This YA debut of Ms. Eddings has me in a severe chokehold, and they’re to be blamed! Because this was really really cute and adorable. I had so much fun reading it!

I'm so pleased to have received an ARC for Mazey's new YA story about two neurodivergent teens falling in love! Thank you Wednesday Books and NetGalley!

I enjoyed the summer trip through Europe setting, the forced proximity of sharing a room, and the dual POV windows into one autistic brain and one with ADHD. I felt like we really got into both characters heads and learned how they experience the world well. I also really loved the moment where they finally realized that the one understands the other and vice versa. I also really liked the inclusion of color and visiting so many European locations vicariously through their travels.

Oh, and the meet disaster on the plane was amazing.

4.5 ⭐

This book was super cute. I love the concept and it was so sweet!

You will want to give these characters hugs! I cried, I swooned, I smiled -- it's just a really great book. Please keep in mind that the characters are neurodivergent - but that just makes the book even better. I love the representation!

Thank you, Publisher & Netgalley for the eARC! It was amazing!

📚 Tilly in Technicolor
✍ Mazey Eddings
📖 YA romance
⭐3.5/5
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➡ Tilly Twomley is unabashedly herself and for the first time in her life, she's also by herself...sort of. The summer following her high school graduation, she flies to Europe to intern for her successful sister Mona and her innovative nail-polish company as she, her business partner and one other intern travel from city to city to secure business deals. On the flight there, she has a disasterous encounter with her seatmate, Oliver, who turns out to be the company's other intern.

Despite the early hitch in their relationship, the two become friends and as they discover more about each other, begin to explore their shared neurodivergent characteristics while traveling. As friendship develops into something more, they'll have to decide what happens when the summer ends or if their relationships was just shades of the wrong color.

💭Through the story, each of of the MCs learns to lean into the other to celebrate and understand how the way they process the world shapes their experiences and positions them to impact others in a special way. Ultimately, the book is a tribute to advocating for what works for you because at the end of the day, you're the only one living your life.
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🙏 Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for the eARC of Tilly in Technicolor in exchange for an honest review.
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🎯 What I loved: Like all of Eddings' novels, there was tremendous representation and exploration of the MCs neurodivergent identities. Tilly has ADHD and Oliver is autistic. Through the story, each of of the MCs learns to lean into the other to celebrate and understand how the way they process the world shapes their experiences and positions them to impact others. Ultimately, the book is a tribute to advocating for what works for you because at the end of the day, you're the only one living your life. I loved Oliver and his ability to pinpoint any color by its Pantone name and number- he was such a sweet, charming, creative MMC.

🙅‍♀️ What I didn't: I struggled with Tilly as a character. While I loved her coming into her own narrative, I found some of the things she did cringey (e.g. her plane behavior) and had to take deep calming breaths every time (and there were a lot) she drew her own conclusions without letting people respond to her bold declarations. I was also a little surprised by the shared bed/shared room trope in a YA novel. I'm good with romance but felt like an older sister forcing her younger sister to share a room with a teenage boy as they gallivant across Europe was far-fetched.
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Read if you love:
* neurodivergence representation
* forced proximity/workplace(?) romance
* travel romances
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See also: Georgie, All Along; Anna and the French Kiss; Better than the Movies

Tilly in Technicolor is about an ADHD girl and an autistic boy who develop a relationship over a summer. This is a cute book. Tilly and Oliver were adorable and well described. I liked how this book was told in both their POVs. It was nice to see how both characters thought and how they saw each other. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy YA contemporary romance!


Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for the eArc in exchange for an honest review.

This book is more than just a swoon-worthy, sweet, and extra cute romance between two young lovers! Mary Eddings' informative, honest, and poignant approach to neurodiverse characters makes her books engaging, heartfelt, bold, and captivating.

Both Tilly and Oliver are amazing characters who you'll want to give millions of hugs to. They both have a hard time fitting into the norms society expects of them. Tilly is diagnosed with ADHD, which has caused heartbreak for her parents. They act extra protective around her, putting pressure on her to make realistic choices about her future, like her highly accomplished, Ivy League-graduated sister, Mona. Tilly is exhausted from being criticized, lectured, and pushed hard to adapt, compared to her sister. She needs her freedom to find out what she wants to do with her life and how she will shape her own future. She's vivid, energetic, colorful, smart, observant, original, creative, and enthusiastic.

