I finished reading Geek Girl a few weeks ago and
it is now one of my favourite books! I was hooked from the start, did you know
cats have 32 muscles in each ear, well neither did I until after I had
read this book! The thing that I found so interesting about this book was that
the author had based her book on what had happened to her. I enjoyed the book
since I am a model and It was really interesting to see what her experience was
and it was realistic with her family life and social life, she wasn’t living a
life of glamour. I thought the main character Harriet was very interesting
because of her geeky personality. Harriet is a geek, she knows facts nobody
else knows and has serious trouble making friends, apart from her best friend
who is actually the very opposite of Harriet. Her best friend has wanted to be
a model since she was six and everyone had told her she looked like one, since
then she had dieted and read through fashion magazines practiced walking and
everything else a model needs, even though they are opposite they are best
friends, this is a relationship I find particularly interesting in the
book. Geek Girl reminded me of another
book I have read called “The Look” by Sophia Bennet, which is also about
modelling and in both books, both girls find out that they dislike modelling. I
think the title of the book is effective because you think it would be about a
geek at school but once you’ve read the blurb you realize it’s about a geek
girl who gets accepted into a top-modelling agency and is going to be huge in
the fashion industry. The book made me think about modelling and the reality of
it. It’s a tough industry, all about how skinny you are and how well you
photograph and it’s not actually a life of glamour like most people think.
Overall I think it was a entertaining and just great book which I would read
again.
