Harriet Manners knows a lot of things.

She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. What she isn't quite so sure about is why nobody at school seems to like her very much. So when she's spotted by a top model agent, Harriet grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Even if it means stealing her Best Friend's dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in front of the impossibly handsome supermodel Nick. Even if it means lying to the people she loves.

As Harriet veers from one couture disaster to the next with the help of her overly enthusiastic father and her uber-geeky stalker, Toby, she begins to realise that the world of fashion doesn't seem to like her any more than the real world did.

And as her old life starts to fall apart, the question is: will Harriet be able to transform herself before she ruins everything? Geek Girl is fantastic. It's so so funny. I loved the relationship between Harriet and her parents, and how her dad and step-mum bickered all of the time. It was like reading my own parents and I loved it.

I read each and every kooky fact out aloud to my other half. He usually hates it when I read out passages of books but with Geek Girl he even asked me what the most recent interesting fact was.

Harriet's creepy stalker was a bit unbelievable, but on the whole this book was so real you could almost believe every word.

And Wilbur was just a bit too much. He was too flowery, too garish. While the same thing worked for Gail Carriger's Lord Akeldama, it didn't work so well for Wilbur. It was endearing, it was just annoying :(