Hi guys! Happy Wednesday! I hope you’re all having a great week so far! Today I’m going to be posting my review of Katie Kennedy’s novel Learning to Swear in America.

Learning to Swear in America by: Katie Kennedy: Yuri is a seventeen-year-old physics genius from Russia who is pulled from his home, transported to California to work for NASA as a large asteroid hurtles towards Earth. Using his expertise, he must come up with a solution to stop it, but he also still wants to be a teenage boy. Meeting Dovie and her family really helps with that as he learns the American social etiquettes. This novel had an interesting concept. It was definitely engaging and interesting, although some parts of the plot, mainly everything with Yuri and Dovie, were kinda strange and didn’t seem plausible. The fact that it seemed unlikely made this contemporary hard to relate to, but that doesn’t mean it was a bad novel. In fact, that’s what made it different. The title alone is strange and grabs the reader’s attention, the actual story is just as unusual and keeps the reader invested. The characters are a group of eccentric teenagers who end up together, who the reader would never think would end up together. They were developed enough, although, aside from the main character, they still felt a little two dimensional and could have been developed more. Overall, this novel was partly cute, partly funny, most definitely intriguing.