Genre ~ romantic comedy
Featuring ~ best friends sister, brothers best friend, childhood enemies to lovers, fake dating, steamage
POV ~ dual 3rd person
Series ~ A Brush With Love #3
Others in the series ~ A Brush With Love #1, Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake #2
Publisher ~ St Martin’s Press, Macmillan Audio
Release date ~ April 4, 2023
Page count ~ 314
Audio length ~ 11 hours 0 minutes
My rating ~ 4⭐
My review:
Book 3 in the A Brush With Love series ~ previous book characters are involved here, but probably fine as a standalone.
Content warnings from the author ~ PTSD from losing patients as a medical provider in emergency situations, emotional repercussions of growing up with divorced parents, moving on after a past partner cheats
Indira & Jude
Indira walks in on Chris, her live in boyfriend, in quite a gross and sticky compromising position. She packs her stuff and heads to her brother, Colin’s, house. But it’s not Colin who answers the door, it’s his best friend and her enemy, Jude.
Each chapter is titled to give us a countdown to Colin and Jeremy’s wedding. A wedding that Chris will be attending, so Jude offers to be Indira’s fake date. As they spend more and more time together the fake dating line gets a bit blurred.
I felt that mental health was well written. I liked that Indira is a psychiatrist who sees one herself and that Jude got the help he needed as well.
I really enjoyed these two together, their self journey and their journey to each other, and how it all wrapped up. This was a great ending to the series.
I was fortune enough to have a kindle copy and an audio copy ~ both formats works perfectly.
Narration:
Jade Powers & Joe Arden ~ 11 hours 0 minutes ~ a lovely job by both
*Thanks to Mazey Eddings, St Martins Press, Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
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Book blurb:
What starts out as a fake wedding date turns into something these childhood enemies never expected in The Plus One, a sparkling romantic comedy by Mazey Eddings.
She’s not looking to fix him. She’s looking to love him, if he’ll let her in.
Some facts are indisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exists. 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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Great review! I’m looking forward to reading this series.
Thanks Ali. Hope you like it when you get to it.