

There are enough heated scenes, for me, and plenty of sweet ones too. Both of these things are very much intertwined in Macy’s story, so it only makes sense that they’re equally represented in the novel.

It not only focused on the heroines love story - but also the major losses that she had faced throughout her life. However, I worried for nothing because I was quickly hooked by Love and Other Words.įor those that might be nervous about what to expect from Love and Other Words, to me it just read like a slow burning contemporary romance novel. I’ve rarely ventured into the genre and wasn’t sure how different it may be from Christina Lauren’s contemporary romance novels. I’ll be honest, when Christina Lauren announced they were publishing women’s fiction I was a bit nervous. ‘Love and Other Words’ by Christina Lauren review: 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.
