Mazey Eddings - A Brush With Love
4.5 ⭐
Genre: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Fiction.
Pages: 336
Format: eARC on NetGalley
Publisher: Headline, Headline Eternal
Date Published: 7th April 2022 (UK paperback)
Big thank you to Headline Eternal and NetGalley for the eARC .
Book Blurb:
Blood, gore, and extra-long roots? No problem. The idea of falling in love? Torture.
My Review:
This is my first book of April and honestly, it was a brilliant book to start my April reads!
When I saw this book advertised on NetGalley and read the blurb, I immediately knew this is going to be amazing….and it was!
Mazey Eddings's debut romance novel ‘A Brush with Love’ was one of the cutest rom-coms I have read. For me, it had The Kiss Quotient mixed with The Love Hypothesis vibe and I loved it since I am a big fan of both of those books.
The book is about fourth-year dentistry student Harper, who loves dentistry and only really cares about her career, especially getting to the best residency programme. She also likes to keep herself busy with books and studying as that’s one of the best ways she can mask her anxiety. She had her life under control until she meets a first-year dentistry student Dan and falls head over heels for him. Dan’s character can’t be more opposite to Harper, he is calm, sociable, and knows that dentistry is not his passion. Although, he has his own issues with grief and belonging, which made him a very likeable character. I think at times Harper did play too much with his feelings, which is another thing that is different in this rom-com, as usually, the guy is the one that plays with girls’ feelings.
Harper’s character at times was frustrating to read, especially her being adamant not to get help and just pretending that she can control her anxiety alone, not even talking about it with her best friends. At times, I also didn’t like how she played with Dan’s feelings and kept backing out after leading him on. Although, at the same time, I understood why she was like this, especially why she didn’t want to get help and why she wanted to keep herself to herself.
Dan’s character was my favourite. He was so caring, understanding, gentle and patient with Harper, it made me fall in love with his character even more. I wanted him to be happy and find his happily ever after so much.
Eddings did an excellent job at shining light onto the anxiety and giving it a representation in a romance book. I do strongly believe that more books need to have characters like Harper so that readers can learn more and become understanding of these issues in real life.
Also, I liked that attention to sexism was drawn into this story to again show that it is hard to be a female in a job where even though you are skilful and talented, some people will still look down on you like you are less.
Overall, this book is funny and witty, with such a cute romance and genuine friendships. At the same time, the issues talked about in this book, including sexism, anxiety, and grief, just made this book more real and relatable. I really enjoyed this book and it is definitely going to be one of the top romance books, I have read this year.
I recommend this book if you loved The Love Hypothesis and The Kiss Quotient, as this book has a bit of everything for everyone.
Can't wait for the second book in this series.
This review was first published on NetGalley and can be found on:
https://www.netgalley.co.uk/book/252100/review/959200
About an Author:
Mazey Eddings is a neurodiverse author, dentist, and (most importantly) stage mom to her cats, Yaya and Zadie. She can most often be found reading romance novels under her weighted blanket and asking her boyfriend to bring her snacks. She’s made it her personal mission in life to destigmatize mental health issues and write love stories for every brain. With roots in Ohio and North Carolina, she now calls Philadelphia home.
https://mazeyeddings.com/
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