Title: The Upside of Falling Down
Author: Rebekah Crane
Publisher: Skyscrape 2018
Genre: YA Contemporary
Pages: 247
Rating: 4/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Ebook
For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission.
They tell her she’s the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she’s lucky to be alive. But she doesn’t feel lucky. She feels…lost.
With the relentless Irish press bearing down on her, and a father she may not even recognize on his way from America to take her home, Clementine assumes a new identity and enlists a blue-eyed Irish stranger, Kieran O’Connell, to help her escape her forgotten life…and start a new one.
Hiding out in the sleepy town of Waterville, Ireland, Clementine discovers there’s an upside to a life that’s fallen apart. But as her lies grow, so does her affection for Kieran, and the truth about her identity becomes harder and harder to reveal, forcing Clementine to decide: Can she leave her past behind for a new love she’ll never forget?
Random Prime Reading selection from Amazon that I finally started and finished all in about 36 hours. It’s a sweet romance couched in a finding yourself novel with an outrageous beginning. I really enjoyed Clementine’s search for self and the colorful characters she meets along the way. I was fully on board the story all the way until the last 20 pages or so. I even forgave a lot of the YA cliches. It’s a sweet YA story, I’m okay with some cheesy lines here and there. The way-too-coincidental ending and reveal knocked it down a star for me. Just no… Otherwise, I really enjoyed this one.
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