Flat-Out Love (Flat-Out Love, #1)
by Jessica Park
Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park holds a highly rated rating of 4.01 out of 5, based on 47.6K reader ratings. First published in 2011. The book spans 389 pages.
About Flat-Out Love
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.It's not what you know—or when you see—that matters. It's about a journey.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.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Author | Jessica Park |
| Published | 2011 |
| Pages | 389 |
| Genres | Romance, Young Adult, Fiction, Chick-lit, Fiction |
| Average Rating | 4.01 / 5.00 |
| Total Ratings | 47,644 |
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What genre is Flat-Out Love?
Flat-Out Love is categorized as Romance, Young Adult, Fiction, Chick-lit. Its primary genre classification is Mystery & Thriller.
Is Flat-Out Love worth reading?
Based on 47.6K reader ratings, Flat-Out Love has an average score of 4.01 out of 5.00, which is considered "Highly Rated."
How many pages is Flat-Out Love?
Flat-Out Love has 389 pages.
Who wrote Flat-Out Love?
Flat-Out Love was written by Jessica Park. It was first published in 2011.
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