What a joy. I could feel Tilly’s emotions and Oliver’s verbal frustrations on every page. It’s so beautifully written, and filled with a cast of characters who should each have their own book. This story resonated with me as an adult, and I think could be really important to YA readers a good twenty years younger than me.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher.

I was thrilled to read an advance copy of Tilly In Technicolor. Mazey Eddings is a must read author. My favorite new author in years! Tilly and Oliver stole my heart. Tilly is a young adult trying to accept herself in a world where herself does not always feel accepted making it that much harder for her to navigate her ADHD. She goes abroad to spend the summer with her sister and business partner to try and learn something and the pressure coming from her mom to do everything correctly and be successful has hindered Tillys relationships with her family. Oliver a shy young man with Autism likes to stay in his circle of friends who understand his ways of communicating. However, he will be branching out and interning with Tillys sister. You follow these two neuro-diverse young adults and how they communicate differently and see things differently. Following their journey to self acceptance and love is truly the most touching story I’ve ever read. You root for them and open your eyes to their world view. This is a must read for all ages! Thank you Mazey for yet another life changing book! Please always be perfectly you!

Cute YA read!

The Details: Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings
YA | neurodivergent representation | European vacation

Quick Summary: Two neurodivergent teens, Tilly and Oliver meet on plane in kind of a disastrous way and then just so happen to be spending the summer together traveling through Europe and interning with Tilly's older sister. They have a hard time connecting at first then find they have more in common than they thought.

My Take: I really really liked the representation here and thought it was so well done and so well explained. Tilly was very sweet, though I had a hard time getting a read on her at the start. Oliver was wonderful, and I loved watching his development alongside Tilly. The storyline was unique - though a little unbelievable at times - and flowed pretty well. I definitely had some issues with a few things - mainly how Mona and the parents treat Tilly (I'm sure that happens in real life, but it seemed over the top) and then their complete 180 degree change (again, it happens and I'm glad it did, but it was quick and a bit heavy-handed). Overall a cute and easy read.

Rating: 3 stars

If anyone could get me to fall back in love with YA with just one book it would be Mazey and sue did. This is summer in book form and the whole thing reads like a magical coming of age movie you watch a hundred times just because it makes you smile. Tilly and Ollie are magnificent neurodiverse bundles of joy and I'm obsessed with them forever now. The entire cast of characters is so fun and wonderful and I'm already excited for Cubby's story next!

Love it! So good! Perfect coming of age story. I loved the traveling through Europe aspect and I thought the blogging piece was also beautifully written. If anyone wants a story that makes them feel scene even if they view the world differently or are not "normal" by societiest standards this is the book.

Thank you NetGalley and SMP for the free ALC in exchange for honest review. I ABSOLUTELY loved this YA book by the incredible Mazey Eddings i loved how genuine and honest the characters felt. I also sensed some easter eggs from our super talented author (travelling, mention of teeth/dentist. I will be pre-ordering this beautiful book and cannot wait to hug them. I like we got a glance at her sister and their morphing relationship.

Highly recommend.

Let me start off by saying that I love Mazey Eddings writing. She has a way of connecting you to her characters and has you feeling everything.

This was Mazey’s YA debut and it was a super cute read. I loved the neurodiverse representation in the main characters, Tilly (ADHD) and Oliver (Autism). I loved their connection and seeing their relationship grow. And oh my gosh, their first meeting on the plane was everything! 😍😆

My only real complaint is that the ending felt really rushed. There was a lot of conflicts throughout the story that all pretty much get resolved in the last chapter…. And no epilogue 🥺. I would have loved even a quick chapter to see how Oliver and Tilly are after starting a new job and college. (But that’s just me).

Overall, it was a really cute read.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the free eArc in exchange for my honest review.

I am already a huge Mazey Eddings fan, having read and loved all three of her adult romances, but as someone who runs a YA book club, I cannot tell you how thrilled I was to hear she was stepping into the world of YA! For a YA debut, I think Eddings absolutely nailed it. I was super impressed with how this book maintained the distinct things I've come to expect and love from Mazey's previous novels, while shifting into being a book for a YA audience and about a teen protagonist. Once again, Mazey did an excellent job with the neurodiverse representation and I really enjoyed how neither Tilly's ADHD or Ollie's autism felt like some feature they could toss off or on like a coat when it suited the plot, but was instead baked into every aspect of who they were as characters. I can't wait to see what else Mazey writes in the YA space in the future!

