Review: Going Geek by Charlotte Huang
SYNOPSIS:
A girl forced out of her comfort zone finds that being true to herself is the best way to live her life, in this second novel from the author of For the Record.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Skylar Hoffman’s senior year at her preppy East Coast boarding school should have been perfect:
amazing boyfriend
the coolest friends
the most desirable dorm
But it’s far from it. To her dismay, Skylar’s not going to rule senior year because she’s stuck in Abbot House, a tiny dorm known for, well, nothing. Living with a group of strangers everyone thinks is lame is bad enough. Worse is that Skylar wasn’t exactly truthful about how she spent summer break in Los Angeles—and her little white lie is causing her once rock-solid romance to crumble fast. And when it turns out that Skylar’s best friend is the one responsible for having her booted from Lincoln? It’s an all-out war.
Stepping out of her comfort zone never felt so scary—or necessary. But everything is different now. Including, maybe, Skylar herself . . .
REVIEW:
*Book Received in Exchange of Honest Opinion/Review*
This book was extremely close to being DNF-ed, but I decided to continue reading and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this story. At first, Skylar was annoying, pretentious, self-centered, and egotistical. I was appalled by her behavior, hence the almost dismissal of this story. But I gave it a little longer and Skylar not only redeemed herself but blew me away in terms of character growth.
Skylar’s “friends,” well lets just say I understand where her terrible attitude and treatment of people came from. It has been a while since characters got so under my skin. I forgot how catty and awful girls in high school really are. I can totally relate to the struggle Skylar was having in finding herself. When you ‘lose’ your identity, what is left? Who are you when everything you hold dear is stripped away?
In the Abbot house, the girls are unique, playful, accepting and exactly what saved the story. Between these girls and Declan, I couldn’t put the book down. But mind you, I had to be patient to get past the first 100 pages to find the goodness. After that I was dying to see how things would play out.
In a fun turn of events, Skylar’s journey of re-evaluating her life leads her to something far better than what she previously had. Skylar’s personality does a complete 180, which was badly needed. It ended up being a light-hearted read that left me with a smile on my face.
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