Geek Girl by Holly Smale

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.