Love and Other Words, Christina Lauren
Love and Other Words, Christina Lauren
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Love and Other Words

Author: Christina Lauren

Narrator: Erin Mallon

Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2018


Synopsis

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.

About Christina Lauren

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners/besties Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced thirteen New York Times bestselling novels. They are published in over 28 languages, have received starred reviews from Kirkus, been selected as one of NPR’s Top 100 Swoon-Worthy Romances, and won both the Seal of Excellence award and Book of the Year from RT Magazine.

Lauren Billings has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and before she made writing her full-time job, would spend her days doing nerdy research-type things wearing a lab coat and goggles.

Christina Hobbs used to spend her days in a junior high counseling office surrounded by teenagers. These days you’ll probably find her on tumblr.

Both are married with children and always joke that Christina steals Laurens shoes.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jay on January 27, 2022

no review, no rating, have a nice day fine i lied me from two days ago: yooooooooo!!! this is kinda painful????? the heartbreak??? the angst??? could this be… a new favourite????? me now: lol, anyway. my favourite thing about reading this were my updates for the first 60% where I was clearly enjoying m......more

Goodreads review by Gabby on April 27, 2018

Yikes.... I guess I'm in the minority here with my opinion, but I did not enjoy this one. If you know me, you know I LOVE Christina Lauren, I consider them one of my favorite authors, but this book was just so meh. This is their first "women's fiction" novel, even though I don't know how this is dif......more

Goodreads review by Ayman on November 01, 2021

BRUV WTF !?!? HOLY SHIT THE THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD!! ok y’all i’m telling you, childhood best friends to lovers to second chance romance to lovers is such an under appreciated trope!! fuck !! i loved this book ! it was so beautifully written, it felt very lyrical, and vivid. perhaps my favorite part a......more

Goodreads review by jessica on August 11, 2021

its been said that beautiful things dont ask for attention. and oh, how humbly beautiful this book is. it is also simple, but its an elegant simplicity. the story itself isnt flashy; it doesnt rely on gimmicks or beg for the reader to notice it. it is just a quiet story about boy and a girl who grew......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on September 15, 2024

4.5 I loved this. Elliot is a new favorite for me. The throwback chapters in the closet…to die for. I’m not sure if I should feel weird for how intensely I swooned over a romance between two teenagers but 😍… I can’t help but be depressed that I never experienced anything like that. Also surely Elliot......more