Why did it take me so long to read this? I loved it and it brought a great reading experience with it.

Tilly in Technicolor is Mazey Edding’s YA debut that follows two neurodivergent teens who are travelling around Europe and fall for each other as doing so.

I had a great time following Tilly and Oliver across Europe, seeing how they see the world and their relationship develop. These two neurodivergent characters brought me so much joy and I would just keep reading about them for books and books. It was great to see both of these characters grow throughout the story and see who they were at the end of the book compared to the start of the book.

I also really liked travelling through Europe with these characters and seeing how they struggled with the environments around them, and the descriptions of those moments were really well done and it truly did seem like Mazey knew what she was talking about and understood what it feels like to be in these situations.

While I didn’t love all the relationships all the way through I did like seeing them develop and see the point they were at by the end of the story and how much the characters had done what they needed to do even if it wasn’t always easy.

I cannot wait to read more from Mazey Eddings who I have wanted to read for a while and now want to read so much more from. This was an easy 4.75 star read that I really recommend and need to get my hands on a physical copy of.

I've now read a few of Mazey Eddings' books but I wasn't sure what to expect when it came to her first foray into YA. But I definitely enjoyed Tilly in Technicolor.
First and foremost, I really liked to see the neurodivergence representation. Even though it's a YA story, I found that both the topics of ADHD and autism were handled well.
The romance was also lovely and I was really invested by the end.
I just wish that books like this had been around when I was a teenager.
I can't wait to see what Mazey Eddings does next. She's certainly an author that has quickly become an auto-read for me.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

★★★★☆ An endearing journey of self-discovery. Tilly in Technicolor is a heartwarming tale that will captivate readers as Tilly, a young autistic girl, discovers connection and community in the most unlikely of places. Mazey Eddings crafts a story that shines in its moments of joy, insight, and the celebration of neurodiversity. You'll find yourself rooting for Tilly as she navigates the world in her unique, vibrant way. This book is for anyone who has felt different, out of place, or in search of where they truly belong. Tilly's story will stay with you long after the final page.

I was absolutely loving this book!! I got to 50% but even though I was enjoying it, I was also finding it a struggle to read at times. And now I’ve had it set aside for a few weeks, I really have no drive to pick it back up and finish the last 50% despite enjoying it before.

It absolutely has fantastic autism and adhd rep though!! So stunning!! For that alone I’m giving it 2 stars instead of the 1 star I would normally give to a DNF.

Another good read
Perfect book to curl up with and to get lost in
Will have you hooked from the first page
Thanks NetGalley

Firstly, I'd like to give a huge hug to Mazey Eddings for getting a neurodivergent character SO RIGHT. Secondly, OHMIGODILOVEDTHISBOOK. Literally. Love. it has my heart. I can't stop thinking about it and it felt so romantic and magical and addictive. I was smiling the whole time I was reading and couldn't get enough. Tilly and Oliver are wonderfully written and their story is beautiful!

Tilly in Technicolor - Mazey Eddings

⭐⭐⭐

Tilly and Ollie head out on a summer of work with Tilly's sister Mona and her business partner. The gang travel around Europe to promote and build their nail polish company Ruhe.

Tilly and Oliver are merely strangers at the beginning but their romance begins to bud and soon they are closer than ever.

This book has a really wholesome family vibe, where you get to explore a few different relationships.

Tilly has a few complicated relationships, such as, the one with her mother and sister Mona. Throughout the book it takes you through many ups and downs and the difficulties they all experience.

One thing I really enjoyed about this book was the way it discussed ADHD and Autism, you can tell that the author knows what she is talking about when taking on the two. Also included in this book are insanely good colour descriptions which thoroughly impressed me.

Would recommend this to anyone who wants a wholesome YA read.

*Thank you to NetGalley for sending me this book in exchange for a review. All opinions are my own*

I really enjoyed The Plus One by Eddings so was excited to give this newest work of hers a go, but unfortunately I really couldn’t connect to either of the main characters and couldn’t get past the awkwardness.

Gorgeous gorgeous girls read Mazey Eddings… :)

Seriously, if you have not read anything by her, be this one! Unbelievably entertaining, heartfelt and full of with color, emotions and overcoming hardships. I loved how one plane ticket can change the whole trajectory of the summer job Tilly is doing. Meeting Ollie brought out in her the best, she is finally starting to reach for her dreams not listening to the voice telling her that her “otherness” would fail her. Being neurodivergent has never been written this beautifully and in an empowering way! The blooming romance, the relationships with family and new friends was just a bonus.