The intern position at her sister's new startup nail polish company, Ruhe, provides Tilly with the opportunity to spend three months throughout Europe to work on the company's social media outlets as a hand model. It's part of her graduation and birthday gift, but there are a few catches, including the fact that her sister has no intention of going easy on her, and she has to make arranged calls to her parents, keeping them informed about each step she takes. At the end of the trip, she'll meet with her mother to decide which colleges she's going to apply to, even though she has no intention of going to college.

Tilly has no idea that her path will cross with Oliver Clark's, the same grumpy boy who was her seatmate throughout her flight to London. Oliver is a graphic designer and the other intern who is 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. This internship will help him to build up his resume and improve his photography and editing skills. He's autistic and perceives the world from a different spectrum, having a hard time interpreting social cues. When he finds out he has to spend three months with the girl who made his flight to London the most tormenting and disastrous experience of his life, he just wants to curse his luck. Unfortunately, that girl starts to awaken feelings he's never experienced before. When he sees her smile, he feels like his heart will explode out of his chest. Why does he feel like that? What is she doing to him?

And Tilly has the same complex feelings she cannot name. She feels drawn to this boy who seems like he cannot stand to share the same space with her. Could she be misunderstanding his reactions? What if her feelings are not unrequited for him?

I adored reading Tilly's blog parts. I enjoyed her brave, unique, intelligent, and emotional voice. She literally poured out her feelings into words, and it was impossible not to hear her inner screams telling the world that she's in pain and that she's lonely in the crowd.

The neurodiverse connection between the characters couldn't be written more realistically and adorably. The confrontation between the sisters was also one of my favorite scenes in the book.

Overall, this book is meaningful, powerful, inspirational, informative, and well-executed. I highly recommend it!

Many thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press/Wednesday Books for sharing this lovely book's digital review copy with me in exchange for my honest thoughts.

I laughed! I cried! I swooned! This book resonated with me so much! Having neurodivergent characters and reading about their everyday struggles, it made me feel a little less alone in this world. I cried seeing these characters find their way with one another. Tilly and Oliver were everything to me, I loved them so much! Best book I’ve read this year!




I received this arc from Netgalley for an honest review.

Tilly in Technicolor was the cutest, most fun reading ride I've been on in a while. Not only was it an adorable romance and coming of age story, it also dealt with huge topics surrounding neurodiversity and living in a world full of neurotypical people while knowing you're different. Tilly had ADHD and Oliver had autism. Understanding how their minds worked was a fun aspect of the story that I think will reach both people who are neurodiverse and help them feel seen and will also open the eyes of neurotypical individuals who maybe don't understand what it's like to have your thinking feel so different from the world around you. My own spouse has ADHD and I finished the book with a strong desire to understand them better and make changes in my own life to accommodate their ADHD. Overall, the book was incredibly inspiring while providing a raw and real look into neurodiversity.

But of course, we can't forget the love story aspect of the book either! Tilly and Oliver were adorable together and I couldn't get enough of them. They were so different and yet so determined to support each other. They also understood each other so well. The characters themselves felt so real and I was rooting for them the entire time. I also loved the relationship they formed. Tilly's conflict with her mom was great as well and it inspired me to hopefully be a better parent to my own kids.

Basically, the book was great and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a sweet YA romcom that makes a perfect spring or summer read!

Tilly in Technicolor is Mazey Eddings's sparkling YA debut about two neurodivergent teens who form a connection over the course of a summer. Tilly Twomley is desperate for change. After high school she was burnt out and she wants these changes, she needs them, but she doesn't know what exactly she needs and wants to change. And she will spend this summer with her sister in Europe. Oliver Clark knows exactly what he wants. His autism has often made it challenging for him to form relationships with others, but his obsession with color theory makes him absolutely unique. Until they meet and their lives are altered, everything was running according to plan. 
It was a well-written and enjoyable reading for me. I like the author's language and writing style. It was light and beautiful, and that book created this summer European travel atmosphere. Oliver and Tilly were comfortable characters, and their emotions, and feelings, and cute relationships were extremely relatable. I liked reading about how Tilly was changing during this summer. There were very big changes for her. Because of her ADHD, it was challenging and the decisions that she made to make her life better, I was so proud of her. My favorite part of this book was how colorful and vivid it was. It made me feel happy while reading it. There is something incredible about the way two people with such different views of the world find in each other the perfect complement to their own.

