A flirty rom-com about a passionate young woman with ADHD who falls hard for an Australian visiting Philadelphia -- a man who suddenly upends her life...and his own.
As in her prior novel, A Brush
with Love (see my review
below), neurodiverse author, Mazey
Eddings returns to share another lively, edgy rom-com
about a young, single woman grappling with life, sex and love. In Lizzie
Blake’s Best Mistake, Eddings introduces
readers to Philadelphian, Lizzie Blake, a woman with great intensity and passion
struggling with a slew of faux pas that prohibit her from having stability in her
life – be it via employment, the acceptance of her parents or beaus. Afflicted
with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), down-on-her-luck, Lizzie,
who prefers one-night-stands to serious relationships, succumbs to a romp with
Rake, a “hot Australian” she meets at a bar, whose past romantic baggage has
made him swear off relationships and hook-ups, too, for that matter. But Rake
finds the passionate, sexy charm of madcap Lizzie irresistible—and vice-versa. Their
one-night stand leads to two, which then leads to an unwanted pregnancy—all of which
forces the impulsive couple to rethink who they are and what they really want
out of life.
Eddings
has professed that her “personal mission in life” is to “destigmatize mental
health issues and write love stories for every brain.” In her creation of Lizzy
Blake, she proves, yet again, she has the knack for capturing the true essence
of marginalized characters who cleverly come into their own—with many
adventures and surprises along the way. Once again, Eddings delivers a lusty, snarky, “lovers-to-friends-to-soul-mates”
romantic comedy that greatly entertains while mining hot-button contemporary issues
in a fun, accessible way.
Lizzie
Blake’s Best Mistake (A Brush with Love Book Two) by Mazey Eddings
St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.99 paperback, 9780778312000, 336 pages
Publication Date: September 6, 2022
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Romance
A Brush
with Love
by Mazey Eddings
Only a writer as creative and perceptive as neurodiverse
author Mazey Eddings could have made a dental school in Philadelphia, Pa., the
perfect place to set an edgy romantic comedy. In A Brush with Love,
her first novel, she plumbs deep roots, both literally and metaphorically,
exploring challenges faced by two young dental students. Their unexpected
chance meeting upends their lives.
Harper is an intense person, a driven perfectionist, whose
battle with a general anxiety disorder stems from the sudden loss of her
parents when she was only 12. She has succeeded in being a top student at
Callowhill University's School of Dental Medicine, channeling protracted sorrow
by throwing herself headlong into her medical studies. As a senior near
graduation--though she intends to continue studies in oral surgery--one day she
falls down a flight of stairs onto a freshman named Dan, completely destroying a
3D model made for one of his courses. Dan wanted a career in finance but, faced
with familial expectations, he begrudgingly enrolled in dental school. Their
meet-cute collision ignites a spark that turns into a romance. Their
attraction, however, brings their individual sordid pasts and emotional scars
to the fore, challenging what they know about themselves, each other and the
push and pull of their lusty passions.
Eddings's energetic story appears, on the surface,
entertainingly frothy. However, as she focuses on her quirky
characters--revealing who they truly are and why--readers will discover much
deeper, thought-provoking emotional issues. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger
at Reading Between the Lines
Discover: In
this lusty rom-com, two dental students are tested by the truth of who they are
on their road to love and self-actualization.
St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99, paperback, 336p., 9781250805980
NOTE: This review for A BRUSH WITH LOVE was featured on Shelf Awareness for Readers on Friday, March 4, 2022. To read the review as originally published link HERE.
