A review by dennasus
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

5.0

I didn’t expect to enjoy and love this one as much as I did! It’s a typical “Young Adult” novel, which didn’t stop me reading it though, because I try to ignore those kind of labels anyway. Main character Andie, had big plans for her summer, which completely fall apart, when her father, a senator is involved in a political scandal.

There are many stories about politics and scandals on TV and in books, but these stories are rarely told from the uninvolved bystander point-of-view, which made this one interesting. Another part of the story hit almost too close to home sometimes, because I could so well relate to Andie, who had lost a parent when she was a young teen and had a hard time talking about it to her friends or anyone, because the same thing happened to me and I reacted the same way. Sounds depressing, but the story really isn’t. There also was a handsome and surprisingly successful young writer and lots of cute dogs.