Ok….hear me out!

I loved a lot of aspects about this book:

- I gained a deeper appreciation and knowledge of autism and ADHD!
- the book showed the stuggles AND the joy
- Oliver is just wonderful and must be protected at all costs

Here’s where I got lost:

There is A LOT of side stuff that the author threw in. So many side characters, and a lot of random tangents. NOW any author has the right to put their passions in a story and it won’t be for everyone. It will be for some.

For me personally, I felt like those side plot lines took away from the romance. It pulled me out of the story everytime and disconnected me to the romance. The result was that I missed the MCs connection, passion, and chemistry. Even the intimate scene felt stilted and well…not intimate. Like reading a textbook.

I think this book should have been classified and fiction and not romance.

Mazey Eddings has become one of my favorite authors this year. I absolutely loved this book! I will be thinking about Tilly and Ollie and everything they taught me about neurodiversity for the rest of my life.

My 3 year old son is ND. He is a Gestalt Language Processesor, which means he first learned how to copy full sentences and phrases instead of single words. He's also on a (2 year!) waitlist to be evaluated for autism. As his mom, I will be doing everything in my power to make sure he's happy and not pushing him to be "normal". Bring on the stims!!!

Preorder this book if you love YA romance that makes you laugh out loud with some amazing mental health representation. Or even if you like closed door adult romance. The main characters are just out of high school.

Thank you, thank you, thank you @mazeyeddings for putting this book out into the world. And thank you @ and @ for giving me the chance to read it early. I have preordered it so I can have this gorgeous book on my shelf forever.

Tilly in Technicolor
by Mazey Eddings
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Pub Date 15 Aug 2023
St. Martin's Press, Wednesday Books
Teens & YA
#netgalley


“Tilly Twomley is desperate for change. White-knuckling her way through high school with flawed executive functioning has left her burnt out and ready to start fresh. Oliver Clark knows exactly what he wants. His autism has often made it hard for him to form relationships with others, but his love of color theory and design allows him to feel deeply connected to the world around him.”

Parents, grab your tissues! Mazey Eddings has written a much-needed story of neurodiverse teens and their unique experiences and challenges. MORE IMPORTANTLY, this book celebrates the incredible abilities and perspectives of those navigating their own neurodivergent journey. It reminds us all of their innate strengths, creativity and love.

"Tilly in Technicolor" includes the vast range of neurodiversity is a remarkable and enlightening book. My experience with this book will help me be a more patient and understanding parent and -though it is a young adult book, I recommend it to all ages.

Thank You to Netgalley for this eARC!
Starting off with the good ( that heavily outweighs the bad), I really enjoyed both Tilly and Oliver’s characters. I was interested in the lives of both characters individually and their potential future together. The pacing was good for the majority of the book, more on that later, and the plot flowed nicely. I found myself smiling at Oliver and Tilly’s awkwardly cute moments.
While I don’t have many negative things to say about this book, the one thing that frustrated me was the resolution or lack of. It felt as though the big conflict between the two characters happened and then was quickly resolved a chapter later. It made the ending feel very rushed. Aside from that, I had a very fun time reading. You can never go wrong with a Mazey Eddings book! 4 stars⭐️

Loved Tilly and Oliver! Such a sweet love story between two neurodivergent newly coming of age adults. Both Oliver and Tilly felt so real, their worries and struggles immensely vivid. Mazey has done a wonderful job with all of her books to date and this one is a great foray into YA.

Tilly in Technicolor is an absolutely beautiful YA debut for Mazey. It is a sweet, inspiring story about coming of age, embracing your differences, and falling in love.

Tilly and Ollie have a disastrous meet cute on a plane ride to London. Soon they find out they will be spending the whole summer as interns together, travelling around Europe with Tilly's sister and her business partner.

Tilly is diagnosed with ADHD, she is tired of trying to fit into society she just wants to be herself and do what she wants to do, be a writer. Tilly finds herself in her writing, where she is able to get her emotions and frustrations out.

"My brain isn't broken. I don't need a cure. I just need compassion." (ARC quote)

Ollie is autistic, he is used to keeping everything in order and living on a schedule. This trip around Europe has messed with his schedule, and sharing rooms with Tilly has definitely made things unfamiliar for him.

