They agree to date for a few months, just long enough to satisfy the people around them, then they plan to part ways.īecca’s mother owns a bakery in town, and all she wants is for Becca to be happy. Neither Brett nor Becca is interested in dating for real, but when Becca’s ex-best friend teases Becca for not having a boyfriend, and Brett’s father pushes him to start dating, Brett and Becca decide to start a fake-dating relationship. After all, Brett’s dad gave up his dreams of playing college football to become Brett’s father at 18: The least Brett can do is live the life his father had to give up. Brett Wells, the handsome captain of the Crestmont High School football team, wants nothing more than to make his father happy. Ever since her parents’ divorce and her father’s abrupt disappearance from her life, Becca has decided to live out her romantic fantasies in the pages of books, specifically romance novels. Seventeen-year-old Becca Hart wants nothing to do with love. The version used for this guide is the ebook of the HarperTeen imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The Upside of Falling addresses the heartache behind divorce, friendship breakups, family expectations, forgiveness, becoming your own person, and taking a chance on love. The Upside of Falling might have started on Wattpad as a swoony teen romance that focused solely on Brett and Becca’s dating relationship, but by the time it reached its final form as a full-fledged novel, the story grew to tackle bigger and broader themes. Thanks to the team at Wattpad and their connection to HarperCollins, the final version of the novel was published in 2020 under its new and current title. When the story gained considerable attention-and over 40 million reads-Light was offered a book deal with HarperCollins Publishing. Light quickly gained a following for her short love stories, and The Upside of Falling was originally published on Wattpad under a different title, Rivals. The Upside of Falling is a young adult contemporary romance novel first published on the self-publishing website Wattpad in 2017 by Canadian author Alex Light.

The up side of falling