Flat-Out Love – Jessica Park
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This one passed the sample chapter test! That’s a new thing I’m trying out so I don’t end up reading such crap. I’ve had a lot of strike-outs lately. Anyway, after the sample chapter I was forced to buy the book. ($3.99 on Kindle, people, buy it!) Although the pop culture references bugged me (Lady Gaga, Facebook, Mac, etc), and I can see myself getting annoyed by the extremely big words people use (people don’t TALK like that!), the whole Flat Finn thing? I HAVE to know what’s up with that.

So, since Michelle has implied that I didn’t give enough info about this book, I guess I’ll add a little summary here. So the main character is headed to college in a new city, and her housing falls through, so she ends up staying with an old friend of her mom’s. The kids in the family are thus: oldest brother who is off in Africa or something doing charity work, middle brother who’s a big fat geek, and youngest daughter who’s extremely weird and carries a life-size cardboard cutout of the oldest brother with her everywhere she goes. And then Hilarity Ensues! Well not really but I did LOL a few times.

I really liked this book a lot. (Michelle, read it!) The one thing I can’t excuse is the language used. You know how the only critical comment anyone can ever find to make about John Green’s books is that teenagers don’t talk like that, with the huge SAT words and the philosophical conversations? Yeah, it’s like that. Like John Green on steroids, only without the charm. It was distracting throughout the entire book (except for Celeste because her formal way of speaking was part of her character, of course). Otherwise, the story was adorable, I loved the characters, and although the big reveal at the end was something I knew was coming from the first page, I think it worked.

Also, this book counts for 2011 toward The Completely Contemp Challenge! I am not doing so well on that so far!

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