A review by bury
The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne

1.0

1.5/10. This book made me very angry. This girl learns that her dad is the Republican nominee for president and she just accepts it??? A much better book would have been her struggle to forgive her mother for not telling her she had a father, because I find it hard to believe that she spent her entire life not caring that she didn't have a dad and didn't care who he was. Instead, she joins a presidential campaign before asking herself if she supports the policy? She grew up in California with a mom who owned a soup kitchen--she was obviously liberal. Add that to the fact that she just finished AP gov, so she obviously had a lot of exposure to the modern political scene. But no, it is more interesting to have her "fall in love" with a completely one-dimensional character whose only character trait is that he loves the main character from the beginning for no reason. And of course all the presidential aides hate her! The amount of unprofessionalism in this book was infuriating--this is a presidential campaign for the United States!!!! Everyone would be in perfect order. No one would quit with a month remaining in the campaign or punch someone because they said something rude. And the president wouldn't have his mind changed on an issue because he talked to one person!!!! Of course he already has all the information on the topic of immigration! This dude represented the United States Republican party and basically had a mid-life crisis and decided that it just wasn't meant to be, letting down literally everyone. In trying to "humanize" him, the author just made him look naive and stupid. Anyway, this book gets 1.5 stars because I was so mad at the book that I couldn't put it down.