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

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While I do not want to go into such a science-specific field as most of the characters, I love seeing women in STEM be represented in all books as I will be going for the same.

I think it was because in Scarlet (the book I'm referring to with the insta-love I liked) I actually felt connected with the characters, and I really liked them.This is a truly heart-warming story of loss, recovery and above all, of community' Bernie McGill, author of The Watch House. Bel has been plunged into a new school for her senior year and persuaded to join the school’s robotics team where she meets team captain Teo who is as bright as he is beautiful and overbearing. When Bel accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s forced into joining the robotics club. I know the world doesn’t revolve around me, but for a second it’s totally cinematic, like we’re the stars of our own movie and all the people dancing around us are celebrating us the same way we are. Everytime I saw Bel's name, the name Belly from the Summer I turned Pretty series came to my head and I haven't even read those books.

Apart from that, i really enjoyed the representation about women in stem being dismissed because they are women and because stem is usually a degree that is dominated by men. I have had asshole professors who don't take female students seriously and dismiss us as if we aren't any more intelligent than our male colleagues.I get how frustrating is try to prove your own worth, work your way and show what are you capable of. Obviously it’s great when marginalised people can support each other but the automatic assumption that people marginalised within their context are obligated to be instant best buds is … kinda messed up.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Im so mad that this book was average, i was so hyped for it and it makes me super sad that i am 100% going to forget everything about this book in four days. Moreover, I just really liked her in general, her love for "weird" clothes was such a fun detail about her. I love how all the side characters have their own personality and share an important part in the story. i think the friendships portrayed in this were really cute and more investment worthy than the romantic relationship.There were so many instances when she was competing in robotics where people on the opposite teams said she was just "diversity points" or "token diversity girl. 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. It reminded me that I am not the only person with divorced parents and that every negative and positive experience that comes with it, and any emotions I may feel about any of it is valid. I taped it where it supposed te be, but I still think this is bad, because this was a pricier book since it just came out. I love how their relationship played out, and how the spark of the yearning period doesn't disappear after the relationship started.

She does, of course, find her own path after this but I kind of loved the fact we see a YA heroine want something very sincerely, do her best to get it, and still not … get it? If you can’t credit me with simply being a person who loves books and likes talking about them, at least credit me with enough common sense to be a better villain. Stuck between having to figure out if she can forgive her father while also staying with her mother. 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.

Many, many thanks to Holiday House and NetGalley for providing me with this digital ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts. I know this is fiction, but I just know that this book would be precisely 70 pages (I marked it) if I were the main character. I do like her character though, and I like how she got to figure out where she wanted to go in life, who she wanted to be, and what she wanted to do. Teo, the captain of the robotics team sees her as a smart and capable team member, but then after an incident they don't see eye-to-eye.