Ollie and Tilly begin to start experiencing feelings that they are unsure of just how to communicate to the other and unsure of what exactly they are. I loved that once they began their relationship, they still had to learn how to communicate with each other, since both their neurodivergences are different they don't always communicate the same way.

Mazey does an excellent job portraying the sensory overloads, the meltdowns, the miscommunications, the outbursts, all the things that can be overlooked or can be seen as acting out to someone not familiar with a neurodivergent diagnosis. As a mom of a child with an ADHD diagnosis, that is amazingly similar to Tilly, this book was a perfect representation of her diagnosis.

I will 100% recommend this book to anyone, it was amazing!

Thank you so much to Mazey Eddings, NetGalley, and St Martin's Press for providing an ARC of this book!!

3.5 stars rounded up.

I went into this with low expectations because some of the author’s previous works haven’t been my thing, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much the author had grown in her writing. There was a lot I really enjoyed about this book—but I will say I ultimately don’t think Mazey Eddings’ books are my cup of tea. So take what I’m about to say with a grain of salt.

I have ADHD and suspected autism as well, and there was so much from Tilly and Oliver that I really loved. I felt like both characters were written with so much depth and heart; you can tell that Mazey Eddings put so much of herself into this books. The characters were relatable and well-written.

I was left wanting more with the romance—especially in the first 50% of the book. I think this ultimately is because Mazey Eddings tends to dramatize what’s happening to her characters. Both the scenes and the characters’ reactions felt overdramatic to me at times (especially almost everything that happened in the airport/on the airplane) and I found it hard to suspend my disbelief while reading. The last half read much better than the first half, although I struggled with the “third act breakup” too.

I also want to mention: this is a book that is definitely for able-bodied education. When I as a disabled individual read books that center disability, I want to escape the ableist world around me. This isn’t one of those books, because the ableism the characters experience is front and center on nearly every page. And there’s nothing wrong with that… but I do want to mention it for any other disabled readers who might be looking for a disabled book without any ableism. Note: This did not affect my rating.

Overall, if you’re looking for a book with lovable neurodivergent characters (especially if you’re able-bodied and want to unlearn some ableism), I do recommend this one!

*Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC. All views reflected are my own.

First, I am so thankful for the opportunity to review this.

The representation in this book is so great and important.

Unfortunately it was just a little *too* YA for me. But I can definitely see why people are loving it so much!

This was such a cute story! I most of all loved that the main characters were both neurodivergent. I thoroughly enjoyed the ADHD and Autism representation.
Tilly and Oliver were a treat to follow in their journey of self-growth and finding solace in each other. They understood and encouraged each other to be unapologetically themselves and pursue their passions. I loved how they learned to communicate their needs to each other. However, I would’ve liked Tilly and Oliver’s relationship to be a bit more gradual as I felt certain points were too fast-paced or late to include in the story. I also wasn’t as invested in the other characters as I felt they lacked a certain depth.

Thank you NetGalley, St.Martins press & Wednesday for the arc.

wow wow wow I loved this so so much! I finished it in a day and half and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I never wanted it to end. I truelove Tilly and the story line.

Tilly and Oliver meet over the summer and begin to fall for each other. It is written through two POVs and is a quick, light read featuring neurodivergent teens.
A classic case of a good story let down by a bad ending...
It was a cute story overall.

Tilly in Technicolor

I was so excited to read this book by a neurodiverse author about neurodiverse teens falling in love and Mazey Eddings did not disappoint. Tilly’s ADHD is a foundational part of who she is and reading about how she processes the world made so much sense to me. I know people with ADHD and this book really opened my eyes to some of the major challenges that neurodiverse people face every day. I think everyone can relate to some of the struggles that Tilly has: parents with high expectations, a perfect sister she feels like she has to live up to, difficulty reading people, keeping friends, feeling worthy. Who can’t see themselves in at least one of those issues?

Oliver too is extremely relatable. He’s dedicated and single-minded, but ultimately willing to do the work. Getting to read the journey that these two take one summer in Europe as they intern together for Tilly’s sister’s company was beautiful. I did have to push myself through the first two chapters or so, but once they started to settle into their jobs I really couldn’t put the book down. The writing was tight, colourful, and highly emotional. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is neurodiverse themselves, is a teen struggling with future expectations, anyone who remembers what it felt like to be a teenager, or anyone trying to find themselves and their purpose in life.

I received a free e-ARC from St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion on this book and thank them so much.

TLDR; this book is great! Read it!