{"id":7170,"date":"2016-05-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2016-05-05T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:45:38","slug":"unexpected-everything-by-morgan-matson-book-review-summer-plans-poof-woof-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7170","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Everything, by Morgan Matson (book review) – summer plans? poof, woof & wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>She’s got it all planned:
\ninternship, great college, med school…
\nuntil step one is revoked!<\/p>\n

Andie loves her checklists, her plans to become a doctor, her best friends – and sticks to short-term boyfriends.<\/p>\n

Then her fancy internship<\/a> gets yanked away, her politician father is suddenly home from DC, she lands in a summer job<\/a> far outside her experience or comfort zone, and she meets Clark…<\/p>\n

Happy book birthday week to The Unexpected Everything<\/em>!\u00a0 This is a great summer read, like Matson’s Since You’ve Been Gone<\/em>\u00a0 (my no-spoilers recommendation here<\/a>) and Second Chance Summer\u00a0<\/em> (more here<\/a>) with less road trip, but just as much self-reflection and heart.<\/p>\n

What do you do when a perfectly crafted plan falls apart?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0The Unexpected Everything \/ Morgan Matson. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [author video<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: When problems at her congressman father’s office cause her pre-med internship to vanish, Andie is forced out of her structured life of success checklists and into a summer job as a dog-walker (never had a dog), wanting to stay around new guy Clark (never mind her 3-weeks-only rule for boyfriends), and trying to keep her best friends in sync as an outside relationship threatens to dissolve their group.<\/p>\n

A world-famous author in their midst?
\nDad home in Connecticut all summer instead of away in Washington DC?
\nA long-time crush keeps his distance, or does he?<\/p>\n

An epic scavenger hunt, bridging the father-daughter gap 5 years after Mom’s death, emojis-only text message challenge, a committed relationship (wait! this is Andie we’re talking about…) – such an unexpected summer before senior year!\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She’s got it all planned: internship, great college, med school… until step one is revoked! Andie loves her checklists, her plans to become a doctor, her best friends – and sticks to short-term boyfriends. Then her fancy internship gets yanked away, her politician father is suddenly home from DC, she lands in a summer job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[90,22,4,55,11,45,20,223,5,37,16,18,40,44,46,43,39,49,184,179,224,15,21,73,35,3,8,61],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-books","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-connecticut","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-pets","tag-politics","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}