How do you guys feel the title of The Upside represents the story?

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This was one of my problems with it. It didn’t present the Upside in regards to Molly. It was all whine and obsess over being single and alone until she was magically fixed by a guy. I also didn’t like how it made it seem like the only thing that was important about having a boyfriend was the ability to have sex. Really, it just seemed like sex and hooking up was the main focus of pretty much all the teens in the book. Just my opinion.

KaylaQuestion author

The only upside I saw was that she had never had to deal with rejection
But I dont know… lol

Jessica

That makes sense!

Lynne

But she did deal with rejection when it came to hipster boy. However they didn’t really have to draw out the crappiness of rejection because she already basically knew she wanted Reid and wasn’t into Will like she thought she’d be. (Will? mike? I can’t remember hipster’s name)

KaylaQuestion author

It was Will lol and I dont think she truly went through rejection with him because she was never really emotionally invested to get rejected
Like she like him and he was cute but it was more of a mutual we don’t want this

Jessica

I can’t remember his name because he was boring. Team Reid all the way.

KaylaQuestion author

#TeamReid

Jenny

I think she explains the meaning in the book. That the upside of unrequited love is that you wait forever but once you finally fall for someone who has mutual feelings, it’s a magical feeling or something. I don’t remember her exact words, but I remember thinking “oh, I guess that’s what the title means.” Lol

Jenny

It was towards the end of the book.

KaylaQuestion author

That actually makes great sense
I dont see how I didnt see that before

Jenny

Never mind, it was Nadine who said it. But this is when I was like “oh! That’s what it means” lol