"A delightful teen romance about building robots and new futures" - Kirkus Reviews
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Goodreads.com Readers Choice Award Nominee - Favourite Young Adult Fiction.
"In her YA debut, Alexene Farol Follmuth, author of The Atlas Six (under the penname Olivie Blake), explores both the challenges girls of color face in STEM and the vulnerability of first love with unfailing wit and honesty. With an adorable, opposites-attract romance at its center and lines that beg to be read aloud, My Mechanical Romance is swoonworthy perfection." 3.85 out of 5 stars, 22,640 ratings as at 15 Dec 2024.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Opposites attract in this battle-robot-building YA romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six.
An adorable opposites-attract YA romance that explores the vulnerability of first love.
Nerds are so hot. Especially battle-robot-building nerds. When Bel accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she's forced into joining the robotics club. Enter Mateo Luna, perfect on paper - captain of the football team and the robotics club - who recognizes Bel as a potential asset, even if they couldn't be more different.
And as the nights of after-school work grow longer, Bel and Teo realize they've made more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: they've made a connection themselves. But with graduation approaching, their differences and what they want for their futures, threatens what they've built together.
Can they survive Nationals without breaking their robots - or their hearts?
YA Romance / Contemporary
Paperback
Alexene Farol Follmuth
272 pages
H: 197mm W: 130mm Spine: 17mm
Weight: 200 grams