Christina Lauren - Love and Other Words review

I really enjoyed how the past and the present intermingled to tell the reader Elliott’s and Macy’s story. These two people had a friendship and love they had never experienced with anyone else.  Christina Lauren writes in such a way that the reader feels for these characters on a deep level.  I was 1000% invested in their journey.  Macy hadn't had an easy life. She was dealing with a great loss when Elliott came into her life. They got each other and clicked from the first moment they met.  I loved the younger versions of them as I was learning who they had become.  As their story of their past got closer to what was happening in the present day with them, I thought I had an idea of where their journey would lead. BOY! Was I wrong! Be still my heart! I wasn't prepared and this book made me cry!  This was a sweet, powerful, emotional journey and I can't love it enough! I HIGHLY recommend this book! 

**ARC provided by NetGalley for my honest review**

Love, loss, friendship, and the betrayals of the past all collide in this first women’s fiction novel from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren (Autoboyography, Dating You / Hating You).

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.