My Mechanical Romance: An Opposites-attract YA Romance from the Bestselling Author of The Atlas Six

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Opposites attract in the battle-robot-building YA romance about the vulnerability of first love, written by the TikTok sensation of The Atlas Six. I loved how the author explored the misogyny when it comes to females that want to/do participate in STEM and how hard it is for women to prove they’re just as good or smart and have many cool ideas. So, I'm very much a hypocrite: I literally was just writing a review a few days ago and I said that the insta-love in that book didn't really faze me at all, while other situations, like Gilded just irritated me to the point that I disliked the book because of it.

Like feeling the earth beneath your feet while knowing there are things flying free above you, and things living and breathing below you, and for a moment you just feel connected to everything.We’ve spent the last however many weeks and months and years building shit together that we let other people destroy, and somehow the only thing that never gets broken is the bond that we have with one another. All the boys ignore Bel—and Neelam, the only other girl on the team, doesn’t seem to like her either. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She has to change to schools due to her parents’ complicated divorce and, once her talent for engineering is spotted by a well-meaning teacher (a genuinely well-meaning teacher, I hasten to add) she ends up joining the school’s robotics club. Beset by rocky team dynamics, biases and frequent disputes, Bel is determined to prove she belongs and Farol Follmuth delivers a swoon-worthy good time that feels honest and insightful as well as heartwarmingly romantic.

I loved their dynamic and it was so much fun to see how they slowly both realised how much they like each other, while still maintaining their usual banter. The beginning was also a little slow, and it was honestly boring me, but again, that could be because I wasn't connected with the characters. Opposites attract in this battle-robot-building YA romance from the NYT best-selling author of The Atlas Six. Overall, this was a super fun read and I would totally recommend it if you're a looking for a cute romance set in academia. By the end, I had so many young women in STEM warm fuzzies that I was sobbing happily into my duvet.He's a hot nerd (he's literally referred to as such by his mother, I believe) who likes robotics, plays soccer, and has a strict dad.