Friday, December 14, 2012

12 Days of Christmas: Day 3- Flat Out Love by Jessica Park





Last night I bought a little gem I have been eyeing for a while now. I haven't had the chance to read it yet, but I am hoping to get to it this month. 

On the Third Day of Christmas all I want is Love!


Flat-Out LoveFlat Out Love by Jessica Park
April 11th 2011

 

Flat-Out Love is a warm and witty novel of family love and dysfunction, deep heartache and raw vulnerability, with a bit of mystery and one whopping, knock-you-to-your-knees romance.

Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. And Julie Seagle, college freshman, small-town Ohio transplant, and the newest resident of this Boston house, is determined to get to the bottom of it.

When Julie's off-campus housing falls through, her mother's old college roommate, Erin Watkins, invites her to move in. The parents, Erin and Roger, are welcoming, but emotionally distant and academically driven to eccentric extremes. The middle child, Matt, is an MIT tech geek with a sweet side ... and the social skills of a spool of USB cable. The youngest, Celeste, is a frighteningly bright but freakishly fastidious 13-year-old who hauls around a life-sized cardboard cutout of her oldest brother almost everywhere she goes.

And there's that oldest brother, Finn: funny, gorgeous, smart, sensitive, almost emotionally available. Geographically? Definitely unavailable. That's because Finn is traveling the world and surfacing only for random Facebook chats, e-mails, and status updates. Before long, through late-night exchanges of disembodied text, he begins to stir something tender and silly and maybe even a little bit sexy in Julie's suddenly lonesome soul.

To Julie, the emotionally scrambled members of the Watkins family add up to something that ... well ... doesn't quite add up. Not until she forces a buried secret to the surface, eliciting a dramatic confrontation that threatens to tear the fragile Watkins family apart, does she get her answer.

Flat-Out Love comes complete with emails, Facebook status updates, and instant messages.




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12 comments:

  1. I've read so many good things about Flat Out Love. Dying to read it! Thanks for the chance.

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  2. I read this through prime and it ended up being my favorite book of the year! So thank you in advance -- I really want to win!!

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  3. I loved this book!!! The twist was something I had suspected, but was still surprised!

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  4. Thanks for the review...I'll check this out!

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  5. Thanks so much! The book sounds really cool

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  6. I am not crazy about the cover and almost skipped over the post, but once I took the time to read the synopsis I am eager to read Flat Out Love and find out what the mystery is :) Thank you for the lovely giveaway opportunity.

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  7. This one sounds great!

    Thanks so much!

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  8. You're having the awesomest giveaways this month, just in time for the holidays. You rock! Thank you!

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  9. I've never heard of this one before!
    Thanks for the giveaway~
    Lilian @ A Novel Toybox

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  10. Ahhh! I so need to read this book. You're awesome for hosting so many giveaways! Thanks so much, happy holidays :)

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  11. Adding this to my TBR list! Thanks for the review!

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