mazey eddings i am begging you to stop breaking my heart and putting it back together!!! i need a moment (or several) to recover from tpo and really the whole brush with love series. 

first and foremost, tpo like the other books in the series gives the characters the opportunity to fall in love, heal from their past, experience all the emotions, and just be people that are so real and easy to love!!! 

indira and jude had me from the first page, begging me to fall in love with them too (and obviously i did). the progression from childhood hate to friends to being each others person was just so stunning!! it was inevitable, beautiful, and thoroughly enjoyable!!! 

kid of divorce rep anyone? bc indira was so f***ing real with all her feelings and experiences of feeling left behind and broken because of her parent’s decisions!!!! i have never felt more seen than in indira’s struggle with accepting the effects her parents divorce had and still has one her. 

the ptsd rep in here was just heartwrenching. jude’s story was hard to read but handled with such care. the feelings that he wrestled with were familiar, so i am grateful to eddings for how she handled his character arc.

what i love most about mazey eddings is that her fmcs are allowed to be emotional and hurt. i feel like so many romances gloss over emotions, but these ones feel everything and it makes an emo girl like me so pleased to see it.