Publisher:
Harper Collins
Release
Date: 26th
September 2013
Edition:
UK paperback,
review copy
Other
Titles in this Series: Geek
Girl
Harriet
Manners knows a lot of facts.
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Humans have 700, 000 thoughts per day.
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Caterpillars have 4,000 muscles.
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The average person eats a ton of food per year.
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Being a Geek + Model = a whole new set of graffiti on your belongings.
But
clearly she knows nothing about boys. And on a whirlwind modelling trip to
Tokyo, Harriet would trade in everything she’s ever learnt for just the
faintest idea of what she’s supposed to do next...
Oh, I do love this series. And Harriet.
And the whole Manners family. And Toby. I just loved Model Misfit, okay!
I fell in love with Harriet’s
geeky tendencies once again; they’re just what appeals to me in a person. Bullet-point
lists, obscure facts, social anxiety, clumsiness and a magnet for trouble:
Harriet has it all. I love her. There were a few moments early on in the novel
where her childish-ness niggled me slightly, but I soon got over it because
everything else about her is just so endearing and relatable. I completely understood
her feelings of being pushed out and replaced by the impending arrival of the
new baby, her crazy reactions to Nick and her struggle to make friends.
Model
Misfit took
Harriet to Tokyo and a flat with two other models. I immediately feel in love
with Rin. Her mangled interpretation of English, her physical impersonation of
a Manga character and her strange approach to friendship; she’s adorable. Her love
for Australia is also a nice, unusual addition; England or America is usually
the obsession!I think she’s someone that Harriet desperately needs in her life
and I really, really hope she makes further appearances in future books in the
series. Poppy, however, nope. The modelling world really doesn’t seem that
great. Constantly being surrounded by achingly beautiful girls would be very
bad for my health...
Holly Smale sent my emotions
all over the place. I lost count of the
number of times I snorted with laughter and repeated particularly funny things
to my cat (shh, you do it too). My heart ached for Harriet when things when
wrong, I got angry on her behalf and then I finished Model Misfit with smiley heart.
Harriet and her madcap adventures
have captured my heart and I’m already excited for book three. Holly Smale has
a winner on her hands here.
Thanks to Harper Collins for
the review copy!
Sophie
I love Harriet so much! She is so funny and annoying and so very sweet!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you enjoyed it, Sophie! I'm reading it at the moment and have fallen in love with the world- and Harriet- all over again. There's just something so magical about it.
ReplyDeleteGreat review!