Love And Other Words By Christina Lauren

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Everyone needs to read this book! Stop what you’re doing and buy it if you haven’t already! Macy and Elliot are just the type of friends you want to have when you’re growing up. Macy growing up with such tragedy and finding a forever friend in Eli, it’s just amazing to read. All of their first are meant for one another, it just really touched my heart when they reconnect years later. They love is truly magical.I need a second book 😭 this book is unmatched i could not put it down for the life of me 🫶

I could not put this book down, I loved it. It has everything, romance, intrigue, drama, favourite words, sadness, emotion, tension and pace. I enjoyed the way the story was told in the past and the present, the reflection on the relationships involved and the characters. CL describe feelings so well and develop this story perfectly.

Wow. This was a good story. The writing was incredible and I finished the whole book in one day ( yes, I am a Elliot).
There’s just some holes in the plot that really don’t make sense.
Firstly, I am hugely against cheating so the fact that Elliot cheated pretty much just made everything after that a mute point. He did actually cheat right?? I’ll have to go back and reread and make sure. And I think that telling her that he thought it was her the whole time is just such a line… I get where he’s coming from but I didn’t forgive him. Also, the fact that he never found out about her dad or managed to contact her sooner… Like really?? I find it super hard to believe that his loving parents who thought of macy like a daughter and who spent a ton of time with her dad and Macy wouldn’t have hunted down what happened to them when they suddenly never showed up again. And that whole family would’ve been at the funeral and helped her in a heart beat. It just doesn’t make sense for 11 years to pass. I think a year would’ve been more realistic to have passed before Elliot and Macy had a conversation. So good story, lots of angst, but in the end I just couldn’t relate to the whole forgiveness and undying love thing when he cheated and they hadn’t seen each other in so long..

This book is magical. So emotionally well written, the characters are endearing and relatable, their love is like no other. I’ve read hundred of romance, Macy and Elliot are by far the most beautiful couple I’ve come across !
Thank you Christina & Lauren for this masterpiece

I wasn’t expecting to love this book as much as I did but I couldn’t help but root for Macy and Elliot. The story has dual timelines. Macy and Elliot as kids growing up and in present day after ten years of not speaking to each other. As the pair grows closer in the past and reconnects in the present, the story has you rooting for their love and friendship the entire way and has you questioning what it was that drove them apart.

I love their honesty with each other and how unafraid, at least for Elliot, they are to state what they feel and mean and have it be “this is it” right from the beginning. So often characters (and lets face it, us as humans) keep our real thoughts and feelings to ourselves in fear of embarrassment and such and from the beginning of Macy and Elliot meeting as young kids there was an honesty that was so refreshing and, I think, made for deep friendship between the characters.

I loved the back and forth timeline. I always seem to like the ‘then and now’ in books as it really captivates your attention and makes you hooked on what happened and this book does it well. I loved seeing their relationship grow as kids growing up and I also loved the present day interactions and wondering just what happened and still rooting for them anyway. I liked how the characters had redeemable qualities and not so redeemable qualities that made them on a whole more believable as characters.

The only negative, and why this book is 4.5/5 and not 5/5 is the climax of the novel. I won’t spoil it but when we finally find out what drove them apart I was expecting it to be more Macy focused and while it was, there was a side to Elliot’s story that surprised me and I feel like it could have and should have been explored more, especially between two characters that don’t hold back with each other.

Overall I adored this book and would recommend to others.

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