This was such a fun adorable read. I loved every bit of it. The Characters where great aswell as the story.

love this YA stem story, and from a lead who was avoiding all school social things until she figured out she was good at this. I hope this author writes more ya and that these group of friends have more stories in them.

I actually really loved this!

My Mechanical Romance follows Bel, a girl who hasn't really put much thought into her future plans. When she inadvertently shows a talent for engineering, she is accepted onto the school's highly successful robotics team. There she meets and butts heads with team captain Teo Luna, a boy who always has to help and is dependable to a fault. We watch as the two of them learn from each other on their way to Nationals.

I think this book was so stinking cute and was the perfect kind of YA book. I wish there was something like this out there when I was reading more YA books. I'm not very into STEM myself, but I mostly loved Bel's journey into learning how to be a woman in a male-dominated space and to demand her own space and accept that she likes robotics and that's okay! The romance between Teo and Bel was SO adorable and had me giggling half the time.

What I liked most about this book is that I think it toed that perfect line that YA often struggles with it felt light and fun and refreshing, but it wasn't dumbed down at all. It felt like this was a really smart read and could potentially help readers become more interested in STEM themselves. This plot was so unique too and I definitely feel like it stands out in the YA romance space.

Overall, I really enjoyed this and highly recommend it to readers! thank you Netgalley and Holiday House for the arc!

this story is truly wholesome, the main characters and the manner in which the story has been built up is just very sweet. The pace is a bit slow but it is no way boring at any point. It is a fun read overall.

2.5 stars.
I ended up listening to the audiobook for this one. The narration for this book was done really well but ultimately this story did not keep my attention. I find it a bit hard to pin point the age range this book is best suited for, some parts felt more middle grade, some parts were handling more mature YA issue.
I do want to praise the way this book handled and put a focus on young women in STEM. I also really appreciated the subversion when a side character "called out" the main character for assuming she would automatically succeed in an area that takes most people years of hard work to get to where they want to be.

I read this book in one sitting it was so fun and easy to read! I loved the characters so much, Such an adorable, fun and quick book.

I loved this book so much! It was such a cute read. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for granting me an ARC!!

Teo and Bel were the absolute cutest, I am in love with them and this story. I really enjoyed how it was dual POV with great character development throughout the entire book. I loved how it talked so much about the inequalities faced and how that affects girls interested in something like this.

Reading Teo and Bel feel safe and comfortable with each other, slowly become friends and then finally relaise they were actually in love with each other was so precious. the way they cared about each other meant so much to me!! Teo feeling like Bel saw more of him than others and just understood who he was without having to keep up his facade was so important. Bel letting Teo in and letting him help, because she slowly started having fun and not feel judged in his company <33

they were like a breath of fresh air and this is one of my new favourite books of all time i love them so much

3.75

A fun, flirty enemies to lovers, YA read!

I had a great time reading through My Mechanical Romance. It was a quick read- I read it in one sitting! I liked the STEM elements in the story. I would have appreciated a bit more depth, but other than that it was a fun time.

I read it as an arc and i love to see how popular it was after the release. The relationships, stem talks, romance... Everything was so fun and good.

My Mechanical Romance is a dual point of view young adult romance novel featuring the two main characters, Bel and Mateo. When Bel is aceing her on-level physics class, she gets moved up to advanced physics, where she begins to butt heads with Teo, who's the president of the robotics team and is somewhat of an extreme control freak. When Bel joins the team, their rivalry only gets worse until Mateo finally realizes that Bel is by far the smartest person on the robotics team.

This book was one of my favorite reads of 2022! Bel and Teo are so cute and the fact that the third act breakup wasn't rooted in some sort of misogyny made the book even better - especially when highlighting women in stem without shoving it in your face (as a fellow women in engineering - thank you).

Enjoyed this but didn’t love it. Sometimes these cartoon covers are hit or miss for me. Overall okay

I adored this cute romance that indeed has bots!
Love how the author dives into woman in STEM along with the challenges, especially since Bel is a person of color. The whole female mindset and kicking dudes butts along with girls can do anything that boys can do was just adorbs in this YA romcom book, definitely recommend to all!

I didn’t give it five stars just because some of the chapters felt too short or just passed way too much which could’ve gone into more details I feel like.
I feel like too I would’ve love to see more Teo with his problems with his own family than just Bel?? It could just be me but overall I enjoyed this a lot!

4.5 rounded down to 4.

I loved this book so much! This is truly a book that I wish I had when I was younger. I was on an all girls robotics team in middle school and I honestly forgot about it until I read this book.

I also loved the dialogue around Teo feeling like everyone always relied on him. While I didn't have that exact experience, I did have a huge amount of stress on me (mostly from myself) when I was applying to colleges and it was very hard for me to process.

This is GREAT YA for women in STEM!!

This book was so sweet! I wish when I was a teenager that I could have read something like this. The main characters are so lovable and you find yourself rooting for them the whole time. I recommended this to some of my high school teacher friends, but also to anyone that loves a good roman as well as story about women in science. Thank you #netgalley for the gifted copy!

First, thankyou NetGalley for this arc!

It was a cute enjoyable book, loved the STEM rep, but I got bored most of the time. I believe that some of y'all would really love this, but I expected more of the rivalry, a bit more tense I guess.
It is fast-paced and a good book for a non-English speaker.

This was such a good read and I highly recommend it to anyone loving fiction. I love the characters and the plot? It carries you through the whole story and makes you never want to put it down until the very end. Readers will love it from the very first page and all the way to the end?

I have read Alexene's other work under her pen name, Olivie Blake, and enjoyed it. While I mostly enjoyed this book it, unfortunately, fell a little flat for me. The characters were average and their story was average. One personal note is that this book is YA but there is an entire adult romance "STEMinst" series that I, respectfully, would recommend over this one. Thank you to Holiday House and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary copy to review.

An interesting book which could benefit from some stronger characterisation/ pacing but still lots of fun!

Lovely romance. I liked it a lot. Left me for wanting to read more. I'm interested in reading more novels by this author.

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book! The title and this beautiful cover drew me in and i was excited to read this book! I will be recommending this book to others for readers advisory.