You learn about her as she’s learning about herself and you come to care for her character even when she takes forever to come clean about the bet with Trevor. She was rough around the edges at the beginning but over the course of the book, you see her come out of her shell and find out who she really is and what she’s capable of. Jen was one of those kids that you can’t help but adore.

In this book, we get all of that and more.

She needed some guidance and a family and whether she knew it or not, she was dying for a family of her own and a place to call home. I mean, I went into this book thinking that I would get something cute and fluffy but what I got was a story about a girl who needed someone to be there for her. This book was a lot better than I was expecting it to be. Only thing is, instead of her bringing him to the dark side, he brings her into his world and she finds that she likes it in his world and wants to stay. In an effort to entertain herself and her friends, she bets her friends that she could bring the geekiest geek at school to the dark side. She drives people away by being hard to be around and her friends Beth and Ella aren’t really friends. She’s really goth and describes herself as “the freak”. She’s been burned far too many times and lived through some things that nobody should ever live through, especially someone as young as her and in an effort to deal with her life, she keeps people at arms lengths and never lets anyone get too close to her because she doesn’t plan on sticking around. Jennifer Jones is a bitter young teenaged girl who doesn’t think much about the world around her and the people in her life. This book follows Jennifer Jones as she becomes Jennifer Clark. I got this book for review on NetGalley but the publisher archived it before I got around to reading it but I bought it and read it and am so freaking glad that I did because I adored it. But when Trevor finds out about the bet, Jen must fight for the things she’s discovered matter most: friendship, family, and, above all, love. So on a whim, Jen makes a bet to turn Trevor, a goody-two-shoes geek, into a “bad boy.” As she hangs out with Trevor, however, she finds it’s actually kinda fun being a geek. Jen’s life of partying and sneaking out has grown stale. Author: Website| Facebook| Twitter| Goodreads

Geek Girl by Cindy C. Bennett