Love and Other Words
Books | Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy
4.2
(18.5K)
Christina Lauren
After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s touching, romantic novel Love and Other Words…how many words will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong?The story of the heart can never be unwritten. Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her. Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.
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Author
Christina Lauren
Pages
432
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2018-04-10
ISBN
1501128027 9781501128028
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"If I could give this book more than five stars I would do so without hesitation! This is one of the best second chance romances I've ever read! It was so sweet and incredibly emotional! The writing was beautiful, the plot amazing, and I loved the main characters! Elliot and Macy were so sweet, and soooo good together! I 100% recommend checking this book out!"
"The writing was okay. However, the plot was out of my comfort zone for two reasons.
- The main love story takes place when the characters are 14-16 years old. So, it was uncomfortable to listen to them talking about the nasties and such. It felt like eavesdropping on hormonal teens’ GC conversations. No thank you.
- In the present timeline, there is this tension on whether the mc should leave her fiance to get with the love interest or stay in the relationship. Although the author repeatedly mentioned how the fiance and the mc met two weeks ago, and the relationship lacks chemistry, it still felt like emotional cheating… The love interest literally broke up with his girlfriend as soon as he met the mc because he knew he still had feelings. I felt like that should’ve been the case with the mc considering even her friend was rooting for the mc and love interest.
DNFed (50%)"
"this story was cute but way overrated. I enjoyed the storyline but I realized i’m not a fan of the childhood best friends to lovers trope. "
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"such a cute book! it was hard to put down and when I finished, I wished it was longer. the constant flashbacks were a big part of the story but I liked them because it helped you really understand the book better. both main characters were likable although there were a couple things they did that you wish wouldn’t have happened. I loved how honest Macy and Elliot were with each other and even if they wanted to lie, they couldn’t because they knew each other too well. The extra ending was… okay, not great but Elliot’s pov was interesting and I was glad to read that everything worked out in the end. "
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