ARC Review: My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth
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Author: Alexene Farol Follmuth
Published June 23rd 2022 by Macmillan
Goodreads Synopsis
From Alexene Farol Follmuth the globally bestselling, TikTok viral author of The Atlas Six (under the penname Olivie Blake) comes My Mechanical Romance, an adorable opposites-attract YA romance that explores the vulnerability of first love.
Nerds are so hot.
Especially battle–robot–building nerds.
When Bel accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s forced into joining the robotics club.
Enter Mateo Luna, perfect on paper – captain of the football team and the robotics club – who recognizes Bel as a potential asset, even if they couldn’t be more different. And as the nights of after–school work grow longer, Bel and Teo realize they've made more than just a combat–ready robot for the championship: they’ve made a connection themselves.
But with graduation approaching, their differences and what they want for their futures, threatens what they’ve built together.
Can they survive Nationals without breaking their robots – or their hearts?
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher. This in no way impacted on my view.
After joining a new school, Bel is encouraged to join the robotics club. Not really something she's interested in, as she's more of a coder, she finds out that there's only one other girl on the team, and it's very much a testosterone filled nightmare. But the captain of the team, Mateo Luna - who also happens to be captain of the football team too - sees something in Bel, and though they clash heads regularly, he needs her for the team to win. Working together after school, they soon realise that it's not just a working relationship they have, but the potential for romance too.
I don't know what I was expecting with this book, but it was such a good story. Bel and Teo were the perfect MCs for the plot, and their somewhat enemies-to-lovers romance was great. I liked how much STEM was in the book, and Bel forced back against the gender stereotypes to prove that she was more than worthy to be in the school and on the team, and no one should underestimate her.
Dates Read:
July 14-16, 2024
Rating
4 Stars
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