Tilly in Technicolor, by Mazey Eddings

This is an absolute read! I could have benefited from this story when I was growing up; I resonated with Tilly in so many ways. There is also a great deal of insight with this story, as it offers people an understanding of neurodiversity, and perhaps to have more compassion when it comes to these topics.

I felt that this book had everything; a cute, but not so cute meet, two perspectives throughout, a story of friends to lovers, grumpy sunshine vibes, family dynamics, forced proximity, self discovery, self love, travel adventures and the sweetest first time love trope.

Mazey beautifully crafts her characters, and it was amazing to read how Tilly and Oliver were patient and communicative with one another. They were eager to learn their differences, while discovering their likenesses and make it work, together. They were each other’s biggest supporters, and the perspective from both sides was a great way to be inside their heads and show it.

Ultimately the story of two neurodiverse humans finding each other and supporting each other, while navigating their own self discovery helps bring awareness to autism and ADHD; helping to further humanize, and inform the greater public, in a very positive way. I highly recommend reading the acknowledgements, and I believe her message throughout is important, and beautiful.

Thank you to Net Galley and Wednesday Books for the read. This book is going to do wonderful things! I loved it.

I have really enjoyed other books by Mazey Eddings, so I was excited to see she has a new one coming out! "Tilly in Technicolor" is a YA book centered around Tilly, a neurodivergent teen who is looking for adventure. She decides to spend the summer in Europe working for her sister's start up company. Along the way, she meets Oliver, who is also neurodivergent and will also be interning for Tilly's sister. They have a "meet cute" on the plane, but in my opinion, things go downhill from there.

I had a hard time relating to any of the characters in this book and couldn't find myself rooting for any of them, though I really wanted to. The romantic parts were a bit strange as well. I wanted to like this book, but I just didn't enjoy it like I wanted to. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

Tilly In Technicolor by Mazey Eddings (coming out August 15, 2023)

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This book made me feel seen. As someone who struggles with anxiety and works with children diagnosed with both autism and ADHD, this story has a way of making all difficulties valid. I love that communication was a major theme in this book, especially the difference in how people communicate with each other. The characters were real and the story is amazing.

Tilly and Oliver struggle to connect with others in their own different ways. When a summer internship pushes them together long-term, they have to figure out how to engage with each other while respecting the neurodiverse boundaries they both hold. Will they be able to overcome the challenges of their diagnoses in order to connect on a deeper level?

What a sweet and wholesome story! I thoroughly enjoyed this one and wound up bingeing it in 24 hours. After two previous attempts to read it—mood reading at its finest. -.- I related more to Tilly than I thought I would. I felt her highs and lowest of lows and there were times when I just wanted to slap her sister. Oliver was a precious bean. I adored this book!!

Simply put, I will always read anything Mazey Eddings writes. Her first YA book, Tilly in Technicolor is absolutely no exception to that rule. Eddings writes characters who wholeheartedly embrace their neurodivergence and are so unabashedly themselves (even in a world that wishes them otherwise), that you can’t help but fall in love with them a little. Eddings made it so easy to connect with them and the story, that I have a little hum of happiness while I read. Tilly in Technicolor is delightfully quirky, well executed, and just a fantastic way to spend a few hours lost in the story. The main characters had true chemistry and it was adorable to see it come to life. Their sometimes struggle to communicate was written so sensitively, as was their willingness to persevere. I know I’m gushing, but I simply cannot recommend this book enough! Easily five stars.

Special thanks to NetGalley for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.

This story truly was a whirlwind romance filled with sweet and funny moments I wish I could read for the first time again. It was filled with bursts of colors and comfortable silences, all woven together by a loving hand.

Starting off with our main character, Tilly Twomley was a force to be reckoned with. From the very first page, I could already tell I was going to enjoy this character. She was unapologetically herself, and I loved that she continued to be that even when she had many opposing forces wanting to mold her into their vision of what they deemed was acceptable. But Tilly lived her life authentically. If that looked different than the typical person, then so be it. To see her gain more confidence in herself as she traveled all over Europe and fell back in love with her writing was one of my favorite parts of this book.

