Title: The Upside of Falling Down
Author: Rebekah Crane
Publisher: Skyscape
Publication Date: January 30, 2018
Source: ARC from the Publisher
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?
Rebekah Crane is the author of The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland and other young-adult novels. She found a passion for this genre while studying secondary English education at Ohio University. She is a former high school English teacher, a yoga instructor, and the mother of two girls. After living and teaching in six different cities, Rebekah finally settled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to write novels and work on screenplays. She now spends her days tucked behind a laptop at seventy-five hundred feet, where the altitude only enhances the writing experience.
The two main characters, Clementine and Kieran were both amazing. Clementine was really bold (sometimes to the point of over-stepping social boundaries) and, after the first little bit of awkwardness, Kieran was everything you could want in a male lead. There was great strength and depth in both characters, but even so, both were very close to being eclipsed by the supporting cast. Stephen, Clive, and even Siobhan each in their own way help Clementine get to the root of who she is inside.
Because this is a story about a girl who has lost her memories, her family relationships were not really explored, but at the end, once you find out about the twist, you can look back and see indicators throughout the story. Also, that twist? I was not expecting it and it helped to solve many of my feelings and the questions that had been plaguing me, so, 'Bravo, Ms. Crane.'
I had a lot of fun reading The Upside of Falling Down. Thank you for this entertaining story about a girl who needed to lose herself before she could begin to find herself.
4 out of 5 stars
Sir Sly - &Run
"Happy, but a little lost
Well, I don't know what I don't know
So I kick my shoes off and run."
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