The Plus One

"Mazey Eddings’s writing is authentic, emotional, and intensely romantic! To me, it’s like a Taylor Swift song in book form." - New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood 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.

Einfach ein wunderschönes, ehrliches und rohes Romancebuch. Die Repräsentation von mentaler Gesundheit ist - zugegeben, aus Sicht einer Nicht-Betroffenen - sehr gelungen und wirkt authentisch. Die TWs in dem Zusammenhang sind gleich auf der ersten Seite zu finden: PTSD from losing patients as a medical provider in emergency situations, emotional repercussions of growing up with divorces parents und moving on after a past partner cheated. Abgesehen haben wir es hier mit childhood frenemies to strangers to lovers, forced proximity und fake dating zu tun. Alles drei Tropes, die mir sehr gut gefallen haben und gut umgesetzt waren. Das Buch hat mein Herz gleichermaßen zerbrochen und wieder zusammengeflickt, daher eine absolute Empfehlung!