Love
and Other Words
Reviewed
by Valerie Palmer
This is
by far my favorite book by Christina Lauren even though I have read quite a few
of their books. It has also been quite popular on BookTok and some of the
people I follow have read it and highly recommended it. If you like books by
Lucy Score or Tessa Bailey then you will enjoy this book.
Summary
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.
What I
Liked
I loved
how this book went into past tense to tell us Elliot and Macy's history and how
their friendship flourished as they became teenagers. I enjoy stories that go
between past and present tense so I can see the full picture of their
relationship. I liked how they kept the reason the two of them had not spoken
in so many years a secret until about three quarters of the way through the
book. This was such an incredibly cute love story and was more believable
than some of their other books.
What I
Didn't Like
There were a few characters in the book that I did not really like that much.
Macy's fiancé seemed to be a bit of a loser and he was basically with her to
just be with someone. I also thought that Elliot and Macy reunited a bit too quickly and
started hanging out regularly again after being apart for so long.
Rating⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
I gave this book 4 stars on Goodreads, but it truly deserves a 4.5 star. I believe it deserves all the hype it has been given. I highly recommend this book and Christina Lauren as an author if you are looking for a lighthearted romance book.
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