First Love Language

Catie Carlson’s senior year was going to be a well-deserved success.  Her family had struggled since her dad passed away.  Then her stepmother, whom she loves, decided that their best option was to move to Salt Lake City, Utah to temporarily live with her sister’s Morman family.  In addition to abiding by strict rules, Catie needed to get a job.  Luckily, she lands a job that she loves and begins a friendship with a co-worker that drives the narrative.  She’ll teach him how to get the girl crush he’s had for years while he’ll teach her how to speak Mandarin, which is her father’s native tongue.  As Catie tries to figure out who she is in this new city, she constructs a small web of lies along the way.  While stressful for Catie, a reader knows from the beginning where this is going to end up.  In fact, the final ending happens so fast, it is as if an editor emailed the author to wrap it up quickly.  The beautiful cover will sell this book, and most readers will make a quick read of it.  This is an additional purchase for school and public libraries.