I am a sucker for stories where opposites attract; especially where the guy is a dork/geek/nerd and the girl is a bad-ass. This book is really cute for about half of it: Jen is a goth bad girl who falls for the "geek" Trevor. It is sweet how, while trying to convert him into a bad boy, Jen is the one who turns into a good girl. Her life has not been easy; she lives with a foster family and has learned not to trust people. That is, until she meets and falls for Trevor, who is the nicest guy ever. Or like Jen likes to say over, and over, and OVER AGAIN, a "geek, polite dork".
What I am not a fan is of stories where there is a wager involved: A makes a bet with her/his friends, about X reason where B is involved; with time, A falls in love with B, wants to confess but can't; and eventually, B learns the truth, is hurt, cannot trust A anymore (even though it is
obvious in a million of ways that A truly loves B) and they get separated.
Which happens in Geek Girl.
Which I thought it wouldn't, because Trevor is
such a nice guy (OK, he is, but he let me down with this behavior). And going out with the mouse, to make things worse.
Overall, starts good, cute-ish, but then it turns more dramatic and predictable. And the good characters (i.e., Trevor) turns to be MEH.
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Let's just say this:Had I not read Perfect Chemistry, Reason to Breathe, What I Didn't Say, Eleanor & Park, Nineteen Minutes - and many other contemporary realistic fictions about sad teenagers then I might have liked it. But I had read these books. So the only emotion running in me while reading this was been there, done that. This book is actually sad and heart-touching but nothing really new of different from other books of this genre. It had the whole i-don't-deserve-you and how-can-he-ever-fall-for-me clichés going on almost the entire book. So much that even my eyes hurt from rolling too much.And the characters. They were nice, likable but again nothing new. Again this had my whole meh frame of mind going on where I did not really care much about what happened as I was skipping off to the Happily Ever After that I knew would be there at the end. The book was also oh-so-predictable but with all the contemporary romance clichés at hand, that is almost obvious. And I was also a little pissed off about the legalities being screwed up and process being butchered but I got over it now.I think fans of heartbreaking contemporary romance will love this book. Me? Me thinks me needs something a little too different that the books I've already read. 2 Stars
