Weyland: Five complete novels: Peppertide, A New Dawn, The Understudy, Brenda At The Prom, Kimberly

by Jack Weyland

Book by Weyland, Jack

Genres: Lds, Lds Fiction, Novels

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Jack Weyland is the best-selling author of young-adult fiction for the Latter-day Saint market. In fact, the modern genre of Latter-day Saint-themed popular fiction is one he is largely responsible for creating with his overwhelmingly popular novel Charly. His interest in fiction began with a correspondence course in creative writing taken during a summer at BYU where he was doing research work. Since then he has published more than two dozen books, and over fifty of his short stories have been published by the LDS Church magazine The New Era.

Born in Butte, Montana, Jack received a B.S. degree in physics from Montana State University and a Ph.D. in physics from BYU. Currently he teaches physics at BYU-Idaho. He formerly taught physics at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Jack and his wife, Sheryl, are the parents of five children and have four grandchildren. His hobbies include racquetball and singing.

Reviews

[Camela · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually only read The Understudy from the collection, but goodreads doesn't have it as a stand alone book, as I read it. It was a typical Jack Weyland book. Very predictable. But I still cried. How does he do that? I won't read it again, but it had some good insight into the life of Christ, as the main character is a man that has to play Christ in a movie production. But other than that, the characters are rather flat.

[Valerie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good collection of Jack Weyland stories.