Every page was my favorite, cannot recommend enough to get it asap.🥰

This was sweet and light-hearted and I'd love to put it in the hands of neurodivergent teens in particular, but it didn't quite live up to my expectations.

This was so cute. I have previously only read one book by Mazey, but I quite enjoyed this one. It was swoon and heart felt.

The story of Tilly and Oliver, both interns for Tilly's sister in Europe over the summer. Both have their struggles, but understand each other. I liked how it was told from both points of view.

4.5

As a neurodivergent woman it’s difficult to find books where you feel truly represented, but this book was an absolute pleasure to read.

In fact, the experience of reading this book felt so overwhelming - the immeasurable feeling of being seen, heard and understood; the vulnerability in those feelings; the gut wrench at every description of what it means to be different in a society, or more specifically a family, where you feel as though you don’t belong…

Our main characters, Tilly and Ollie, are described with such reverence and tenderness. Their emotions spring off the pages, allowing the reader to truly appreciate the depths of neurodivergent joy, heartbreak, grief and love.

Adding to this, family and friendship dynamics are principal elements to the story - something I tend to find very intriguing.

Personally, the relationships between Ollie and his friends as well as Tilly and her family were so refreshing to see, in the trials, tribulations and ultimately mutual support and acceptance.

In this respect, I can relate this book to those of Alice Oseman’s in how identity shapes and defines individuals, and from those shapes emerge love and friendship.

It is also important I mention how interesting and beautiful I found Ollie’s perspective to be, as someone who has not previously been particularly taken with ‘colour theory’ before. I found it so fascinating how he pictured the world around him - it gave me the sense of soft comfort I didn’t know I was craving.

I’m so grateful to have received a digital arc of this book, courtesy of Headline Eternal through NetGalley.

I truly cannot wait to read Mazey’s other works! I think she is incredible and I hope to see this book spoken about highly!

Thank you to NetGalley UK and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for a review.

3.5-4⭐️

I mulled over this one, it took me a few days to think over how I wanted to review it. As I’ve seen some other reviewers comment on, the ending tied up a little too neatly for me and ended up seeming pretty unrealistic in a way that turned me off… but, I stepped away from that feeling and thought about the book again.

This is a YA book, written about two 18 year olds - an autistic boy and a girl with ADHD. I’ve read Mazey Edding’s other books and I found this one to be a little more explanatory, going into detailed to descriptions of symptoms quite often. I, personally, related more to the experience of ADHD in ME’s Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake, but this is an equally valid one. When I stepped back from my feelings about the ending, I imagined what it would be like if I read this book at the age of the target audience - an teenaged girl who didn’t know she had ADHD or really understand what it was - and wondered what it might have meant to me. Tilly in Technicolour does not skimp over the challenges that ADHD - or autism - brings, but also shines a light on wonderful, unique neurodivergent joy. The frustration of navigating a world not made for you, but also all the things made more beautiful by the way our brains are. This books shows the power of neurodivergent community - when we flock together and find each other, when Tilly and Oliver discover each other - how seeing someone who struggles the same as you makes things so much easier, so much happier. How some of the things you end up feeling insecure about, being too loud or chaotic, might be the thing someone you love celebrates.

Thinking about how that might have impacted me when I was a teenager, when I was first starting to really understand that I was struggling, makes me happy this book exists. I can imagine how this story - a cute, fluffy romance with a lot of deeper meaning - might help someone in similar shoes. I’m grateful for everything Mazey Eddings has written and I hope many more stories about neurodivergents and how loveable they are keep coming.

18 year old Tilly has never felt like she fits in, and her ADHD diagnosis only puts a further barrier between her and her family. Her mom sends her to spend the summer with her sister Mona in the hopes she will learn how to ‘grow up’ and settle down. On the flight over she has a disastrous run in with very attractive Oliver, who it turns out is her sister’s other intern, so they will be spending every day together.

It’s hard to put into words how much I enjoyed this book. Mazey does such a good, authentic job at not only accurately addressing the challenges of discovering who on earth you are at 18, but portrays both ADHD and autism in a way that is sensitive and honest.

I felt so much for both Tilly and Oliver, and loved learning more about how their neurodiversity manifests in them and how they engage in the world around them. As an adult who believes I have some way to go to accepting my own potential neurodiversity, I will always find comfort in reading books about characters who don’t always get it right but try anyway. This book is raw and human and clumsy and all the better for it.

Also don’t we just all want to be loved by an Oliver?! I am blessed to have my own Oliver, who struggles to process information and obsessed about things and I’m as blessed as Tilly is to be on the receiving end of being loved by someone who can feel like that.

