Bri Meets Books http://brimeetsbooks.com Bri Ahearn. YA blogger, writer Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:22:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 DOON Cover Reveal http://brimeetsbooks.com/doon-cover-reveal/ http://brimeetsbooks.com/doon-cover-reveal/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:53 +0000 bri http://brimeetsbooks.com/?p=2006 Today is the official cover release for DOON (a new young adult series), based on the concept of Brigadoon. To celebrate YA Books Central is giving away a signed ARC (Advance Reader Copy) and a custom charm bracelet made by the artisans of the Kingdom of Doon. Click over to find out more about the gorgeous cover and to enter the rafflecopter.

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One of the authors is a friend of mine and I’m so excited for this book!

 

 

]]> http://brimeetsbooks.com/doon-cover-reveal/feed/ 0 New Era http://brimeetsbooks.com/new-era/ http://brimeetsbooks.com/new-era/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:40:25 +0000 bri http://brimeetsbooks.com/?p=1997 I’ve entered into a new era in my career. I quit my job and I decided to work for myself. It’s been two weeks and I’ve written several things for people, including SEO posts, press releases, etc. I’m doing better than I thought I would my first two weeks and I’m working on a series of ebooks. I hope to start recording that journey like other blogs I admire. This should be fun.  So watch this space, because I’ll be blogging about my first ebook soon!

]]> http://brimeetsbooks.com/new-era/feed/ 0 Update on My Life! http://brimeetsbooks.com/update-on-my-life/ http://brimeetsbooks.com/update-on-my-life/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:29:16 +0000 bri http://brimeetsbooks.com/?p=1975 I’ve been at my marketing job for over 6 months, and I think I’ve picked up quicker ways to blog faster and more efficiently. I was running 15 blogs at my job, but that’s a little less as we changed our approach, and I want to pick up blogging again. I’m going to try to pick up my non-reviewed books.

So here’s an update of my life..

  • Got married in December in NYC
  • Started a podcast on the show  Once Upon a Time
  • Got a new kitten, Belle
  • I started freelance writing

 

]]> http://brimeetsbooks.com/update-on-my-life/feed/ 2 A Very Not Exciting Announcement That Might Not Come to a Surprise to Anyone http://brimeetsbooks.com/a-very-not-exciting-announcement-that-might-not-come-to-a-surprise-to-anyone/ http://brimeetsbooks.com/a-very-not-exciting-announcement-that-might-not-come-to-a-surprise-to-anyone/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:52:44 +0000 bri http://brimeetsbooks.com/?p=1961 Well first, I got a JOB! A marketing director job! A forty hour a week job! I tell you, from 2007 to 2012, the years of this blog, they have been a whirlwind. My degrees and moving..and meh.

And for the time being, since I do a lot of blogging etc at my new job (and social media and writing and excel ) I’m not very into blogging books. I’m into reading for fun and writing for fun and then tumblring or whatnot. I am into playing tennis to relieve stress. I’m also developing a claw from too much PC use, hah!

So I’m going to be on a mini hiatus.

Mini hiatus, activate!

 

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Iris Anderson has won the standoff with her father, and he’s agreed to let her be a detective at his struggling detective agency one on condition: he’ll teach her the methods.  Then not one, but two, cases fall on Iris’ plate. She uncovers evidence indicating her mother’s may have not committed suicide as previously thought, and Jewish students are finding anti-Semitic letters in their locker at her school.

Iris Anderson returns in this follow-up to The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines.  When we last saw Iris, she had just helped solve the case of a missing fellow student. Now she’s a little older and a little wiser. All the elements I loved from the first book return: New York, the period slang, and some side characters.  I’d put The Girl is Trouble as a bit more noir than its predecessor but just as enjoyable.  Once again I thought this book moved at a good steady pace, and definitely kept ramping up the action.

I love the main story – the mystery of Iris’ mother’s death. It had me guessing the entire time I was reading, and there were times I drew the completely wrong conclusion. I’ll always love a mystery that stumps me.  The subplot of the anti-Semitism was well-done and I think it was so strongly done it could’ve stood alone as a separate novel, however, Haines has elements of both subplots intertwine and echo each other, which came together in a brilliant way.  And at the core of the novel is Iris trying to reconcile her faith and beliefs.

There’s a nice side romance, something I can always take or leave in a non-romantic YA, and it distract me from the plot.  I was very surprised by one romance.  I was pleased to see Susie come back, but the best character of all is New York in the 1940s.  I simply eat up every bit of detail evoking the time and Kathryn Miller Haines is so good at dishing them out.

You can read this The Girl is Trouble without reading the first book, but I recommend it, especially to see Iris’s character transformation. Trouble  keeps you guessing as Iris winds her way down dark alleyways and abandoned streets searching for the truth about her mother and the note-leaver.  Get it Veronica Mars fans!

Copy for review provided by the publisher.

Title:  The Girl is Trouble
Author: Kathryn Haines
Level: YA
Date:  July 2012
Pages: 336
Publisher: Roaring Brook
Format:  Hardback

This review comes to you as part of the The Girl is Trouble blog tour run by The Teen Book Scene! Be sure to visit all the stops on the tour!

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