The Plus One
RATING: 5 Stars (★★★★★)
SPICE LEVEL: 4 Spicy Peppers (🌶 🌶 🌶🌶)
DISCLOSURE: I received a free e-arc & finalized copy from St.Martins Press
Author: Mazey Eddings
Publisher: St.Martins Press
Is it on KU?: Nope
TW: PTSD (Veteran Medic) & Depression
Tropes:
↠ Childhood Nemesis
↠ Fake Dating
↠ Wedding Adjacent
I adored this story and series from start to finish. It was yet another five-star book by the incredible Mazey Eddings. Each story tackles mental health in an honest way that is so rare to find represented. Mazey is truly a gift to the romance genre. I look forward to reading her books for many years.
While these books work as standalone, meeting the whole friend group in the other books is rewarding. I remember reading A Brush With Love (Mazey’s debut and the first book in this series) in late 2021, and I just knew it would be a hit. What shocked me was how Lizzie Blake and The Plus One beat A Brush With Love for me. Lizzie Blake has the surprise baby trope I never thought I’d enjoy. While I won’t be reaching for more surprise baby books, this tangent highlights Mazey’s talent. She can write about many experiences and use a bunch of tropes effectively.
What starts out as a fake wedding date turns into something these childhood enemies never expected in the next sparkling romantic comedy by Mazey Eddings.
Some facts are indisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exits. Indira doesn’t like Jude. Jude doesn’t like Indira. But what happens when these childhood enemies find the only thing they can rely on is each other?
On paper, Indira has everything together. An amazing job, a boyfriend, and a car. What more could a late twenty-something ask for? But when she walks in on her boyfriend in an amorous embrace with a stranger, that perfect on paper image goes up in flames.
Jude has nothing together. A doctor that’s spent the last three years traveling the world to treat emergencies and humanitarian crises, a quick trip home for his best friend’s wedding has him struggling to readjust.
Thrust into an elaborate (and ridiculously drawn out) wedding event that’s stressing Jude beyond belief and has Indira seeing her ex and his new girlfriend far more frequently than any human should endure, the duo strike a bargain to be each other’s fake dates to this wedding from hell. The only problem is, their forced proximity and fake displays of affection are starting to feel a bit… real, and both are left grappling with the idea that a situation that couldn’t be worse, is made a little better with the other around.
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I’m super excited to say that the C.L.I.T.S Book Club will be hosting author Mazey Eddings for a Live Virtual Event on May 21, 2023, at 2 PM EST.
