Like the rest of the family, she's smart, but she's also funny in her own way.

She has her issues and definitely adds some awkwardness to situations, but her intelligence and dialogue are what really make her a favorite of mine. My favorite of the book is probably Celeste. The characters definitely made for an enjoyable read. It'd be great if this was what's going on.' I was impressed by just how much thought had to go into making this story work with the complicated back-story, the unique and dysfunctional Watkins family, and coming-of-age growth that Julie's character went through. I don't want to read it now' and much more 'Could this really be the situation? I NEED to know. It was less of 'wow, I figured this book out. While I was able to make strong assumptions of the outcome, early in the novel, it was the journey to the actual reveal and confirming/disproving my assumptions that might have been the best part. This story really stood out to me as an original and enjoyable read the whole way through. It was hard to put down and very easy to get back into a steady reading pace the few times I had to put it down. 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 was a great book for me to have picked up.

To Julie, the emotionally scrambled members of the Watkins family add up to something that … well… doesn’t quite add up. 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. That’s because Finn is traveling the world and surfacing only for random Facebook chats, e-mails, and status updates.

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.Īnd there’s that oldest brother, Finn: funny, gorgeous, smart, sensitive, almost emotionally available. The middle child, Matt, is an MIT tech geek with a sweet side… and the social skills of a spool of USB cable. The parents, Erin and Roger, are welcoming, but emotionally distant and academically driven to eccentric extremes. When Julie’s off-campus housing falls through, her mother’s old college roommate, Erin Watkins, invites her to move in. 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. Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. It’s not what you know-or when you see-that matters. 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.

Flat out love by jessica park