Oliver Clark was a fascinating character alongside Tilly. I often couldn’t help thinking how adorable he was. He was so smart and so sincere. And the way he loved so fully was one of the best parts about his character in my opinion. I loved to see how he grew closer to Tilly during their internship, how he opened up to her. But more than that, it was just so fascinating to see how his character looked at the world through his love for color.

These made quite the pair, but I really enjoyed seeing them evolve during this little trip. From airplane mishaps to running through cities hand in hand, they were a lovely duo.

As for the actual plot, I must admit I find it a bit hazy. Thinking back on it, the story felt like it was focusing a lot more on the nail polish company and saving it from going under, so Tilly had to swoop in and save the day (after learning to fully accept herself and stand her ground, etc). And while I do believe this is a great part of the story, I think it got a little fuzzy with the main thing—acceptance and being authentically yourself. Personally, I think everything sort of meshed together until I wasn’t really sure what to deem the Main Thing.

Because everything sort of meshed together, the pacing was a bit weird to me. Most times it was too fast, breezing through weeks during this Europe trip. Then it’ll slow down so much, dedicating many chapters to a single city or moment between Tilly and Oliver. This also didn’t help with the world building. While I understand that they were gonna be going from city to city, because it often went by so quick, it was hard to grapple each setting enough before they were stationed somewhere else. It honestly felt like a really long montage.

This was a cute story, and one I will remember fondly. The characters truly shined. By the time I finished the book, I was hoping for more.

Oliver and Tilly are a perfect pair in this first YA debut by Mazey Eddings, who has become a favorite adult author of mine for her fleshed-out characters, representation of mental illness, health, and sensitivity of trauma, bustling dialogue, and phenomenal connections with side characters/found family. Her tenderness and care of these complex characters is so perfect, with their wit and wisdom, flaws and all, always being at the heart of her stories. I adored her previous characters, but this pairing of a summer between an autistic person and someone with ADHD was so well done, and the setting (a robust trip around Europe) was *chef's kiss*.

Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and of course Mazey Eddings herself, who deserves all good things. I love this book, and I'm soooooo glad I can pop it onto my classroom bookshelf when it comes out.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the opportunity to read this eArc in exchange for my honest review.

Oh, this book was wonderful! I'm not usually big on YA romance novels... But this one was just *Chef's Kiss* perfect. I'm a big fan of Mazey Eddings' writing and her use of taking mental health, neurodivergence and just everything that the world deems "Different" and making it... normal... Because who gets to say what's "normal" and what's "different"?

The characters in this story had depth and there was realness to them. I felt connected to Tilly and Oliver immediately and I wanted to shout at them from sidelines and cheer them on in life!

Oliver falls in love with Tilly before he even understands what is happening and OH MY GOD it's the BEST thing ever written.

The miscommunications between our two mains is absolutely adorable, the banter is witty and on-point and there is a great supporting cast as well.

This book is one I will be adding to my physical collection as soon as I can get my hands on it!

I read this book in a single day because I couldn’t put it down. I absolutely loved this book from beginning to end and could not get enough of the story and characters.

Tilly was utterly brilliant and I absolutely loved every little victory for her throughout. Watching her and Ollie through every ordeal or moment they shared just made me so happy. This book brought so many emotions forward, and I loved every bit of it.

The ending had me crying and I will forever recommend this book.

I’ve been a fan of Mazey Eddings since I read the first chapter of A Brush with Love. Not surprisingly, she nails (💅) this YA debut! Tilly leaps off the page, and Eddings’s use of color and Pantone is magical. The descriptions of people and scenery are so vivid that it is impossible not to fall in love with Tilly, Oliver and the places they travel. A+ handling of neurodiversity and creating characters with compassion.

Reviewed for NetGalley:

Tilly, living with ADHD, travels to the UK to work for the summer away at her sister's new startup company as in intern.

Enter meet cute, but not so cute, on the plane ride over with Oliver, living with Autism, who unbeknownst to them both, will be another intern at the same company.

Enjoyable to read and interesting to read on a neurodiverse couple of characters so easily facilitated into the work.