I read A Brush With Love last year and thought it was super cute and a fun read, albeit lacking something and not as captivating as I would have liked. However, The Plus One really blew me away! I'm so happy I decided to read this, because it was such a wonderful book and had everything I could have wanted. I loved getting a crossover and seeing characters from A Brush With Love appear in this book. It felt like family, to be able to see everyone come together. I think the most important thing to highlight about this book isn't the romance or the tropes or the writing - although all of those are stellar - but the mental health and trauma representation that we see. Jude and Indira come from difficult pasts, and carry their scars into their futures. I truly enjoyed seeing them come together and help each other heal, support each other, and love each other through it all, good and bad. Healing is not linear, and it is certainly not easy, and I have to prasie Mazey Eddings for giving us such a realistic and raw representation of PTSD, trauma, healing, therapy and so much more. This book was smart, sexy, real, funny and worth your time to check out. I highly recommend. 

Tropes: childhood friends, brother's best friend, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, enemies to lovers. 

Thank you to St. Martin's Griffin and NetGalley for an eARC of this book you cannot miss.