Sarina Bowen

Tragedy brings seventeen-year-old Rachel into her rock star father's glimmering world for the first time. Can they become a family? Or is it seventeen years too late?

The Accidentals

Megan Lowe

Wow. This book was emotional, but it was great. I loved the storyline. It had ups, it had downs, it had angst. It had everything you needed. I would have, however, liked a bit more confrontation. I think everything, and there were some heavy subjects, that really needed an explosive confrontation.
I liked Jake and Aurora, they were great lights.
Frederick started out great for me, then majorly skipped in my opinion. The way he went about things just didn’t sit right to me. I know it’s symptomatic of how he always handled things, but after how he was at the start, it didn’t sit well with me.
Rachel was strange for me. I couldn’t get a read on her, which may have been the point, but I found it frustrating. There were so many times I wanted her to rage and instead she whimpered. I wanted a strong female lead and Rachel wasn’t it. I know she’s been through some stuff, but her anger could’ve stiffened her. Angry Rachel needed to make a bigger apparence.
At the end of the day though, this was a solid book, if not quite everything I was wanting.

A Young Adult Novel

Becky

I went in expecting one thing and then got something totally different. I thought this would be way more music focused and be more dramatic but it was actually this really lovely book about family and what it means to have family and about trust. 

I enjoyed it and I'm glad I finally got to reading. It was not what I expected but was what I wanted to read without realising.

Candyce Kirk

4.5 stars

I loved this book and am really sad it's over! My full review will be on thebookdutchesses.com tomorrow!

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I was so freaking excited to learn one of my favorite authors, Sarina Bowen, was publishing her first young adult book, The Accidentals. Of course, I'd be lying if I didn't also admit I was a wee bit nervous. What if I didn't enjoy her YA books as much as her new adult and adult books? Could I stand the disappointment? Well, I had absolutely nothing to worry about. Really, I should've known better than to doubt her for a second. The Accidentals was perfect. It's one of my new favorite books from Sarina's catalog — and from 2018 as a whole so far.

Over the last couple years, I've really scaled back on the amount of YA I read for a number of reasons. (None of which I'll get into here. Ha!) But, when my favorite authors release a new book, I can't pass it by. The Accidentals is the type of book that makes me realize why I loved YA so much in the first place. It also makes me want to reconsider how frequently I read YA books. This book had all the things I expect from Sarina — amazing characters, gorgeous writing, swoons, feels and laughs. I'd have read it from cover to cover in one sitting if not for pesky adult obligations like work.

I loved Rachel. Man, that girl put me through it all. I had so many feelings. I loved her journey to get to know her father and, you know, find out a little more about herself along the way. There were so many special little moments during this book — none of which I'm going to tell you about right now because, you know, spoilers — that pushed The Accidentals from a good book to an amazing book. Though I'd never been through the situations Rachel has, I was right there with her, experiencing all the emotions, heartbreak, happiness and even falling in love for the first time.

The Accidentals was a perfect coming of age story. It did SO MANY THINGS to my heart. Of course, it wasn't without a super freaking swoony romance. *sigh* The love story in this book made me happier than I can even explain. The Accidentals is the type of book it's best to just experience, knowing as little about it as possible before you go in. There are also some fantastic secondary characters who I mostly greedily hope get their own stories in the future.

Sarina rocked YA contemporary. I hope she writes more in the future. Of course, I'd pretty much read her shopping list if she published that, but that's beside the point. ;)

I received a complimentary copy of this book for review consideration. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

FAVORITE QUOTES

My entire experience with boarding school is reading Harry Potter books. What if the sorting hat puts me in Slytherin? Are the elves friendly? Is potions class as hard as it looks?

Isn't it true that everything we see in the night sky is really a million years old, or something? That's a comforting though, actually. Lately my life is happening at warp speed, when I wish it wouldn't.

Our relationship is like an experiment gone awry. Maybe my father and I will never be able to hear each other properly, because so much of our beginning was sliced off and thrown away.

"Every month I mailed a check, and every month she cashed it. And those months, they turned into years really fast. If you have a child you've never met, every year it gets a little easier to tell yourself that the kid is better off without you."

The Accidentals

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