Geek Charming

Robin Palmer

Feb 2009 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

The ideal L.A. fairy tale for fans of Once Upon a Time and L.A. Candy!
Inspiration for the Disney Channel TV movie, Geek Charming!

Dylan Shoenfield is the princess of L.A.'s posh Castle Heights High. She has the coolest boyfriend, the most popular friends, and a brand-new 'it' bag that everyone covets. But when she accidentally tosses her bag into a fountain, this princess comes face-to-face with her own personal frog: self professed film geek Josh Rosen. In return for rescuing Dylan's bag, Josh convinces Dylan to let him film her for his documentary on high school popularity. Reluctantly, Dylan lets F-list Josh into her A-list world, and is shocked to realize that sometimes nerds can be pretty cool. But when Dylan's so-called prince charming of a boyfriend dumps her flat, her life--and her social status--comes to a crashing halt. Can Dylan--with Josh's help--pull the pieces together to create her own happily-ever-after?

Ratings and reviews

I absolutely loved this book! Palmer's writing is hysterical and her knowledge of the old movies from the 80's (The Breakfast Club, my personal favorite), gives this story a lot of heart. A mixture of the snobby Prom Queens and your typical high school Geeks, this story is like stepping into a John Hughes film. Dylan's diva-like, dramatic, funny attitude is something you'd find in The Clique series, about how the fashion-obsessed mean girls clash to become the most popular princesses, or even in Pretty Little Liars (which I just started watching, it's awesome!) Josh, on the other hand, offered me so many movie titles I didn't even know about (such as The African Queen and Annie Hall), and the way how he's portrayed makes you feel like you just stepped into the movie Weird Science (another one of my favorite John Hughes movies), where the teen Geeks who desperately want to become popular step into a world where no person has dared to go before, except in this book, Josh and his buddies didn't create a girl with their computer to increase their seemingly pathetic social standards, they made a movie about how Prom Queens and Film Geeks may be different, but are kind of the same. The mentioning of Neil Diamond songs was also impressive (Sweet Caroline is my favorite Neil song; I never knew that before!) I was laughing especially at Dylan's diva-like personality, the way how she was so obsessed over popularity, I started thinking "Popularity really IS over-rated!" LOL! I'm gonna start watching the movie as well, because it includes Pretty Little Liars actress Sasha Peiterse, The Troop's David Del Rio (where he himself plays a geek, too, ironic, isn't it?), and Matt Prokop, who guest-starred once on my favorite show Good Luck Charlie where he played a geek as well! Robin has GOTTA make a sequel for this thing! Just like The Clique book, I ah-dored it!

My son is the fan of disney!! So i let him get the book.

Great book! I also loved the movie. It was very interesting.

About the author

Robin Palmer grew up in Massachusetts and New Jersey, and graduated from Boston University before she hit the road for Hollywood. Starting as an assistant in the television literary department of the William Morris Agency, she quickly moved up the ranks and spent the next decade as a literary agent, producer, and television network executive at Lifetime Television, where she developed over one hundred scripts and oversaw the production of over thirty of the cable network's original movies. In 2001, she remembered that she had originally intended to spend her life either as a writer or a toll booth collector (so she could indulge her penchant for spending her days alone reading), but as there are no toll roads in southern California, she decided to give the writing thing a try. Since then, she's written everything from screenplays to essays to a novel to a preschool guide. Although she's constantly threatening to move, she currently resides in New York City.