The Upside of Falling
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4.2 • 118 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A fun, flirty teen debut from Wattpad phenom Alex Light about a fake relationship and real love.
It’s been years since seventeen-year-old Becca Hart believed in true love. But when her former best friend teases her for not having had a boyfriend, Becca impulsively pretends she’s been secretly seeing someone.
Brett Wells has it all. As captain of the football team and one of the most popular guys in his school, he should have no problem finding someone to date, but he’s always been more focused on his future than who to bring to prom.
When he overhears Becca’s lie, Brett decides to step in and be the mystery guy. It’s the perfect solution: he gets people off his back for not having a meaningful relationship and she can keep up the ruse that she’s got a boyfriend.
Acting like the perfect couple isn’t easy, though, especially when you barely know the other person. But with Becca still picking up the pieces from when her world was blown apart years ago and Brett just barely holding his together now, they begin to realize they have more in common than they ever could have imagined.
When the line between what is pretend and what is real begins to blur, they're forced to answer the question: Is this fake romance the realest thing in either of their lives?
Customer Reviews
I loved it
It was a mix of sweet love and sadness of real life..I loved it
Steeped in the patriarchy
This books portrays the careful collection of small town cringe with the irony of “true love,” would not recommend this book to anybody who wants to read a nostalgic and sensitive romance but instead indulge in the oppression that is systemic sexism.
Cute book. Amazing characters
The love story was so sweet and charming! It’s rare to find a book where the main male character isn’t a douche, or a player who has a dark past or a sad back story, so reading this was very sweet and still sad. The male character had a loving family with great parents. he was kind, friendly, and funny and overall very charming and the way he fell in love with the main character was so pure. The main character was also the same but wittier and did have a sad past and it was very beautiful seeing her slowly open her heart up to him without even realizing it. Their romance really flowed nicely and nothing seemed too rushed. I loved how the story also touched on the topic of absent fathers, and how a parents marriage can really affect their children. Overall it was a very sweet, and sometimes sad, book. I highly recommend