Given it’s a YA it is too dreamy in its conclusion, and the story is wrapped up in a nice bow that is much too simple given the challenge of the story. There’s no way this pans out this way in real life, and I considered whether I should reduce my rating based on this, but I honestly just had such a … real time reading about these two that I felt it was still deserving. I also read enough of this YA age group to know it’s just a quirk of the age group. I’d also have liked some editing of the amount of reference to smiling, but then as it’s a social queue I felt it was probably deliberate so again don’t want to reduce based on it.

I would really recommend this story to anyone who wants to either learn more about living with ND, engaging with someone with ND, or just loves teen love.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an arc in exchange for my honest opinions.

Thank you NetGalley for the chance to review this book.

I ADORED THIS BOOK SO MUCH. I’ve read Mazey’s other books and loved them. But Tilly in Technicolour was just something else. It’s a book I wish had been written when I was a teen.

It’s so hard not to fall in love with this story. We follow Tilly, who has ADHD, and Oliver, who has autism, as they travel through Europe as they intern for Tilly’s sister, Mona’s, company.

Tilly struggles to find her place in the world and wants to be surrounded by people but struggles to see the way the same way as others. We get a glimpse into her insight of the world and god is it refreshing. Mazey doesn’t right her as the perfect FMC. Tilly has her flaws and I could love her more for it. It makes her even more relatable.

This book has brought to light so many things I wasn’t aware people with ADHD deal with and I’m grateful for the insight. It shows me how I can grow as a person and help those I know who are diagnosed.

And Oliver. GOD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH OLLIE. He is obsessed with colour and his infodumping sessions were some of my favourite parts of the book. He’s just the most loveable cinnamon roll in the whole world. But feels so real and relatable and I want my own Ollie who is a bit more age appropriate for myself.

Again, I gained more insight into the affects autism has on a person. I know no one’s diagnosis’s are the same. But I feel like more people need to read this story for the exposure.

And the relationship between the two is everything. So evidently in love and it feels so fresh and new from other YA books I’ve read recently. I’m so glad Mazey branched into YA and I will continue to read her books.

Thank you again, Mazey. This is one of my top ten books for the year.

This is my book of the summer, possibly the year, it is absolutely beautiful. The title doesn’t do the book justice, everything is in colour, the relationships, the kiss, the water- all just beautiful. The world is seen through the eyes of Tilly and Oliver who have ADHD and autism and the book explores how this impacts relationships, how it shapes what they see, what they do and how they feel. It educates in a gentle and soft way with a few aha moments as the author puts into simple words the very complicated. Please please read this book and fall in love with it.

"Tilly in Technicolor" by Mazey Eddings is an incredibly touching and genuine story that had me both laughing and tearing up. The characters are not only endearing and relatable but also wonderfully diverse in their personalities and experiences. Tilly and Oliver's dynamic, with all its wit, innocence, and vulnerability, truly brought the book to life.

The novel's focus on neurodivergence is thoughtfully woven throughout the narrative, giving readers insights into the challenges that often go unnoticed. Tilly's blog posts and Oliver's explanations of his hyperfixations provide windows into their worlds, enhancing the authenticity of their characters.

The blend of the heartwarming story and the travel elements creates an enjoyable and quick-paced read. However, the ending did feel a bit rushed and unresolved. Nevertheless, the impact of the characters and the heartwarming community that Tilly finds among her friends leave a lasting impression.

Mazey Eddings skillfully brings attention to the complexities of life while crafting a sweet and swoony romance. "Tilly in Technicolor" explores the idea that sometimes, the most beautiful and meaningful parts of life can't be planned. If you're looking for a heartfelt and relatable rom-com that dives into unique perspectives, this is definitely a book to pick up. The characters and their journey will remain in your heart long after you turn the last page.

Another phenomenal book by Mazey Eddings 👏🏻
The amount of research and care she puts into her books about disabilities is amazing, she hits it nail on the head and this one isn't any different.
As a mother to a child with a disability, she writes in a way that is comprehendible for readers to grasp and doesn't write with the conventional image that comes with having either autism and Adhd.
It also helps that it's absolutely adorable and I couldn't put it down, my cheeks actually hurt from smiling so much 😂
As well as having amazing disability representation, we're also given a great deal of LGBTQ representation which is just as flawless 🥰
I've been a fan of Mazey's work for a while now but she's definitely an auto-buy author for me 🤍
Thank you for the ARC and gifted copy Headline Eternal and Mazey Eddings

What an absolute delight! This book was cute and heartwarming from start to finish, and I absolutely loved the representation not just of neurodiversity but of all the little differences that make people who they most. I also feel like I would really, really like to follow Ollie's Instagram account (can someone create one please). Fantastic rom-com, not just for teens.