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

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I felt like there wasn’t enough conflict resolving and it made me sad because I understood where Mateo’s need to win and succeed and to lead came from. 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. this was a bit of a slow burn and it was like with every interaction I was waiting with anticipation until they got together. Enter Mateo Luna, captain of the club, who recognizes Bel as a potential asset—until they start butting heads. This was my first book by Alexene (I didn't knew Alexene was Olivie Blake's pen name for YA contemporary romance books 😭).

The audiobook is enjoyable overall, but the voice the female narrator gave Bel's friend Jamie is very annoying. In any case, this is a charming YA romance that also—and this is very much my perspective—explores the issue facing (young) women, especially young WOC, in STEM with a touch more nuance that I’ve generally seen. In the beginning, I was really hesitant about Neelam and the direction her story was going to go, but I ended up really enjoying her. Bel in many aspects was a very relatable character for me, especially as we shared the trait of being a person of color and a woman.

It was not just about teenage angst, high school drama or fluffy puppy love it was much more than that.

The side characters really added to the lively feel of the book as well, they were all so much fun and some really great friends to the main characters. Plus the character dynamics really work and I feel a lot of this owes to her attention to getting down the character’s psychological moods quite well. i also think this book can be a good encouragement for young girls, who maybe want to get into STEM but were always made to feel like it "isn't for them".Bel changed Teo and his habbit of always being a fixer and she loved herself the most when she was with Teo—which was both a good thing and a bad thing. My Mechanical Romance is not just a love story but also a coming of age story about teenagers finding their ways in life and a tale of resilience and self-discovery.

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