teen MCs act like teens (or younger to be honest), which is why I am very picky when it comes to the YA books I choose to read, but I figured I enjoyed Mazey’s other books so I requested on. Unfortunately this fell flat on many fronts for me.

Let’s start off with a couple of things I enjoyed, the neurodiversity representation; Tilly’s ADHD, and Oliver’s autism.

Here are some of the things I believe might have needed a bit more work:
- this falls into the syndrome of telling the reader rather than showing. While I enjoyed the inclusion of the neurodiversity representation, it felt more like Tilly and Oliver were telling me about their ADHD and autism rather than showing it.
- Tilly’s parents while only being in very few scenes were literally the worst. They infantilize Tilly, and insult her, and reduce her down to her ADHD. Her mother especially.
- Mona also unfortunately does this as well, but there’s a moment where it’s like a switch is flipped and all of a sudden they have a heart to heart?
- The pacing for this story was all over the place, Tilly and Oliver go from being strangers who disliked each other, to reluctant co interns, to even more reluctant friends, to lovers. The reluctant friends to lovers felt like it took a chapter. And then the there was no “falling in love” they were just already there? The romance felt robotic and forced.
- While I get that Tilly has a knack for writing, and fiction books don’t have to be realistic, but they do have to be believable, her successfully landing a writing position in Paris is just not believable.
- I find it very difficult to believe both Tilly and Oliver are the same age, while I believe the childish nature of Tilly is because of her parents/family infantilizing her and basically forcing her to become how they treat her.
- The whole nail polish company plot line felt very out of place honestly?
- There were so many side characters and side plots that at least took my attention away from the main story at hand.

Overall this book just wasn’t my jam. I will continue to read more of Mazey’s work, but this was just a miss for me.

Everyone needs this book - because it’s almost guaranteed you either are neurodiverse or love someone who is! Mazey perfectly portrays that all main characters deserve a HEA, and it’s not limited to perfect-looking neurotypicals. Gorgeous depictions of young love, and the unique but emotionally aware ways the MMCs learn to love together. Fade to black, as expected in a YA. Mazey is an auto-buy for me forever <3

Super cute while touching on some beautiful topics. I liked this book but thought I would love it. Can’t deny though how great it would be for others.

(4.5 stars)

When I started this book, I was immediately drawn in. Tilly is hilarious! The entire first 30% of the book was so funny, but then after that it got more emotional. I wish Tilly did funny things throughout the entire book. (My sister has ADHD and she does funny things constantly, haha.)

I love how the teens are very aware of their mental health issues, but the story did seem to focus on Tilly and her ADHD and I would have loved it to focus on Oliver and his ASD more. A lot of things were explained about ADHD, but not much was explained about ASD and the literal thought process there. I did think both characters were EXTREMLEY well done and well written. They each had their own voice and personality. If I didn't know better I would have thought the chapters of each character was written by a different person - that's always a good thing with a dual POV!

I learned quite a bit reading this book, and I think people could learn so much about neurodiversity just by reading it! Everyone in my family is neurodiverse in one way or another, but even with all the knowledge I already had, I still learned some things. I learned that people with ADHD mask! I thought only people on the autism spectrum (especially females) did that! I also never realized how people with autism and people with ADHD have similar issues!

There were a few things I wasn't completely sold on:
- I don't know anyone with ASD who would be comfortable travelling to a new city every few days, but everyone's different, so who knows.
- It briefly mentions that Tilly is on medication, but it doesn't seem like the medication actually does anything for her. My sister is a very different person when she's on her meds or not. On her meds she's serious, focused, no sense of humour, and off her meds... the complete opposite. A little bit more around that in the story would have been nice.
- I'm not sure I really understood why Oliver's family went to family therapy together for years? People don't go to family therapy just because one member was diagnosed with ASD.
- At 93% Mona and Amina just vanished completely. Where did they go?!

Chapter titles! Yes!! I love chapter titles, and the ones in this book were perfect and entertaining!

The cover: I love the colour, but that 'scene' never actually happened in the book, and it always bothers me when the cover doesn't match the actual story. Also I didn't figure out that the thing Tilly was holding was a camera, and Oliver was holding the camera strap, until 23% (in my defense, I only saw the cover photo on the screen of my phone, so it was a bit small.)

I pre-ordered a physical copy of this book and Mazey Eddings's other books before I even finished reading the eARC! It is so hard to find books I can relate to, with neurodiverse characters! (Characters like Molly from Nita Prose's "The Maid", or Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, or Strange Sally Diamond, are examples that immediately come to mind.)

In summary, this book was absolutely fantastic, I just wish that it held the high level of humour throughout the entire book rather than just in the first 30%.

Keep an eye out for this one! It's released August 15th, 2023!

i loved this book and i thought the adhd and autistic rep were amazing! would definitely recommend to others!

This book had me hooked right from the beginning! Mazey Eddings does such a good job adding humor from real life situations into her writing. I was immediately invested in Tilly and Oliver. I loved that this was dual POV so we could get inside both of their heads and understand what they were both thinking and feeling.
The neurodiverse rep was so well written. I loved the explanations of how Tilly and Oliver were feeling or what they were thinking in certain situations.
A great YA from Mazey Eddings!! (Also in love with the cover art!!!)

I love the neurodivergent characters! I related a lot to both main characters. I also loved the relationship between the sisters - it was so real! I recommend this for everyone - adults & teens, neurotypical * neurodivergent.

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.