Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words is a contemporary romance told in alternating Then and Now chapters that braid eleven years of Macy Sorensen's life. As a kid, Macy and her father drove out to a Healdsburg cabin every weekend to escape her grief over her mother's death, and there she met Elliot Petropoulos, the bookish boy next door who became her best friend and eventually her first love. Years later, Macy is a pediatric resident in San Francisco, engaged to a perfectly nice older surgeon, and she has not spoken to Elliot since one disastrous night when they were eighteen. When she runs into him at a coffee shop and the two of them tentatively begin to fill in what happened, the novel slowly walks the reader back through the warm, language obsessed friendship that defined them and toward the misunderstanding that ended it. The book is one of the more emotionally serious entries in the Christina Lauren catalog.
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Macy and Elliot were childhood best friends and almost more, until something unspoken cut their teenage years in half. Eleven years later, they run into each other in a Berkeley coffee shop, and the past comes back.
Love and Other Words contains some explicit on-page content but is restrained by Christina Lauren standards, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The emotional weight comes from the dual-timeline grief structure.
Love and Other Words contains some explicit on-page content but is restrained by Christina Lauren standards, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The emotional weight comes from the dual-timeline grief structure.
No. Love and Other Words is a standalone, separate from Christina Lauren's Beautiful Bastard series and other connected works. Each of their later novels stands on its own.
Love and Other Words was written by Christina Lauren, published in 2018 by HUGO POCHE.
Love and Other Words is 304 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Love and Other Words takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Love and Other Words is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.