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.

Thank you to NetGalley for an e-ARC of this book!

Tilly in Technicolor put a smile on my face from page 1 and it didn't leave until the book was over. As an educator, I was thrilled to see such wonderful representation of neurodiversity in the two main characters, Tilly and Oliver. It truly helped me better understand some of my students and how they experience the world, and I will be a better, more empathetic teacher for having read this book. The story itself will resonate with older teens/recent graduates who are anxious about finding their place in the world. I loved this book so much and would recommend that teachers and librarians add it to their collections as soon as possible!

This was really sweet. I flew through it in a day and a half and enjoyed it. It's well written and Mazey's style of awkward and fumbling characters is very palpable. You can understand how they feel in the moment pretty clearly. It's similar to her previous 3 books, but not physically explicit and definitely YA.

Tilly is an 18 year old traveling Europe with her sister for the summer. She excited to get a break from her parents who treat and over-manage her differently due to her ADHD diagnosis. They're constantly putting her down without always realizing it. She's very unsure of herself as a result and flusters easily.

On her flight to Europe, she's extra nervous and makes a fool of herself in front of the cute guy flying next to her. Naturally, he's the other intern working for her sister that summer and they get to spend the next 3 months together. Oliver is Autistic and an expert in Pantone colors. He uses social media as a way to express himself without the in person blowback of feeling awkward talking to people.

The 2 fumble with communication for a month before they finally admit their diagnoses to each other, and it becomes a bonding experience and moment of clairty for them both. They understand how each other feels and processes differently. Granted that comes with it's own share of complications that arise with the climax of the book, but I liked how it played out. Tilly finding herself and writing all summer and it culminating to a career path by the end of it was nice to read, even if it did feel a little unbelievable for an 18 year old.

Tilly the brash American writer and Oliver the reserved British photographer have absolutely nothing in common, but they are stuck together for the next three months as they jet across Europe working as interns for Tilly’s sister. Her ADHD and his autism make clashes inevitable. Naturally, sparks fly. Tilly gets the lion’s share of the character development as she struggles to define herself outside her smothering mother’s influence, but both teens are passionate, creative, and completely adorable. A sweet summer romance that deals empathetically with neurodivergence, first love, and coming into one’s own.

Tilly just squeaked out of high school and is ready for a break. A summer traveling through Europe would be ideal, except for it's as an intern for her perfect older sister's company while being treated like the irresponsible screw up sister and fielding check-in calls from her mother, who is constantly pressuring her to pick a future and a college, which is the last thing Tilly wants. Plus there's the matter of Oliver, her sister's other intern who is handsome and talented and seems to want nothing to do with Tilly.

This book had me sobbing. As a late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult, Tilly's struggles with being treated like she's somehow broken by everyone around her hit me right in the heart. Similarly, Oliver's struggles with his autism and sensory needs felt so relatable. Their relationship, built on mutual understanding and appreciation, was so beautiful to watch unfold.

I feel like a lot will be made out of the romantic relationship in this novel, but what I really noticed and appreciated was Tilly's relationship with herself and her writing. As Tilly allows herself to be more authentic and vulnerable in a space where she feels safe, all of her relationships shift and grow until she manages to find a place for herself. What a beautiful vision of futures for us neurodivergent folks where we are allowed to be ourselves and play to our strengths.

This book was such a sweet YA story. Mazey’s writing style is so fluid and easy to read. While most of her books are adult contemporary, her writing works so well with YA.

Tillie and Oliver are such enchanting characters. They are absolute opposites, but they pair together so well. To me, they were chaos and order. I enjoyed that a lot, because I am also CHAOS.

I really appreciated all of the vulnerability in this story. The openness about being and feeling different is so refreshing to read.

This book was such a meet disaster- meets enemies to lovers- meets rom com fun.

Tilly in Technicolor is one of the sweetest young adult novels I have read in a long time. I have enjoyed Mazey Eddings contemporary romances in the past, but Tilly's story was delightfully charming.

I loved Tilly, especially her willingness to be vulnerable, her insatiable joy for life, and her ability to charm the pants off anyone, including the adorable Oliver. Tilly and Oliver are complete opposites; while she thrives in chaos he is all about order. Yet, they have more in common than meets the eye.

After a disastrous initial meeting on a flight to London, Tilly and Oliver are forced to work in close proximity after they find out they are both summer interns for Tilly's sister and her business partner. At first they bicker endlessly, but as they get to know each other they realize they share a lot of the same insecurities and struggles and soon a friendship blooms. Friendly feelings are not the only thing Tilly and Oliver feel toward each other and they cannot deny their attraction. However, they must overcome misunderstandings, personal insecurities, and overbearing adults to get their happy ending.

Tilly in Technicolor was such a delightful and surprisingly emotional read and I hope to see more young adult fiction from Mazey Eddings in the near future.

4.5 stars! My flavors of neurodivergent are more depression and anxiety than autism and ADHD, but I still found pieces of both Tilly and Oliver (and Mona, tbh) to relate to. Loved all their friends, and the conversations with Tilly’s mom hit very close to home.