Flat-Out Love #1

"Ele era alto, pelo menos 1,80, com cabelos loiros sujos que pendiam sobre os olhos. Sua camiseta dizia “Nietzsche é o meu garoto”.
Então, esse era Matt. De quem Julie Seagle gosta. Muito. Mas há também Finn. Que ela ama.
Complicado? Estranho? Completamente.
Mas, realmente, como esta recém-transferida estudante de Boston e caloura da faculdade deveria saber que ela acabaria vivendo com a família de uma velha amiga de sua mãe? Isso tudo deveria ser temporário. Não estava previsto Julie ser tão importante para os Watkins, nem se apaixonar pelos irmãos Matt e Finn. Especialmente Finn, que ela nunca viu pessoalmente. Mas isso realmente importa? Finn a entende como ninguém nunca o fez antes. Eles têm uma conexão.
Mas esse é o caminho do amor, em todas as suas estranhas mudanças, ele sempre coloca algumas curvas. E ninguém escapa ileso."
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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.

Ficção / Línguas Estrangeiras / Romance