The Accidentals by Sarina BowenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Another triumph by Sarina Bowen.
Rachel is having a really bad Summer. Her mom died of cancer, her aunt doesn’t want her and she’s living in a group home. Even worse? She is at Summer school to retake the exams she missed through her mom’s illness. And then, like a fairy-tale the father she never knew, music legend Freddy Ricks (real name Frederick Richards) turns up out of the blue apparently anxious after seventeen years to get to know his daughter.
Despite having been Freddy Ricks’ greatest fangirl growing up Rachel is reluctant to let Frederick know that not only does she know everything about him (at least what’s been published) but that she has seen him in concert and is also a singer. Soon she is whisked away from her old life in Miami and her best friend Haze, first to Freddy’s home in California and then to an exclusive prep school.
This is heart-warming and sweet, it doesn’t shirk some of the issues teenagers face like sex, alcohol and bereavement but it treats them in a realistic and sympathetic way. I’m not saying that Freddy’s parenting skills are necessarily a gold standard but I love his take on drugs “Rachel, you know drugs are for assholes, right?”.
I think if your idea of heaven is being the secret daughter of a rock star and going to boarding school where you try out for the Bellas a Capella singing group then you will love this. I know I did, it’s part Cinderella, part Harry Potter, part Pitch Perfect and all glorious.
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