📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Love and Other Words
AUTHOR: Christina Lauren
@christinalauren
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: April 10, 2018
I am still a fairly new Christina Lauren reader. I enjoy her books generally. This story was cute, and that’s pretty much all I can say about it. Honestly these 2 characters were meant for each other so the story itself kinda seemed extraneous. There is a dance between Macy and Elliot, a will they/won’t they back and forth. And while the reasons why they won’t are slightly tragic, it wasn’t enough to necessarily make this as riveting as I would have liked.
However, if you are a lover of romance books or contemporary books solely driven by relationships, this is definitely the book for you. It is well written and endearing, with a sweet ending.
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Small Summary:
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.
*****
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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