A review by brandece1
The Upside of Falling Down by Rebekah Crane

3.0

This book has been on my KU TBR for a while, and I was looking for something quick and something with audible narration. I have read two amnesia books this year, and I would say that this one was my favorite of the two, but it was just okay at the end of the day. I will say that I enjoyed the premise of this look and I loved seeing Clementine getting little glimpses of her life. I loved Clive as a side character. I am from Ohio so I loved the the heroine was from Cleveland. I feel like all the things she says about Cleveland were 100% things a Clevelander would say. I am real confused on if this book is considered YA or if it is adult. Both MC are adults so I assumed it was adult, but the reviews I've read about it say its YA. So with that said I will say that as far as the romance between Clementine "June" and Kieran it was okay. It felt rushed. On Clementine's end I get it. She doesn't know who she was and who she left behind, but on Kieran's end I felt like he rushed into this thing knowing a lot more than he let on about and it seemed too much for me. I was really enjoying this story (not as a romance) up until the last 30 or so percent. Then a lot of the storylines started to drive me nuts, then there were parts of the end that I did enjoy but ultimately it felt like it was a "tied up in a nice bow" for me. This book seemed to me more like a coming of age story with a "romance" included, than an actual romance.