He is in love with Macy, like he is been in love with her since they were kids. I mean, who says exactly what they’re thinking? What kind of game is that?” You get to meet Elliot who is so straightforward, I would have to insert one of Kelly’s from the US The Office famous quotes about Darryl: “Darryl Phillips is the most complicated man that I’ve ever met. Chapter one literally leaves you questioning everything you just read and wanting to learn more about it.

I gave Love and Other Words 4 out of 5 stars in the Then There Were Books review book.įrom chapter one Love and Other Words captivated me. Macy and Elliot are the kind of couple that makes you want to shake them and scream: “you are perfect for each other stop over thinking this!” I completely fell in love with the story. 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.

As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. 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. 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. 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.īut when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos-the first and only love of her life-the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. The story of the heart can never be unwritten. It’s about growing as a person and the difficulties of first love and finding who you are.īut before I tell you all about this amazing story, I should let you read the synopsis, so here it is: Love and Other Words was such a different story to what I’m used to from them (I have literally read most of their books now), it describes hard subjects and it’s more than about second chance love. They are so freaking amazing and Love and Other Words just reiterated how awesome their books are. I’m on a freaking roll reading books by this amazing duo Christina Lauren.

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