Geek Girl series – Holly Smale

Deer Reeder,

Book chronological order is from the bottom to finishing the series at the top.

I’m just going to do something I haven’t done for this blog yet, and that is to review a series rather than an individual book. The reason for this is that it’s summer so I’ve got more time on my hands to lose myself in the fabulous world of books and it saves everyone time and effort as you don’t have to read 6 reviews talking about the same thing. How forward thinking of me!

Anyway, so the Geek Girl series, what to say…? Well, first off, I thoroughly enjoyed it actually. I haven’t read true young/teen fiction in a while and it was surprisingly nice to view the world from more innocent eyes. It always made me chuckle how the main protagonist, Harriet Manners, wouldn’t swear but would choose to say Sugar Cookies instead. Mind you, I don’t think the F word would go down too well within a book that has a recommended reading age of 11+!

In spite of this wonderful innocence I forgot and was repeatedly reminded of, what usually accompanies this characteristic; OH MY GOD, I have never read such a first person narrative from such a naive person! At points it almost had me screaming at the book saying “What are you doing? Why do you think that is a good idea?” However, despite these bouts of shear bewilderment at the psychology Harriet, I also loved the character as well. Kinder the same way you love your sibling I guess, they’re annoying but you wouldn’t wish an ounce of harm on them. Repeatedly, Harriet would misjudge a situation, body language or an overheard conversation and create a thought which is so looking at the wrong end of the stick that she properly is in fact holding another stick entirely! Let’s just say that she is book smart not people smart.