Ok, if you have the opportunity to see the movie version of this from Disney please go and see it NOW! The movie is MUCH BETTER than the book. Yes, I know it was based off the book, but I still stay by my opinion. (I'm watching the movie right now) Anyway, the reason why I strongly detest this book is because-------

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{also, just for easy reference: Dylan is a girl. Josh is a guy}

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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 g More...

Geek Charming by Robin Palmer is about a girl named Dylan who is at the top of the popularity chain. Dylan makes Regina George look like Eleanor Roosevelt. Anyways Dylan makes a promise to let Josh, one of her geeky classmates, make a documentary about her and the other popular people.
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I thought I wouldn’t like this book, just because I hated the cover. I picked it up off the shelf because I absolutely love fairytale re-tellings. And…this book really ended up being enjoyable, far beyond my expectations.

It is such a humorous story right away when it starts, mostly poking fun at extreme girlie, popular girls (unless it wasn’t, and I was just taking it that way). And I, as a huge nerd/geek lover, immediately loved Josh, the “frog,” who saves from a fountain the expensive handbag More...

well... i just started this book and im at the part where Dylan dropped her purse in the fountain at the mall so she is almost nearly about to have a heart attack over this $1,000 purse so she is asking every one for help but they are all looking at her like she is crazy.......But she later then sees a boy who is willing to help but makes a deal with her that cleary states if he helps her she has to let him video tape her and her friend for a class project but doing all of this commotion she is More...

I have read this book like 6 times I'm so serious. It's on my bookshelf and I can't get enough of it. It's pretty much my book for when I need a cheerer-upper. It's the classic story of high school Miss Popularity Dylan and loser Geek Josh. It's a hilarious (Although the ending is not what it seems) book that goes into the life of two total opposites...who just may end up being best friends for life. I first watched this on Disney Channel and fell in love with it. Surprisingly I loved the ending More...

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 lit More...

Are you a fan of the Cinderella tale ? Out of all the fairytales does Cinderella ring favourite for you ? I have always been a Cinderella girl and I also love renditions of classics and fairytales , so when I saw this book I just knew I had to read it. Geek Charming if you watch Disney Channel may be a story that you have already heard of as it is based on the film of the same name. Geek Charming takes us into the world of Dylan Schoefield , rich and popular and the Queen Bee - her father owns t More...

This juicy, gossipy book is a fun and safe alternative to some of the more salacious books out there for teens to read. Without swearing and sexual references, Geek Charming follows spoiled Dylan Schoenfield, the most popular girl at Castle Height’s High. When the unaware and selfish only child loses her “it” bag in the mall fountain during one of her drama queen rages, she sends asthmatic, geeky Josh Rosen in after it. As reward, she promises to let him film her so he can create a documentary o More...

I read this in less than two days, it is a fun and fast book. I was actually looking for 'Little Miss Red' by Robin Palmer, but I'm glad I read this one. Geek Charming takes place at a high school (and a mall) in CA. It kind of reminded me of last season of 90210. There was a popular, rich, blonde girl (naomi-like, before the yoga retreat), in CA (LA and Hollywood), and a geek (like that one guy)- the similarity stops there. Dylan was at the mall one day and her Serge Sanchez bag fell in the fou More...

I thought after the disastrous Little Miss Red, I would give Robin Palmer one more chance to woo me with her writing. I am sad to say she failed. Again.

Though not as bad as Little Miss Red, this one didn't catch my attention very well, either.There was so much going on in this book! And the writing! She went over the top trying to make Dylan preppy and popular, popular she got, preppy not so much. It all sounded so fake.

The characters were okay, though not very well developed. I wanted to hur More...

Dylan Schoenfield is the most popular girl in Castle Heights High school. Josh Rosen is a film geek. So what happens when Dylan accidentally tosses her bag into a fountain and Josh makes a deal with Dylan, that if he could film her, then he’ll help; and when he does help, he doesn’t even get a thank you! This would be the start of Robin Palmer’s Geek Charming.
Palmer’s book doesn’t have the typical girl meets boy, girl and boy dislike each other, and then girl and boy fall in love story line. Ins More...

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So, I've been reading fairy tale re-tellings this past week and I've recently finished Geek Charming by Robin Palmer. It is a modern day re-telling of The Frog Prince and is the basis of the Disney Movie with the same title. Anyway, I am officially a fan of Robin Palmer. The story is told in alternating POV's from the two main characters, Dylan and Josh.



Okay, I do have to admit something. Dylan kinda' pissed me off in some chapters. She was just too self-cent More...

