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

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Same with many of the side characters, although they are a lot less developed and can occasionally feel a little flat. By that I mean he clearly treats his son like he’s a full grown 40 year old CEO of a company not a teenager with hormones. But this book also really addresses how our perceptions of others are often biased based on initial reactions to them and as we learn more about these characters our own perception of them changes.

I enjoyed how the book talked about how getting into the best school is NOT ALL that matters, and you can be really smart while choosing something else, because it is YOUR education no one else's. It’s actually a pretty accurate depiction of how hostile nerd guys are towards women in “male dominated fields,” it’s just this throughline is thrown to the wayside and glossed over in the third-act. Before you get any ideas about my rating, I really loved the potential as well as some elements of this book!Overall, this was a heartfelt YA romance that touched upon the difficulties of women in STEM, complicated family dynamics, discovering your own potential, making new friends and finding romance when you least expect it.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I’m afraid the hero, Teo, didn’t come across quite as successfully to me: he’s very charming and I got the broad outlines of his character (he’s the son of a very successful tech billionaire, who puts a huge amount of pressure on him to succeed) but, even though the book is told in dual POV between him and Bel, his emotional arc felt less coherent.But as the nights of after-school work grow longer and longer, Bel and Teo realize they’ve made more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: they’ve made each other and the team better. Eventually, though, she manages to forge a fragile peace with the over-achieving robotics team captain, golden boy Theo Luna, and this leads to wider acceptance in the team as a whole.