High School is hell; all who
survives it realizes that at some point in their life. I was attracted to this
book because I was curious as to how much technology and, I’d like to think,
advanced emotional and psychological growth, had changed being a teenager.
In this story, Skylar is looking
forward to her senior year at a preppy, East Coast boarding school. It’s going
to be the best. Year. Ever. She is going with one of the stars of the soccer
team; her friends are ultra-cool, and she’s in the best dorm.
As fate would have it, when she
arrives, Skylar has been transferred to another dorm…one off the beaten path of
all the socially cool events, and gasp, filled with geeks. Honest to god weirdos.
Her best friend drops her, and the
other girls follow suit. She lies to her boyfriend, which causes severe trust
issues. And it seems the geeks in her new dorm might, sort of, kind of like
her.
It turn out that high school hasn’t
changed at all since I graduated almost 50 years ago. This is a quick read, with fast-paced writing
and not an abundance of description.
Going
Geek gets 4 out of 5 stars in Julie’s
world.
