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Brianna, My Brother, And The Blog (2009)

by Jack Weyland(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1606411403 (ISBN13: 9781606411407)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Deseret Book

review 1: Read it in a day--easy and fun. I've always enjoyed Jack Weyland, one of the first good LDS novelists for teens. However, when I read this novel after years of not reading a Weyland, I realized that they are sort of like screen plays--lots of dialogue and not a lot of scene setting or action. They are also romances from a masculine viewpoint, which is intriguing. This one particularly, is about a boy falling in love with his brother's girlfriend; she's waiting for him to come back from his mission. Awkward. As Austin becomes her friend, he learns a lot about what some of the jerky things guys do without realizing how they are impacting the girls they are dating. Austin is roped into writing a blog as advertisement for a friend's auto body shop, and he ends up turning it in... moreto advice to guys about how to be a better friend to the girls they date. The humor is great, the insights are pretty good too, and although it's probably girls who will read the book, the guys would benefit from the blog advice from "Steve-O from Schenectady."
review 2: I thought I'd already reviewed this, but it appears I haven't. Really lame return missionary brother. Jack Weyland seems to be about two or three decades behind in his perception of LDS reality. The cultural circumstances on which he bases some of his characters are really outdated. I think he should have quit writing while he was ahead, because now he's just perpetuating some 'bad things' that the prophets and apostles have worked so hard at weeding out. (Think: your mission being the ground for meeting someone to marry, etc.) They've raised the bar, kiddo. Things aren't what they used to be. The LDS church I'm 'growing up' in is strikingly different and more diverse and culturally aware than the LDS culture Weyland writes about. I'm done with his writing for good. Too bad, for I remember liking 'Charly' and 'Sam' and others. I'm curious if the 12-year-olds of today like his writing, or if they find him old and inaccurate as well. less

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