My Mechanical Romance

this was so fun! highly recommend the audiobook (and huge thank you to shai for recommending the audiobook to me in the first place)!

a lot of the reservations that i have with Adults Writing Teenagers were dashed away in olivie blake's YA debut. both of the main characters, and even all of their friends, felt refreshingly authentic and real. there wasn't any forced teen speak, and the inner monologues of both main characters was fun to listen to. i think there was room for more conversations about privilege, but i had so much fun with this and generally enjoyed myself, so i won't complain too much.

MORE ALEXENE FAROL FOLLMUTH YA. NOW.