I’m never going to stop being the type of person who buys a book because of its cover. It has come back to bite me a few times, but not enough to make me change my ways.
My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth
The cover (and the title) is what drew me into this book and while I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would, I still love the cover. The pink is so eye-catching and the character designs are adorable. I love that the title looks like a motherboard (at least that’s what I think it is).
Synopsis: Bel would rather die than think about the future. College apps? You’re funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s basically forced into joining the robotics club. Even worse? All the boys ignore Bel—and Neelam, the only other girl on the team, doesn’t seem to like her either.
Enter Mateo Luna, captain of the club, who recognises Bel as a potential asset—until they start butting heads. Bel doesn’t care about Nationals, while Teo cares too much. But as the nights of after-school work grow longer and longer, Bel and Teo realize they’ve made more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: they’ve made each other and the team better. Because girls do belong in STEM.
The Alice Equation by Davina Stone
I love this style of cover for contemporary romance books. I know some people really don’t like them, but I think they’re so cute. The character designs are fun and I like how minimalistic it is.
Synopsis: Three months of fake dating your best friend?
No problem…
Unless you are an anxiety-prone bookworm called Alice Montgomery, and you’ve had a secret crush on said best friend since uni.
Aaron Blake has no intention of falling for anyone, he’s pretty sure he missed out on the love gene. And certainly never, ever Alice. She’s his only friend-who-is-a-girl and he has no intention of messing that up.
But when Alice agrees to fake date Aaron to help him land a top attorney job, (on the condition he teaches her how to flirt) Aaron soon finds out that friendship first and attraction second is an equation he’d never done the math on.
And when secrets from the past surface with dramatic consequences, both Alice and Aaron will have to re-do the sums on this crazy little thing called love…
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