Thank you to NetGalley and Holiday House for providing me with an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review

5⭐️

first of all, this book was amazing! it wasn’t hard for me fall in love with it considering it served one of my favourite tropes which is academic rivals to lovers and this trope was done so well that i could literally reread this book right now and not be bored.

my mechanical romance follows bel, who is forced to join the robotics team after her teacher notices her potential and talent for engineering. bel was honestly the perfect protagonist and i think many young people could relate with her struggles. her relationship with her teacher ms. voss reminded me of one of my favourite teachers in high school and those moments were personally some of the most heart warming ones. we could use more teachers like that in our world.

the plot of the whole book was also very interesting and i’m so happy that stem inspired romance books are getting more popular these days. i really liked reading about the robot fights since i also used to be really into science in high school.

when it comes to romance i’m just gonna say it’s one of the most adorable ones i’ve read about in a while. teo and bel were the perfect couple and i love how they understood each other and always tried to be helpful and considerate. their issues were also resolved in such a nice way and i was so relieved that there was no drama. all the other characters were lovable as well.

this book was one of the shorter ones and fast paced but it still captured all of the emotions perfectly. my mechanical romance managed to both be cute and funny and explore really important themes in life which is one of the reasons i loved it so much.