A review by dani_reviews
How to Build a Boyfriend from Scratch by Sarah Archer

Did not finish book.
DNF at 18%

I lost my patience with this book. The premise sounded great, and based on the cover and blurb, I thought I was in for a fun, geeky romance. It even says in the UK tag line “rom com”. But while it started funny and geeky, it got old real quick. By 18%, all we’ve had is more and more of I Can’t Even Remember Her Name being boring and annoying. Her creating an online dating profile and being completely unable to think of any interests or hobbies so making it up? Seriously? Even if someone is nerdy, they’ll have things to write about, like an interest in Marvel, Star Wars, etc. (That’s in my profile.) Hell, put down robotics if that’s what gets her engines revving. We haven’t even reached the robot boyfriend bit yet.

Which brings me on to my next thing. Actually, my main thing. Why does this book have to package itself as a nerdy romance if it’s not one? I know this is a Me problem, but the cover and blurb scream romance, but then I see in reviews (which I started reading to see if it was worth continuing) that no, this is not one. I had two guesses about how the story would go: either she’d pioneer robot-human relations (a very interesting philosophical subject), or the robot thing would be a red herring and she’d really develop something with the hot psychologist. The reviews say this book is all about self-love, though.

Which is great!!!!! I’m all for self-love!!!!!! But ugh, there’s only so much self-pitying awkwardness I can take before I need something to Happen. And so I got frustrated and bored with this protagonist and gave up. Meh.