DNF - I've been more interested in reading other books and this book just hasn't captured my full attention, so I think I'm going to give up on it. It's not a bad book by any means and if I read it at a different point, when I had less books that I actually want to read and need to get to before goi...
3.5 stars
Set in 1942, in the grip of World War II, the story follows Iris Anderson, a fifteen-year-old girl with a mind for sleuthing. Following her mother’s tragic suicide, Iris is uprooted from her private school and her cushy apartment on the Upper East Side of New York, landing in a public school and liv...
this was fun
For me, tried too hard to be the hard-boiled 40's mystery novel. Failed to connect to the protagonist and some of the lingo was going to drive me batty. (This is also a problem with some 40's films so not an isolated issue of this book.) No one really seemed worth rooting for or caring about their p...
I like my mystery detectives to be like Sherlock or Poirot. Those all-knowing eyes seeing the littlest clues in the most unlikely places. Or, for them to be like Jacques Clouseau, an utter clutz that still manages to solve the mystery by pure luck. The problem I had with The Girl Is Trouble is that ...
4 chocolate no bakes.Cover Love: Yes, I like this. The model looks very 40's-ish!Why I Wanted to Read This: I really enjoyed the first book in this series, The Girl is Murder and wanted to continue on with the series.Read the rest of this review here.
4 frosted shortbread cookies.Cover Love: Yes. The font and the girl do a good job conveying the setting and time that this book takes place.Why I Wanted to Read This:There is a second book coming out in this series which is what prompted me to get this one read. I also wanted to see if it was oka...
Although this is a somewhat predictable mystery, I really loved it. The author really draws you into the time period...the 1940s during the war. We as the reader get to experience food shortages, war bonds, the black market, the life of a New York stage actress, and the slang of the '40s. I reall...
This young adult book was a nice change of pace. I became totally caught up in the time period of the story. 1940's New York came alive....the people dealing with the effects of WWII, the 1940's slang, zoot suits, and dancing at the Savoy in Harlem. I really hope this is the start of a new series...
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