Emily

By Jack Weyland

Nineteen-year-old Emily Latrell has always been infatuated with her brother’s best friend, Austin Brunswick. But Austin is two years older than Emily and just home from his mission. He’s always had other girlfriends, and though Emily has grown up dramatically during his absence, she can’t imagine the handsome returned missionary having any romantic interest in her. Especially not after her tragic experience. Clearly, the attention that he pays her is the result of a promise he made to her brother, Jeremy, and she decides to give Austin the brush-off.
But it’s not that easy to change your heart.
Jack Weyland’s book about young love and overcoming adversity is filled with spiritual insight, fun, and romance. You’ll fall in love with Emily and wonder what it’s going to take for Austin to see the light. Theirs is a story you won’t soon forget.


Jack Weyland is my favorite LDS fiction writer. He spins a good yarn. This is one of my all-time favorites of his. I just read it again after not having read it since high school. I still like it and actually got a few very good ideas from it (spiritually speaking). I enjoy Emily’s transformation from young girl to young woman.
I’ve talked to others that enjoy reading Jack Weyland’s books, and they really don’t like this one. It’s mostly to do with Austin and his hesitance to date Emily because he’s worried about the way she looks. I found that it was truthful and I liked it. That’s something you worry about. You want to by physically attracted as well as emotionally. It’s just a factor. Again, great story, great characters, and wonderful message. You can pick up any of his books and fall in love with them. This is one of his better ones, and as time goes by he just gets better and better.

Brianna, My Brother, and the Blog

By Jack Weyland

Brianna needs a friend, someonw to keep her from being lonely while she's wiating for her missionary, Robbie, to come home. And who better for the job than Robbie's brother, Austin? He can keep the other men at bay while giving Brianna guy-type help, like hauling her harp around on weekends to play at wedding receptions.

Austin needs a friend too. And Brianna is the perfect choice since there's no romantic involvement-of course not, how could there be, she's waiting for his brother after all. As a friendship develops between Austin and Brianna, Austin is free to learn what it means to be "true and faithful friends" with a girl. He begins posting his findings in blog entries that quickly gather a following of interested readers. But what will happen to his friendship with Brianna when she finds out who the real author of the blog is? Because the truth is, Austin isn't looking for just a friend anymore, but something more. WIll he have the courage to tell Brianna the truth-before Robbie comes home?

You've gotta love Jack Weyland if you're LDS. He brings this all too real story to life with humor and a few shake-your-head moments where you are yelling at the various characters, "Oh no! Don't say that!" This story is one that people in the singles ward scene will enjoy. I mean, you've got the girl 'waiting' for her missionary, and the brother who feels deeply for someone who might end up becoming his sister-in-law! Weyland pretty much perfectly has the differences between guys and girls down in this book. I laughed my head off many times...though it could've been the late hour that I read it. I picked it up to just read a few chapters and I was hooked and finished the whole thing in one sitting and didn't even get tired. I honestly started crying I was laughing so hard at the last page. This was a great read for anyone who enjoys Weyland's down-to-earth style about life.

As Always, Dave

By Jack Weyland

Dave just got back from his two-year mission and heads to New York to talk the love of his life, Abbie, into coming back to Ririe Idaho and becoming his wife. What he finds definately wasn't in his plans. Abbie has gone on with life, and is currently taken. Desperate to win her back, Dave stays in New York and begins what is known as "the single life", going to the singles ward at church and living paycheck to paycheck, and trying to figure out the impossible-girls.
This novel is especially for young single adults who can't figure out why guys can't commit, and what girls do to make it harder than it needs to be. But most of all, it's about God's plan for all of us and how to find yourself.
I love Jack Weyland. He's awesome. Whenever I'm looking for a good LDS fiction book, he's the man I go to; and what self-respecting young single LDS female would pass up a chance to figure out the whole single-scene and dating stuff? This book was a little depressing, because I knew just what it was talking about and saw myself making some of the mistakes that the girls Dave dated were making, and I also doubted if guys really thought like Dave...but I think it's pretty accurate. All in all, I really loved to read this, because it's really close to my life at the moment and it gives me hope that even though I'm not model-material, or a genius, or anything uber-spectacular, I'm still special and one day a good guy is going to see it. I love warm-fuzzy books!