I just didn't connect with this book and ended up abandoning it. At least part of it was that I didn't like Dylan. She's self-absorbed and kind of stupid and dotes on a boyfriend who is an obvious jerk. Her interests are fashion and how she looks in/with/around fashionable things. Seriously, this isn't something to build a character on. Also: as a fan of Clueless, if you're going to reference the movie, you might take a hint or two from it and make your leading lady be about more than herself an More...

I have a thing for fairy tale re-tellings, and I had read her other two, so I picked it up. Then it sat on my shelf. I cannot believe it took me so long to get to this book, it was amazing, in my opinion it was the best book she's written.

It starts out funny, when Dylan drops her $1,000 dollar purse into a fountain at the mall. Since it is so vital to her popularity that she get it back, she starts demanding people jump in and get it for her. She ends up getting a "geek", Josh who is the "frog" More...

Summary: Film geek Josh agrees to rescue the most popular girl Dylan’s purse from a fountain in exchange for her cooperation in the documentary he wants to make about the popular kids at their high school.

Review: This was okay. Truthfully, I probably would have stopped reading it if my 1-year-old daughter hadn’t been asleep in my arms and I didn’t have another book handy to read instead.

It wasn’t bad writing, but I didn’t really care about the characters. Especially Dylan, the popular girl. She More...

Because I had watched the Disney Channel movie before I read the book, I thought I was already spoiled as far as the plot was concerned. Thankfully, I found that, though there were some obvious similarities, the book was much different... and a lot more realistic to teen life. Though I am no longer a teen, I do remember the insecurities and pressures of it. I was never the popular girl that Dylan was but I still related to her most "un-diva" moments.

Being born, raised, and still living in L.A., More...

I really liked this book, it was a fun read. It's a cute story about a rich, popular girl named Dylan and she is at her favorite hang out spot, The Dell, when she was talking and flung her arms in the air and her $1,200 red leather purse fell into a fountain. She started to freak out but then she found some geek, Josh, to go it for her. He at first didn't want to do it because he said he had asthma and he would get sick by going into the fountain, but then Dylan just pushed him in and he fetched More...

I surprisingly, actually liked this book, after I got past the fact that in the beginning Dylan is a snobby Beverly Hills girl who is selfcentered and only cares about fashion and popularity. In this book after a film geek named Josh saves Dylans bag from a water fountain, Dylan agrees to let josh film her for a documentary on popularity. At first they can't stand eachother. But then they start to get to know eachother, and we find out that Dylan isn't all that bad. Dylan also learns that popula More...

This book by Robin Palmer is an amazing book. It is about this popular girl, Dylan Schonfield who don't like this guy named Josh because he is a geek. Dylan only hangs out with popular kids at school. It all happens like this. One day, Dylan drops his bag in the water fountain and he was asking people around the mall to help her but no one did. Then this guy named Josh said okay if she only could act for his film for college. Then she agreed. Josh climb down the water fountain and pick up her ba More...

I admittedly only read the first chapter and the last few chapters of this book, but I think it was enough to tell that it wasn't worth reading the whole thing. The main character, Dylan, is extremely annoying, and I really hope not realistic. (As I have no idea how spoiled popular rich girls think)I stopped reading at the first chapter because I just could not stand her airhead narration any longer. Later I decided to read the last few chapters in the hopes that she got better. Unfortunately, e More...

Geek Charming
By Robin Palmer

Dylan is the reigning queen bee at Castle Heights High. She sits at the top of the popular ramp in the cafeteria. She is dating the popular UFC-obsessed surfer, Asher. Dylan is incredibly wealthy and is living the L.A. life to the fullest. Just like it only takes a spark to ignite a forest fire, one small event in Dylan’s daily life switches the course of Dylan’s ultimate life plan. While having a bit of a drama queen moment, Dylan lobs her rare, expensive Serge Sanc More...

Rarely in my book buys will I include young adult novels intended for girls, but this one of course was a serendipitous purchase. Along with “The Ashleys” by Melissa de la Cruz, I might count this as only one of the two young adults for girls for this year, though the way I enjoyed the work might sway me otherwise.

Initially, you’d think of the book along the lines of stereotypical; the blurb doesn’t hide that. Dylan Schoenfield is your typical “biatch” girl straight out of chick flicks, with a More...

Dylan is the most popular girl in her school. Josh is a huge film geek that does not think about appearance too much. One fateful day Dylan's super expensive purse ends up in the fountain at the mall and she recruits Josh to go in and save it by making a deal: he is allowed to make a documentary about the inside workings of the popular crowd. When Dylan decides to break this deal Josh goes to her house to try and persuade her but ends up talking to her father who basically makes her do it. Josh More...