Geek Charming

Great read!

This book was awesome! Such a fun read and I could not stop reading it until I was finished, unless I had to stop for whatever reason.
Geek Charming is a cute entertaining read about Dylan, a stuck up popular girl who owes this "geek" Josh a favor (there's of course more to this). He wants to be a film maker and in order to get into USC he needs to have a film. That's where Dylan and her two best best friends come in. Josh and Dylan end up having to spend more and more time together in order to get this film done. They both have their reasons for being involved in the making of this film but in the end, who knows what will happen. :D
This book is not predictable, so don't go thinking that you know what will end up happening in the end, because you're probably going to be wrong, surprised and happy about it especially since there is such a great message behind it.
I'll admit that I had a problem with the fact that the popular girl was so stereotypical, but I overall I can let that slide because it definitely did not get in the way of me enjoying the book or liking Dylan.
The narration in this book alternates between Dylan and Josh's POV so the reader really gets in the mind of both of the protagonist. I gotta say I loved knowing what each of the characters were thinking about certain situations. I also loved the funny things each characters said. I found myself laughing out loud at certain lines, so of course I had to share some of them (read below for more).
I do not understand why it is that Robin Palmer's books do not have more fans. I love her writing. This book was a really great, entertaining, YA book. I highly recommend it. Next I'm checking out her other book when I get the chance (read way below for more about this).
Isn't that cover beautiful! I especially love those shoes. :D
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Movie

Disney channel has come upwith an awesome movie about this book I love it (:

4 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

Great book

This book was great...looking fwd to see the movie!!!!:D

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Amazing!

I loved the book and am so happy that it was turned into a movie! If you like this book, you will also enjoy Little Miss Red by Robin Palmer!

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Hey read this book

I have seen the movie and read the book. Its awsome dylan is just like me because iam a popular girl in my school. And everyone loves me. When i read this book i changed and if you are popular it could change you to be a regular girl. And if your not and your geegy there are geegy kids that change so anyone can read it they can read it for fun. I hope you like it:) :() ;) and if you like it tell me and write it to me on the review luv ya

3 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

Loved it!

Geek Charming is about breaking social boundaries in school and it has a sort of behind the scenes look at popularity. Dylan, the super popular girl, and Josh, the "geek", grow a lot in this book and I love the alternating chapters that switch between both of their view points. I really enjoyed it and Robin Palmer is a great author!

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Awesome

I loved it!!!! :)

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Awsome

So i lovedvthe movie so shold i get the book? Help meee plllleeeeaaaassssseeeee

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Rating: 3.5 The Low Down: Dylan Schoenfield is the popular p

Rating: 3.5




The Low Down: Dylan Schoenfield is the popular princess of Castle Heights High School. She has all the right things: the most popular guy, Asher, is her boyfriend; she has two best friends, Lola and Hannah, that are her perfect backups; and her father owns a shopping mall, so she has access to all the best clothes. Which brings us to her current problem: who can she talk into pulling her waterlogged designer purse out of the fountain at the mall?




Next thing she knows, there’s a boy literally at her feet. Well, he did trip over Lola’s bag, but still. He retrieves her purse in exchange for a promise to let him film Dylan and the other Castle Heights populars for a documentary he wants to make. Josh eats, drinks, thinks and sleeps film, and he desperately wants to get into film school at USC. Agreeing (with her fingers crossed behind her back), it isn’t until Josh shows up at her house because she won’t return his calls, and she sees him bonding with her father over (gross!) Neil Diamond of all people, that she finds she will be doing the documentary. Father's orders.




Dylan has a list of demands regarding what Josh can shoot and what he can’t (no shooting from the right), and once she has Josh’s cell number, she is always bombarding him with a barrage of “helpful” instructions and outright demands via text. This is going to be a long, long month for Josh. But what neither of them expected? They actually become friends. Josh is there for her in a way that Asher, Lola and Hannah aren’t. Then Dylan realizes that Josh would be the perfect boyfriend for someone - he just needs a little help in the clothing/grooming department, and, when he’s not talking about movies, he has some conversing issues. (OK, maybe the constant hypochondriac-ish behavior can get a little much, too.) He’s got a crush on someone; that much she knows. Can both Dylan and Josh get something out of their unconventional relationship?




All good things must come to an end, as they say. But some ends are completely unexpected. And some are completely right.




Best Thang ‘Bout It: Having just read Cindy Ella, I knew I was in for a fun read. If you have a tween/teen girl living in the house, then you might have caught the Disney movie that was based on Geek Charming. In the book, they certainly don’t downplay the fact that Dylan thinks other people are self-centered, but doesn’t see it in herself. Her slow awakening seems very real, and is equal parts sad and uplifting. Of course, this isn’t just about Dylan’s realizations; Josh is stuck in his film geek existence because that’s where he feels the most comfortable. He, too, has to realize that there’s more to life than spending all of his time in a movie theater or in front of the TV watching films. He has to live his life.




I absolutely, both-thumbs-up, love the ending to the story. (Don’t read any more if you don’t even want a whiff of what goes down.) So real, so perfect. If it had been done any other way, it would have totally negated anything that either of the main characters had learned over the course of the book.




The Bottom Line: A fun, sweet book that will warm the very cockles of your heart. Or whatever is the 2000s version of cockles.




Geek Charming by Robin Palmer was published February 5, 2009 by Speak. Ink and Page picked this book up from the library, so no one had a choice about whether it was reviewed.




Genre: Young Adult Fiction Contemporary Romance
Ages: 12 and up
You Might Want to Know: Some underage drinking

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

??????????

Today i saw the first have of the movie and thought it was a humungous load of both of my dogs diahrrea. Hows the book? I bet its just as terrible as the movie

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Ugh

Book and movie suck.

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Miss Bliss

Ive only seen the movie n it was awesome! I read the sample n it was 2! I highly recommend this book bcause dylan is the most popular girl at school but that changes cause she came face 2 face with a geek, Josh! Miss Bliss out ;-

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Saw movie

It is so good.

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Cool

Didnt disney channel make a movie out of this?

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I can relate

Theres tthis realy popular girl on the cheer squad ar school and shes so rude to everyone... she does whatever she wants when she wants... i wish she was smart enough to read or watch this movie so that shed see its not aboiut being popular its about being true to yourself

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Liked this? Try Gallagher Girl series by Ally Carter.

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Awesome Movie!!!!

The Disney movie was really good! But the sample of the book that I got kept repeating!!!!:( It would have a couple pages then randomly stop in the middle of the sentance and I would be rereading the same couple pages over again!!!! This happened to me 3 or 4 times!! Don`t be fooled... even though the sample says it`s 50 pages, it`s only 50 pages of repetition.

The sample kept

The sample kept repeating the same parts? What?

Rate

4.5

He is so cute

How did they turn out to be a couple. The every thing but the kitchin sink sundae is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!